Exploring Health
Careers in Public Health and Health Economics
PhD, MPH
Andy Chuck is a Health Economist with a doctorate degree from the University of Alberta. His research interests encompass all aspects of economic evaluation of health care technologies including stated preference approaches to valuating health status. He has particular interests in integrating decision modeling with health technology assessment to inform and guide health policy.
He has produced and collaborated on a wide range of evidence-based products, including policy impact assessments, health technology assessments, economic evaluations and budget/system impact analyses in a wide variety of clinical areas including pediatric infectious diseases, maternal fetal health, chronic pain, oncology, cardiology, diabetes, respirology and vaccines.
Andy
Chuck
Dr. Lisa Ross-Rodriguez is the Director of the Occupational Disease and Injury Prevention (ODIP) Section – Safe, Fair and Health Workplaces of Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour. Dr. Ross-Rodriguez received her MSc and PhD from the University of Alberta in Medical Sciences. Her role with ODIP is to facilitate collaborations with a focus on research, surveillance, informatics and evaluation through a coordinated, strategic approach that will assist in making evidence-informed policy decisions for occupational disease and injury prevention. In order to build knowledge capacity, Dr. Ross-Rodriguez works to connect with likeminded researchers and partners, and pool resources with the end result being the creation of a knowledge network and open data so we can ultimately reduce and/or eliminate occupational diseases and injuries in Alberta.
Dr. Lisa
Ross-Rodriguez
Maria
Ospina
Maria's educational background includes degrees in Psychology (Javeriana University, Bogota, Colombia), graduate studies in Epidemiology and Social Sciences (Escola Paulista de Medicina, Sao Paulo, Brazil), Clinical Epidemiology (MSc; University of Alberta, Canada), Public Health Sciences (PhD; University of Alberta), and training in systematic reviews methods (Iberoamerican Cochrane Center, Barcelona, Spain).
Maria started her career as a clinical psychologist and instructor at the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health in the Javeriana University (Bogota, Colombia). She was also assistant professor at the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatatistics at the Javeriana University (Bogota, Colombia), where she coordinated the activities of the Colombian Branch of the Cochrane Collaboration. From 2005 to 2009, Maria worked as a project coordinator with the Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence and the Evidence-based Practice Centre at the University of Alberta. Maria is a part-time research associate with the Institute of Health Economics, and currently works on her PhD in Public Health Sciences at the University of Alberta. Maria's own research interests include metaepidemiological research, methods for comparative effectiveness reviews and publication bias.