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Background
Sue Horton is the CIGI Chair in Global Health Economics. She received her BA from Cambridge, and her Masters and PhD from Harvard, and specializes in health, nutrition and labour market issues in developing countries. She has worked in over 20 developing countries, and has consulted for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, several UN agencies, International Development Research Centre, etc.
Sue has edited or co-edited four books, and is the author or co-author of more than 50 refereed journal articles and book chapters, as well as 30 technical publications. She is currently working on a book on the Economics of Public Health, as well as articles and chapters on economics of nutrition. She has given over 80 invited presentations and conference papers in four continents. Sue speaks French, German and Spanish as well as English.
She is also Associate Provost of Graduate Studies at the University of Waterloo. She has previously served as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science, Chair of the Department of Social Science and Interim Dean at University of Toronto at Scarborough, as well as Vice-President Academic at Laurier.
Select Publications
- Horton, S., A. Wesley and V. Mannar. "Double-fortified salt reduces anemia, benefit:cost ration is modestly favourable." Food Policy, 2011, doi:10,1016/j.foodpol.2011.06.002
- Sartori, D., G.J. Casey, S.E. Horton, R.Q. Phuc, LB. Phu, D.R. Thach, R.C. Dai, G. Fattore, A. Montresor, B.A. Biggs. "Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit of a deworming and weekly iron supplementation programme in women of reproductive age in Vietnam." Forthcoming, PLoS (Public Library of Science) ONE.
- Horton, S. and A. Miloff. "Iodine status and availability of iodized salt: an across-country analysis." Food and Nutrition Bulletin 31(2): 214-220, 2010
- Horton, S., M. Shekar, C. McDonald, A. Mahal, J.K. Brooks. Scaling Up Nutrition: what will it cost? Washington DC: World Bank Directions in Development, 2009.
- A.Hall, S. Horton and N. de Silva. "The costs and cost-effectiveness of mass treatment for intestinal nematode worm infections using different treatment thresholds." Public Library of Science: Neglected Diseases, March 3(3) 2009, available at http://www.plosntds.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pntd.0000402
- Brown, K.H., S.Y. Hess, E. Boy, R.S. Gibson, S. Horton, S.J.Osendarp, F. Sempertegui, R. Shrimpton and I. Rudan. "Setting priorities for zinc-related health research to reduce children's disease burden worldwide: an application of the CHNRI research priority-setting method." Public Health Nutrition 22:1-8, 2008
- Horton, S. "High aspirations: differences in employee satisfaction between university faculty and staff." Applied Research in Quality of Life, 1:315-322, 2006
Academic/Professional Awards
- Proposed solution for nutrition and hunger ranked as top solution at the Copenhagen Consensus 2008 (http://www.copenhagenconsensus.com)
- 2008-09 Visiting Scientist at Micronutrient Initiative, Ottawa
- WLU Administrator of Excellence; WLU Students Union, 2005-06
