The Federal Budget is set to be released on April 16. Western University experts are available to speak to media on a variety of topics including housing, national school food program, AI spending, national dental care program and budget development.
Finance and Budgets
Mahmood Nanji
Lawrence Centre Policy Fellow, Ivey School of Business
Areas of expertise: Budgets and policy, development of budgets, tax administration; former Associate Deputy Minister at Ontario’s Ministry of Finance.
Political Science
Laura Stephenson
Professor, Political Science
Areas of expertise: Political behaviour, shift in the dimensions of political debate, foreign interference, voter attitudes and public opinion, electoral engagement with politics.
Health-care spending
Lauren E. Cipriano
Associate Professor, Ivey Business School and Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Areas of expertise: Health policy evaluation, health economics, health-care cost effectiveness analysis, pharmacare plan; Canada Research Chair in Healthcare Analytics, Management, and Policy.
Housing
Mike Moffatt
Assistant Professor, Ivey Business School
Areas of expertise: Interest rates, housing markets and affordable housing, political risk, innovation policy.
Federal Investments in AI
Mark Daley
Chief AI Officer; Professor, Computer Science
Areas of expertise: Large language models in AI, implications of AI across organizations and industry.
Yalda Mohsenzadeh
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Areas of expertise: Artificial intelligence, bridging the gap between AI and human intelligence, deep neural networks, behaviour and computational modelling.
Joanna Redden
Associate Professor, Faculty of Information & Media Studies
Areas of expertise: Artificial intelligence and datafication, government use of AI, political implications of AI, data harms.
National School Food and Nutrition Program
Jason Gilliland
Professor, Health Studies, Geography and Schulich Medicine & Dentistry
Areas of expertise: School food programs, children and nutrition, public health, children’s environments.
Peggy O’Neil
Assistant Professor, Brescia University College
Areas of expertise: School nutrition programs, national food and nutrition programs, housing and homelessness.
Sisira Sarma
Professor, Schulich Medicine & Dentistry
Areas of expertise: School nutrition policy and diet quality, health inequality, health policy, economics of the social and environmental determinants of health.
Jamie Seabrook
Professor, Brescia University College
Areas of expertise: Social determinants of health disparities, maternal and infant health, maternal and child nutrition.
National Dental Program
Dr. Noha Gomaa
Assistant Professor, Schulich Medicine & Dentistry
Areas of expertise: Population oral health, social determinants of health and dental care for children from low-income families.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Justin Zadorsky, Media Relations Officer, Western University, 226.377.1673 (mobile), jzadorsk@uwo.ca
