Lead, Health Economics

**Status**: Full time, indefinite
**Location**: Ottawa, Ontario, or Toronto, Ontario (hybrid)
**Closing date**: November 14, 2025
**Salary range**: $98,940 to $123,420 per year
Canada’s Drug Agency is a pan-Canadian health organization. We are an independent, not-for-profit organization headquartered in Ottawa, with a satellite office in Toronto. Created and funded by Canada’s federal, provincial, and territorial governments, we drive better coordination, alignment, and public value within Canada’s drug and health technology landscape. We provide Canada’s health system leaders with independent evidence and advice so they can make informed drug, health technology, and health system decisions, and we collaborate with national and international partners to enhance our collective impact.
We are proud to be a 2025 National Capital Region Top Employer. Canada's Drug Agency was named one of the National Capital Region's Top Employers for the second year in a row. This recognition celebrates our dedication to fostering a work environment that nurtures growth; innovation; and inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA). It reaffirms our ongoing efforts to create an outstanding workplace where our employees thrive and feel valued.
Primary Focus
The Lead, Health Economics is responsible for ensuring the preparation of high-quality economic products, including formulary reviews and technology-related optimal use projects. This is achieved by technical oversight and review of economic products to ensure that project deliverables reflect our methods, processes, and standards to meet the customer’s needs.
In support of this, the Lead, Health Economics is responsible for:

- determining the best approach and scope for economic products
- providing technical oversight and comments to economic teams
- performing management reviews and checking overall quality assurance in economic reports
- conducting 10 to 15 reviews and/or 1 to 2 health technology assessment (HTA) projects per year
- executing initiatives relevant to health economics that are aligned with the annual business plan.

What do the daily responsibilities look like?
**On any given day, the Lead, Health Economics will**:

- lead economic projects with an assigned economic team by ensuring continuous communication with economic team members to maintain clarity of roles, responsibilities, and expectations
- identify and communicate with team members the scope of a project based on an assessment of customer needs and timelines
- determine cases where a more tailored approach may be more appropriate, for example, streamlined economic analyses (if appropriate, the Lead, Health Economics will outline a framework for the tailored approach in consultation with Director, Health Economics and/or Health Economics managers)
- provide oversight for the economic processes for projects by giving guidance on technical or process aspects
- ensure reports are prepared in accordance with our processes and oversee quality of reports at various stages (e.g., drafts, responding to internal and external feedback, final reports), which entails ensuring the technical rigour of the reports and that the content of the report is accurate
- review responses to manufacturers’ comments or address internal and external feedback
- review economic information in our recommendations to ensure it is captured appropriately
- manage responses to specific requests from the expert committee for clarification or additional information on economic products
- lead the development of health economics tools to assist decision-making at local levels
- provide input on lessons learned from each project with a view to continual improvement of processes and approaches
- participate in ongoing knowledge development in health economics, drug therapy, medical technologies, critical appraisal, systematic review methods, and statistics, and commit to a continued process for the improvement of guidelines, policies and procedures, and website information — including review processes and report templates — to maximize the efficiency of processes and the quality of the economic reports
- participate and contribute to health economics group initiatives, such as health economics quality assurance approaches and training workshops.

Is this the right role for you?
**The Lead, Health Economics will likely have**:

- a completed graduate degree in economics or a health-related discipline, coupled with relevant experience in health services research (ideally related to health economics and/or technology assessments), which is normally attained over a period of 3 years; an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered
- an in-depth understanding of microeconomic analysis, including experience in reviewing and conducting economic evaluations, budget impact analyses, and computer-based economic and statistical modelling
- an understanding of the health care system in Canada and knowledge of the