The Division of Health Services and Policy encompasses a range of disciplines and fields including health services research, health policy, health economics, health systems and health ethics. Almost all areas of health care fall under scope and in many cases an applied lens contributes to collaboration with clinicians, health care managers and policy makers. The Division welcomes inquiry about the full range of public policies as they relate to social determinants of health, as encapsulated in the “Health in All Policies”.
Activities within the Division address the organization, regulation, accessibility and utilization of health care resources, and the resulting costs and effects. Topics of interest include large data administration, health and pharmaceutical policy, health reform, organizational change, health care financing, cost-effectiveness, health technologies, program evaluation, priority setting, quality and outcomes of health care, health information, social determinants, health disparities and knowledge translation.
Faculty within the Division contribute to teaching in all of the graduate programs within the School and are actively engaged with graduate students in both supervisory and advisory capacities. Prospective students are encouraged to read the faculty bios to get a sense of individual research interests. The Division is also home to the Health Economics concentration within the MSc program.
A number of research centres also are associated with the Division, including the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR), the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcomes Sciences (CHEOS), the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation (C2E2), the Centre for Applied Ethics (CAE), the Collaboration for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE), the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP), and the National Core for Neuroethics.
SPPH Faculty
Clinical Faculty
- Allan Best
- Anita Ho
- Svetlana Kishchenko
- Victoria Lee
- Mary McBride
- Sue Mills
- Brian Schmidt
- Vicki Scott
- Paulos Teckle
Adjunct Faculty
- Jonathan Agnew
- David Birnbaum
- Duncan Campbell
- Timothy Foggin
- Beverley Holmes
- Tracy Irwin
- Christina Krause
- Hans Krueger
- Ronald Lindstrom
- Marla Steinberg
- Howard Waldner
Emeritus Faculty
Affiliated Faculty
Associate UBC Faculty
- Canadian Centre for Applied Research in Cancer Control (ARCC)
- Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation (C2E2)
- Centre for Applied Ethics (CAE)
- Centre for Health Economics and Outcome Sciences (CHEOS)
- Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR)
- Collaboration for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE)
- Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP)
- National Core for Neuroethics