Ted McDonald

Ted McDonald is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the founding Director of the DataNB (formerly NB Institute for Research, Data and Training), New Brunswick’s only provincial administrative data centre. He is a member of the Board of the Canadian Research Data Centre Network, a member of the Executive Committee of Health Data Research Network Canada, and the New Brunswick lead of the Maritime SPOR SUPPORT Unit (MSSU). He was a member of the Council of Canadian Academies Expert Panel on Health Data Sharing in Canada and served on the CADTH Real World Evidence Expert Advisory Panel. He also chairs the Social Dimensions of Aging Committee of CIHR.

Dr. McDonald was a UNB research scholar for 2020-22, a co-winner of the Mike McCracken award for Economics Statistics, awarded by the Canadian Economics Association in 2019, and was the 2022 recipient of the Donald G Denison Award for Public Administration in New Brunswick. His areas of research interest include immigrant health and health service use, the socioeconomic determinants of cancer and other chronic diseases, and population dynamics.