Wendy Ungar

Wendy J. Ungar, MSc, PhD, is a senior scientist in Child Health Evaluative Sciences at the Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute. She holds an appointment as professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto and is an affiliate scientist at ICES. Dr. Ungar holds the tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Economic Evaluation and Technology Assessment in Child Health. She founded TASK (Technology Assessment at Sick Kids) in 2007 where her team conducts research applying health economic methods to child health with a focus on genomics and neurodevelopmental disorders. Dr. Ungar and her team maintain the PEDE database, a user-friendly searchable online database of pediatric economic evaluations used by HTA agencies around the world. In 2017 Dr. Ungar was appointed the inaugural Chair of the Ontario Genetic Testing Advisory Committee which makes funding recommendations on emerging genetic testing technologies for the province of Ontario, Canada. In 2020 she was awarded the Dr. Jill M. Sanders Award of Excellence from Canada’s Drug Agency (formerly the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health) for outstanding achievement significantly advancing the field of health technology assessment in Canada. Her book, Economic Evaluation in Child Health was published by Oxford University Press in 2010.