Job Title: Professor, University of British Columbia
Bio: Steven Morgan, a 2001-2002 Canadian Associate of The Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy, is a Canadian Institutes for Health Research post-doctoral fellow in health economics and is teaching and conducting research at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Morgan's research includes projects related to the economic aspects of direct-to-consumer drug advertising, drug price regulation, pharmaceutical patents, Canada-U.S. drug price differentials, and pharmaceutical insurance programs. He has published work (with Robert Evans and Morris Barer) on pharmaceutical policy and health economics and has been a consultant to federal and provincial governments in Canada. A recipient of the National Health Research and Development's Ph.D. Fellowship and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research's post-doctoral fellowship, Morgan obtained an M.A. in economics at Queen's University and a Ph.D. in economics at the University of British Columbia.
Project: Impact of Pharmaceutical Policies and Practice Guidelines on Costs and Quality
Description: Morgan's project aimed to quantify the relative and absolute importance of different factors contributing to increases in per capita prescription drug costs for the population of Canadian seniors covered under the British Columbia Pharmacare Plan A. He conducted a quantitative analysis of prescription drug claims between 1985 and 1999, examining four components of expenditure inflation: the pattern of exposure to drugs across therapeutic categories; the mix of drugs used within therapeutic categories; the rate of generic drug product selection; and the prices of unchanged products.
