Dr. David Henry appointed as professor and senior advisor to the Dean
September 16/2013
Sent on behalf of Professor Howard Hu and Professor Adalsteinn Brown
We are pleased to announce that Dr. David Henry has been appointed as professor and senior advisor to the Dean, Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Director, Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation. Dr Henry will develop a strategy for using 'big data' in the fields of population health and health policy evaluation. Dr. Henry's deep experience in working with large data sets and translating insights gained from these data to clinical practice and health policy make him remarkably well suited for this role. He is the former CEO of the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), where he was responsible for the expansion of ICES both in terms of data holdings and geographic reach, with establishment of new partnering sites at the University of Toronto, Queens University , University of Ottawa and Western University. Dr Henry is a physician and epidemiologist with a long record of research in pharmaco-epidemiology. He is executive co-lead of the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES), a distributed network of provincial data centres and investigators who perform large population-based drug safety analyses.
In this new role Dr. Henry will help shape research priorities at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation and lead a pedagogical program in big data that will span both organizations. He will help shape a big data strategy for both organizations that focuses on the use of Ontario's extensive data holdings to improve health and healthcare outcomes, health system sustainability, and our knowledge of the determinants of health. By connecting with other sources of data, these initiatives will look to create broader and deeper data sets in Ontario that are relevant to senior decision-makers, clinicians, and scholars.
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Henry to the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation.