Jennifer Davis

Jennifer Davis is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Management at University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus, holding a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2, Applied Health Economics). Her work focuses on applied health economic evaluation and outcomes research, particularly in healthy aging, falls prevention, and rehabilitation research. She co-directs the Falls Prevention Clinic at Vancouver General Hospital and serves as an associate editor for the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

• Education
  • PhD, Experimental Medicine & Health Care and Epidemiology (Health Economic Stream), University of British Columbia (2010)
  • MSc, Experimental Medicine (Clinical Research), University of British Columbia (2006)
  • BSc (Hon), Physiology, University of British Columbia (2003)

Research integrates cost-effectiveness analyses in clinical settings like falls, fracture, and cognition, with emphasis on patient-reported outcome measures. Articles span applied health economics, geriatrics, and biostatistics, analyzing mobility, cognitive impairment, and aging in relation to health outcomes.

Teaching includes operations management, health economics, clinically applied economic evaluation, multiple imputation of missing data, and research methods at both undergraduate and graduate levels, with leadership in web-based education through the CIHR Training Program in Rehabilitation Research.

Awards include CIHR Banting Canada Graduate Scholarship, VCHRI Top Graduating PhD Student Award, and CIHR Age+Prize, alongside CIHR and MSFHR postdoctoral awards.

Collaborations involve CIHR grants as co-investigator, health policy development in British Columbia, and cross-institutional partnerships in rehabilitation research.