Ellen Rafferty, MPH, PhD

Area of Study / Keywords

Health Economics Immunization Vaccination Public Health Epidemiology Health Administrative Data

About

Dr. Rafferty is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine, as well as a Senior Principal Health Economist at the Institute of Health Economics. Her research focuses on the epidemiologic and economic impact of public health policies and infectious diseases. She is interested in the incorporation of economics into immunization decision-making, and to that aim has worked with a variety of provincial and national organizations, including Health Canada, the Alberta Ministry of Health, Public Health Agency of Canada, National Advisory Committee on Immunization, and Alberta Health Services. 

Dr. Rafferty is interested in using health administrative data to inform policy. From 2018-2020 Dr. Rafferty completed a HSIF postdoctoral fellowship embedded at Alberta Health, where she estimated the cost-effectiveness of a respiratory syncytial virus immunization program. 

As a project manager and collaborator of the One Society Network (https://onesocietynetwork.ca/) she is working to incorporate an intersectoral perspective into pandemic response and policy. One Society Network is funded through NSERC and PHAC under their Emerging Infectious Disease Modeling (EIDM) Initiative. 

Masimbi O., Schurer J.M., Rafferty E., Ndahimana J.D.A., Amuguni J.H.

MALARIA JOURNAL. 2022 May; 21 (1) 10.1186/s12936-022-04158-x

Rafferty E., Paulden M., Buchan S.A., Robinson J.L., Bettinger J.A., Kumar M., Svenson L.W., MacDonald S.E.

PHARMACOECONOMICS. 2022 May; 40 (6):633-645 10.1007/s40273-022-01142-w