Beate Sander

Beate Sander, RN MBA MEcDev PhD, holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Economics of Infectious Diseases, is a Senior Scientist at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network (UHN) where she chairs the Collaborative Centre for Health Systems & Policy Research. She is a Professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), University of Toronto and holds appointments as Adjunct Senior Scientist at ICES (formerly known as Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences), and Adjunct Scientist at Public Health Ontario (PHO).

Dr. Sander is an internationally recognized leader in infectious disease economics with extensive expertise in health economics and simulation modeling. She is the principal investigator of several multidisciplinary projects funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and other organizations. Her research focus is on assessing the cost-effectiveness of infectious disease interventions using simulation modeling, integrating equity considerations into economic evaluations, and estimating the burden of infectious diseases using population-based data. Dr. Sander has received several awards for research excellence.

Dr. Sander is an expert to national and international advisory bodies, including Canada’s National Advisory Committee for Immunization (NACI), where she chaired the Economics Task Group and co-chaired the Economic Guidelines Task Group –tasked with developing national guidelines for the economic evaluation of vaccines, which sets the standard for conducting economic evaluations for vaccines in Canada. Dr. Sander co-chaired the Ontario COVID-19 Modeling Consensus Table from March 2020 to March 2022 and was a member of Ontario’s Science Advisory Table, leading timely COVID-19 evidence generation and knowledge mobilization. Dr. Sander is a member of several Federal expert advisory committees and Past President of the Society for Medical Decision Making.