Dr. Beate Sander, Director of Health Modeling & Health Economics and Population Health Economics Research (PHER) Division at THETA, is an emerging world leader in health services research. Her innovative research program builds upon her pioneering work in the economic evaluation of the burden and intervention strategies associated with infectious and vector-borne diseases. Dr. Sander’s research group has evaluated Zika and West Nile virus intervention strategies using data-driven simulation models and estimated the burden of infectious diseases using population data. Her research will address challenges in the use of costing data in economic evaluations, the need for disease-specific and comprehensive simulation models, and the broader societal impact of infectious diseases and their interventions. Dr. Sander’s research program will reinforce Canada’s unique leadership in the economic evaluation of infectious diseases and inform the timely implementation of changes to health policies.
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Posted on June 20, 2019