Biography of IHSPR's first Scientific Director, Dr. Morris Barer, 2000-2006

Dr. Morris Barer is a Professor in the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, (Founding) Director of the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and an Associate of the Population Health Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He holds a PhD in Economics and an MBA in public policy from UBC. Dr. Barer's areas of research lie in health care financing, health human resource policy (particularly physicians), health care utilization by seniors and children, alternative financing and care delivery arrangements, professional regulation, international health care system comparisons, private financing issues in Canadian health care, pharmaceutical policy, the disjunction between rhetoric and evidence in health care policy, and care-seeking by Canadians in the U.S. He was the founding treasurer of the Canadian Health Economics Research Association, served six years as a member of the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Advisory Committee on Health Services, and served five years as a senior editor with the international journal Social Science and Medicine.

Term end: August 31, 2006