Raisa Deber, PhD
Co-Investigator, University of Toronto
Raisa Deber, PhD is Professor in the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. Born in Toronto, Professor Deber received her Ph.D in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has lectured and published extensively on Canadian health policy, and advised numerous local, provincial, national and international bodies and served on editorial boards and review panels. Professor Deber’s current research centres around Canadian health policy. Projects include definitions of “medical necessity”, examination of specialized services under population-based models, public and private roles in the financing and delivery of health services (with a focus on long term care), and the study of medical decision making and issues surrounding patient empowerment. She is currently the director of M-THAC (From Medicare to Home and Community: Overtaking the Limits of Publicly-funded Healthcare in Canada, a community alliance health research program funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research.