Nibene Somé

Dr. Nibene Somé holds a PhD in economics from Laval University, with a concentration in applied microeconomics, health economics, and applied econometrics. He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in health services research/health economics at Western University. His research interests are in applied health service research, health policy and health economics, and they are pretty broad, including topics on physician’s compensation policy and government financial incentives programs, mental health and addiction, suicide, and health equity (immigrant health). He enjoys analyzing new datasets, exploring how recent advances in several scientific fields (e.g., economics, statistics, and computer science) can enrich empirical models in health economics and health services research, using health administrative and survey data, and above all, pursuing issues in the organization, the design and delivery of healthcare that are important to improve population health outcomes.

His methodological interests currently center on new tools incorporating patients’ and physicians’ individual-specific differences in health policy and program evaluation. He also explores how machine learning algorithms can be used as innovative tools to evaluate risk factors and predict clinical and health outcomes using health administrative and survey data. His research is funded by the CIHR and the Ontario Ministry of Health.

Dr. Somé is currently a Decision Scientist with the Quality Measurement and Evaluation Team at Ontario Health. He is also an Assistant Professor (SO) with the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, an Adjunct Research Professor at the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Western University, and an ICES adjunct scientist.