Chris
Auld (PhD, Queens) is an assistant professor in the Department
of Economics. His research interests are largely in the areas of
econometrics and behavioural aspects of health. In particular, he has
been working in the areas of infectious diseases, most notably the
AIDS epidemic in the US, demand for alcohol and tobacco products and
health and the labour market. Chris is an Alberta Heritage Population
Health Investigator and is a fellow at the Institute of Health
Economics in Alberta.
Gillian Currie
(PhD, Yale) is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics
and holds a cross-appointment in the Department of Community Health
Sciences. Prior to this, she was a post-doctoral fellow in health
economics, also at Calgary. Gillian has research interests in demand
for pharmaceuticals and the effect of marketing thereon, models for
funding prescription drug programs, and the theory and application of
techniques of economic evaluation.
Stafford Dean (MA, Calgary) is a health economist with the Calgary
Regional Health Authority, working in the area of health care system performance and planning. He is also a part-time PhD student in the
Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary, where he is pursuing his interest in the validation and use of patient
classification systems for health care resource planning.
Christine Kennedy (DPhil, Oxford) is currently completing a Queen Elizabeth
Fellowship in Health Economics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She will join the health
economics program at Calgary in May 2001. Her research interests include: economic evaluation
techniques for preventive health interventions (cancer prevention), WTP methods- revealed
preference vs. contingent valuation, economic aspects of access to genetic
testing/screening in US and Canada, and curriculum development for critical
appraisal skills in economic evaluations. She is involved in various economic
evaluations applied to mental health, bicycle helmet promotion, and decubitus ulcer prevention, and has completed work on the demand for
preventive care in sub-Saharan Africa (Tanzania) and alternative funding mechanisms for
academic physicians in Canada. She also holds an MSc in Community Medicine (Memorial), an MSc
in Economics (Oxford) and a post graduate certification in Evidence Based Medicine and Health
Care from Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.
Mingshan
Lu (PhD, Boston) is also an assistant professor in the
Department of Economics and holds a cross-appointment in the
Department of Community Health Sciences. She is engaged in research in
three general areas: (1) the organization and incentives in the health
care industry; (2) the economics of designing incentive-based
contracts for publicly-funded health services; and (3) the economics
of mental health and substance abuse treatment. Mingshan is an Alberta
Heritage Population Health Investigator and is a fellow at the
Institute of Health Economics in Alberta.
Braden Manns holds a MD from the
University of Toronto (1994), is a specialist in Nephrology
(University of Calgary, 1999) and practices part-time nephrology at
the Foothills Medical Center in Calgary.
He is currently completing a MSc in Health Economics from the
University of York, England and is working as a research fellow in the
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary.
Research interests include the methodological aspects of
economic evaluation for treatments designed for patients with
end-stage renal disease. Economic
evaluation of hemodialyser reuse and other aspects of care of dialysis
patients are being undertaken. He
currently has funding from the Kidney Foundation of Canada and the
Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research.
Craig Mitton
is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Health Economics Program, based
in the Dept. of Community Health Sciences, at the University of
Calgary. His thesis research is focused on priority setting and
resource allocation within health authorities. In particular, he is
studying the application of an economic framework called program
budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA). He holds a M.Sc. in Health
Research, also from the Dept. of Community Health Sciences, and has a
B.Sc. in Biopsychology from U.B.C. Craig is currently working closely
with three health regions in southern Alberta pertaining to the work
on priority setting, and as well has broader research interests in
economic evaluation and health technology assessment. Current projects
include assessments of Influenza A rapid viral testing, pulmonary
artery catheters, home parenteral therapy clinics and severe and
persistent mental illness. He is also an active consultant for the
Alberta Consultative Health Research Network (ACHRN). His Ph.D. is
funded by the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research.
Larissa Roux finished her MD at
the University of Alberta in 1996, and completed residency training in
family medicine at the University of Calgary in 1998. In 1999, she was
awarded a Masters degree in Public Health at the Harvard School of
Public Health, in the stream of Clinical Effectiveness. Currently,
Larissa is pursuing a 3-year clinical fellowship in Sport Medicine at
the University of Calgary, along with a doctoral thesis in the
Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary.
Her PhD thesis project centers on the development of a decision
analytic model to evaluate alternative treatment strategies in
moderating obesity.
Alan Shiell (MSc - Econ, BSc -
Hons) is an Associate Professor in Community Health Sciences and has
recently joined the health economics program from the University of
Sydney (Australia) where he was a Research Associate and founding
member of the Social and Public Health Economics Research Group (SPHEre).
Prior to this he was Senior Lecturer in the Department of Public
Health and Community Medicine at the University of Sydney and Deputy
Director of the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE).
He has over 16 years experience in the UK and Australia and has acted
as adviser to state and federal governments and the OECD. His research
interests cover the economics of public health, with special focus on
the evaluation of social or community-level interventions and the
political economy of health.
