Jason Sutherland
PROGRAM HEAD – HEALTH SERVICES AND OUTCOMES, PHD
Dr. Jason Sutherland is a Professor at the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research at the University of British Columbia School of Population and Public Health.
Research Interests
- Health system performance
- Funding policy
- Methods for improving cross-continuum care
- Variations in utilization patterns
- Accounting for differences in efficiency and quality of care
Dr. Sutherland is the Editor-in-Chief of Healthcare Policy and Associate Editor of Health Policy. He is a former Harkness Fellow for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and conducts research on the performance of healthcare delivery systems.
Dr. Sutherland obtained his Ph.D. in Statistics from Simon Fraser University. Previously, he was Canada’s 2012/2013 Harkness Fellow for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at the Office of the Assistant to the Secretary for Health Policy and Evaluation of the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C. Dr. Sutherland is currently studying changes in health attributable to elective surgery using patient-reported outcomes (PROs), patients’ health over time, and the impact of funding policy.
Additional Affiliations
- Professor, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, School of Population and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
- Affiliated Investigator, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute
Media Coverage
- How can wait times at hospitals be reduced? (CBC News, September 2024)
- Health care remains B.C.’s biggest expense with some added ‘wild cards’ (Business in Vancouver, February 2024)
- What solutions will improve access to health care? (The Globe and Mail, December 2023)
- Sending B.C. cancer patients to U.S. ‘costly proposition’ (Global News, May 2023)
- B.C. says it has fulfilled promise to tackle surgery backlog, but experts say data only tell part of the story (The Globe and Mail, March 2022)
- B.C. aims to clear backlog of 32,400 surgeries in 15 months if COVID-19 surge doesn’t happen (The Globe and Mail, July 2020)
- Pandemic offers once-in-a-generation chance to overhaul elective surgery model, doctors say (CTV News, May 2020)
Awards
- Harkness Fellowship in Health Policy and Clinical Practice (Canada), Commonwealth Fund, New York
- Scholar Award, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
