CIGI Chair in Global Health Economics

Balsillie School, Department of Health Studies and Gerontology (UW)

Associate Provost, Graduate Studies, (UW)

Contact Information

Office Location: Graduate Studies Office, Needles Hall
Phone Number: 519.888.4567 x33439
Email: sehorton @ uwaterloo.ca

Education

PhD Harvard, economics, 1982
AM Harvard, economics, 1981
BA Cambridge, economics, 1977

Areas of Specialization

Economics of public health
Economics of nutrition
Development economics
Poverty
Labour markets

Short Bio

Sue Horton is Professor of 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 (as of July 1) Associate Provost, 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.

Most recent scholarly publications

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

Horton, S. The economics of food fortification. Journal of Nutrition, 136:1068-1071, 2006

W. Sharieff, S. Horton and S. Zlotkin. Economic Gains of a home fortification program: evaluation of "Sprinkles" from provider's perspective. Canadian Journal of Public Health 97, 1:20-23, 2006

Recent academic/profesional 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