Professor Susan Horton

Dr Susan Horton is Professor Emeritus of global health economics at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

She has a BA from Cambridge University, and an AM and PhD from Harvard University, all in economics. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

She is well-known for her work on the economics of nutrition and her contribution to the global investment case for nutrition, as well as the economics of diagnostics and of cancer in low- and middle-income countries. She is one of the three lead authors of the 2021 Lancet Commission on Diagnostics. She has worked in more than twenty low- and middle-income countries, including Kenya, Tanzania and Ghana, and consulted for over a dozen UN organizations, international development banks, and international research organizations. According to Google Scholar, as of September 2022, her work has been cited more than 24 000 times.

As a member of the STAG-MEDEV, Professor Horton will contribute her understanding of how medical devices fit into broad global agendas, such as universal health coverage, and will bring her economics expertise to facilitate equitable access to health technologies worldwide.