Professor, University of Calgary
Profile
Michael Law is a Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences and the Academic Director of the Centre for Health Policy at the University of Calgary. His research focuses on pharmaceutical policy, the affordability of prescription drugs, and the use of administrative data for policy evaluation across numerous topic areas. With funding from CIHR and other major funders, his work has been published in leading medical and health policy journals and has received significant media coverage. His interactions with policymakers at the Federal and Provincial levels have informed several significant policy changes that improved access to medicines and reduced drug expenditures in Canada. He was previously a visiting scholar at Harvard Medical School based at the University of Rwanda, which has led to ongoing projects evaluating health interventions in several lower-income countries.
Publications
Weymann D, Krebs E, Pollard S, Mcphail M, Bosdet I, Yip S, Weppler AM, Karsan A, Anderson H, Bubela T, Law MR, Kesselheim A, Regier DA. Patient and population impacts of multi-gene panel and pembrolizumab coverage in metastatic melanoma. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2025 Nov 8:djaf307. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djaf307. Online ahead of print. Read more
Nethery E, Xu C, Chan CSY, Helmer-Smith M, Stucchi A, Mooney D, Zusman EZ, Dunn S, Pammett R, Norman WV, Guarna G, Law MR, Schummers L. Mifepristone Access Through Community Pharmacies When Regulated as a Routine Prescription Medication. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Nov 3;8(11):e2542096. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.42096. Read more
Tsuei SH, McGrail K, Law M, Stucchi A, Hedden L. How do medical and social contexts affect telemedicine efficiency and quality? A propensity-score matching protocol in Canada's primary care. BMJ Open. 2025 Sep 23;15(9):e097225. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-097225. Read more
Schummers L, Cheng L, Odendaal M, Rodriguez-Llorian E, Kuo IF, Norman WV, Black A, Stucchi A, Helmer-Smith M, Nethery E, Downey A, Guindon GE, McGrail K, Brennand EA, Lee S, Metcalfe A, Bryan S, Darling EK, Bertazzon S, Poliquin V, Nickel NC, Clement F, Law MR. Effect of universal no-cost coverage on use of long-acting reversible contraception and all prescription contraception: population based, controlled, interrupted time series analysis. BMJ. 2025 Jul 28;390:e083874. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2024-083874. Read more
Nisingizwe MP, Tadrous M, Janjua NZ, Bansback N, Hedt-Gauthier B, Suda KJ, Law MR. Global disparities in access to hepatitis C medicines before and during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: an ARIMA-based interrupted time series analysis. BMJ Public Health. 2025 Jun 25;3(1):e001340. doi: 10.1136/bmjph-2024-001340. eCollection 2025. Read more
Lukey A, Howard AF, Mei AJ, Law MR, Huntsman D, Pearce CL, Meza R, Hanley GE. Risk-reducing salpingectomy: considerations from an OBGYN perspective. BMC Cancer. 2025 Jun 6;25(1):1011. doi: 10.1186/s12885-025-14384-6. Read more
Schummers L, Law MR, McGrail K, Darling EK, Zusman EZ, Dunn S, Kaczorowski J, Gayowsky A, Gozdyra P, Norman WV. Changes in local access to mifepristone dispensed by community pharmacies for medication abortion in Ontario: a population-based repeated cross-sectional study. CMAJ. 2025 Apr 6;197(13):E345-E354. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.241505. Read more
Li SS, McGrail K, Rosychuk RJ, Law MR, Hohl CM; Canadian COVID-19 Emergency Department Rapid Response Network (CCEDRRN) investigators for the Network of Canadian Emergency Researchers. Outcomes for people experiencing homelessness with COVID-19 presenting to emergency departments in Canada, compared with housed patients. CMAJ. 2025 Mar 10;197(9):E236-E243. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.241282. Read more
Sriram V, Rakasi M, Sharma K, Law MR, Brophy SA. Health Worker Protests in Canada: A Descriptive Analysis of Protest Events From 2021-2022. Healthc Policy. 2025 Feb;20(2):66-82. doi: 10.12927/hcpol.2025.27564. Read more
Sharma K, Cheng L, Dormuth CR, McGrail KM, De Vera MA, Clement F, McCracken RK, Mamdani M, Law MR. The impact of eliminating out-of-pocket payments for medicines on low-income households: a controlled interrupted time series analysis using linked administrative data from British Columbia. Health Policy. 2025 Feb 17;155:105270. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105270. Online ahead of print. Read more
Phagau NN, Kaur P, Nitschke A, Law MR, Guhn M, Oberlander TF, Hanley GE. Prenatal depression and child developmental vulnerability. Pediatr Res. 2025 Jan 24. doi: 10.1038/s41390-025-03846-z. Online ahead of print. Read more
Lukey A, Sowamber R, Huntsman D, Pearce CL, Howard AF, Meza R, Law MR, Phung MT, Hanley GE. Evaluating ovarian cancer risk-reducing salpingectomy acceptance: a survey. Cancer Res Commun. 2025 Jan 9. doi: 10.1158/2767-9764.CRC-24-0566. Online ahead of print. Read more
Rebić N, Cheng L, Law MR, Cragg JJ, Brotto LA, De Vera MA. Predictors of cost-related medication nonadherence in Canada: a repeated cross-sectional analysis of the Canadian Community Health Survey. CMAJ. 2024 Nov 24;196(40):E1331-E1340. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.241024. Read more
Xie EC, Ali S, Law M, Allin S, Proaño D, Sander B. Equity of financial protection for health in high-income countries: scoping review protocol. BMJ Open. 2024 Nov 21;14(11):e081029. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-081029. Read more
Kyomba GK, Law MR, Grépin KA, Mayaka SM, Mambu TN, Mbunga BK, Hategeka C, Mapatano MA, Konde JN, Ngo-Bebe D, Babakazo PD, Mafuta EM, Kiyombo GM. Barriers and facilitators to healthcare facility utilization by non-Ebola patients during the 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Glob Health Res Policy. 2024 Nov 19;9(1):47. doi: 10.1186/s41256-024-00387-6. Read more