Western University has the following experts available to media on topics related to today’s announcement regarding the national pharmacare bill:
Lauren E. Cipriano
Associate Professor, Ivey School of Business; Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry; Canada Research Chair in Healthcare Analytics, Management, and Policy
Areas of expertise: Prescription drug pricing and value, health policy evaluation, health economics, health care cost-effectiveness analysis, technology adoption.
Associate Professor, Sociology; Director, Centre for Research on Social Inequality
Areas of expertise: Social demography, family sociology, contraceptive access, immigrant and refugee fertility, social inequality, racial and socioeconomic disparities.
Professor, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Areas of expertise: Paediatric clinical pharmacology, drug efficacy and safety, mechanisms of drug hypersensitivity.
Sisira Sarma
Professor, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Areas of expertise: Cost burden on patients, theoretical and empirical insights about co-payment, economics of primary health care, health policy and economics.
Jacob Shelley
Associate Professor, Health Studies, Law; Co-Director, Health Ethics, Law & Policy Lab
Areas of expertise: Health law and policy, ethics of national pharmacare program, ethics of prescription drug access.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Justin Zadorsky, Media Relations Officer, Western University, 226.377.1673 (mobile), jzadorsk@uwo.ca
Cynthia Fazio, Media Relations Officer, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, 226.376.4924 (mobile), cynthia.fazio@uwo.ca
Ivan Langrish, Associate Director, Media Strategy Marketing and Communications, Ivey School of Business, 416-203-0664 (office), 416-427-6337 (mobile), ilangrish@ivey.ca
