Dr. Reed F. Beall is a population health researcher who works largely with medicine patent, regulatory, and utilization data to investigate the long-term impacts of national and international policy decisions which aim to balance incentives between equitable drug innovation and equitable drug access. He is an Assistant Professor in Healthcare Policy in the Department of Community Health Sciences within the Cumming School of Medicine and at the O’Brien Institute for Public Health at the University of Calgary. He also serves as affiliated faculty for the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and the Law (PORTAL) based within the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He has been invited to provide testimony on his research to the trilateral technical symposium of the World Health Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization, and the World Trade Organization, as well as to the United Nations Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines. Dr. Beall’s work has been published in Value in Health, Nature Biotechnology, Health Affairs, PLoS Medicine, and Social Science and Medicine, among others.

Education and Training

Postdoctoral: Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and the Law (PORTAL) based within the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Doctoral: Population Health, University of Ottawa; Masters: International Policy Economy and Global Health Affairs, University of Denver; Undergraduate: Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Research Interests and Expertise

Equitable pharmaceutical innovation and access to medicines; Healthcare disparities; Health inequities; Prescription drug and therapeutics policy; Intellectual property protection

Contact: reed.beall@ucalgary.ca

Dr. Tyler Williamson is the Associate Director here at the Centre for Health Informatics. In addition, he is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary and a member of the O’Brien Institute of Public Health and the Alberta Children’s Hospital research Institute. His research interests include health data integration (combining electronic medical record and health administrative data), chronic disease surveillance and research using electronic medical record data, and non-canonical link functions for binomial generalized linear models. He is a national and internationally recognized in the use of electronic medical record data for public health surveillance, health services research, and practice quality improvement working with organizations such as the Public Health Agency of Canada and Health Canada’s Marketed Health Products Directorate.

Contact: tyler.williamson@ucalgary.ca