Lori Curtis PhD

Lori Jane Curtis after practicing as a Registered Nurse for over a decade, returned to university to study mathematics and economics eventually majoring in economics. She earned her BSc from Trent University and her MA from McMaster University in the early 1990s. She then took a position in the Federal Government at Energy, Mines, and Resources performing economic evaluations of environmental policies. she returned to McMaster to do her PhD in economics in 1994 graduating in 1998. Her areas of specialization were health economics, labor economics, and applied microeconomics. Since obtaining her Ph.D., she has held positions at Dalhousie University (Assistant Professor in Community Health and Epidemiology), and Health Canada (Assistant Director in Applied Research and Analysis Division) where she organized and managed a research unit focused on economic evaluation of health policies and programs). She returned to academia in 2005 to take up a Canada Research Chair (2005 to 2009) in the Department of Economics at Waterloo and is currently the Director of the South Western Research Data Centre on campus.