Raisa B. Deber of the University of Toronto is an internationally recognized expert on Canadian health policy. She is renowned for her ability to analyze major health policy issues at local, provincial, national, and international levels, and to develop novel conceptual frameworks backed by data analysis, which have generated policy-relevant conclusions that have significantly influenced health policy theory and practice. Through scholarship, mentorship, and championing of multidisciplinary teamwork, she has enhanced our knowledge of shared decision making, the public-private mix in financing and delivering health care, health human resources, and home and community care.

Professor Deber’s current research centers on Canadian health policy. Projects, conducted with colleagues and students, include: preferred role for patients in making treatment decisions; implications of the distribution of health expenditures and public/private roles for financing and delivery of health services; the implications of different ways of financing primary health care; examination of where nurses and other health professionals work and the factors associated with differential “stickiness” across sub-sectors; issues associated with the movement of care from hospitals to home and community; decision making, and approaches to accountability.

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