Interim Director, Centre for Health Services and Policy Research
Professor, UBC School of Population and Public Health
jason.sutherland@ubc.ca
(604) 822-6812
www.healthcarefunding.ca
Profile
Dr. Jason M. Sutherland is a Professor in the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR) in the UBC Faculty of Medicine, School of Population and Public Health; the Program Head, Health Services and Outcomes, in the Centre for Health Evaluation & Outcome Sciences; and has been Canada’s Harkness Fellow in Clinical Practice and Health Policy.
Dr. Sutherland’s research spans two complementary themes: health system funding policy and patients’ outcomes from surgery. Dr. Sutherland has been active in advising provincial and federal governments on healthcare funding policy.
Dr. Sutherland is Interim Director of CHSPR, the director of the Masters of Health Sciences program in the School of Population and Public Health, the editor-in-chief of Healthcare Policy, and an associate editor of Health Policy. Dr. Sutherland’s current research projects include cross-sector funding policy and investigating associations between healthcare funding policy and patients’ health and health outcomes.
Education
PhD, Statistics, Simon Fraser University, 2003
MSc, Statistics, Simon Fraser University, 1997
BA, Mathematics, University of British Columbia, 1992
Research Interests
- Development of methods for monitoring and evaluating health system performance
- Measuring burden of illness and surgical outcomes
- Exploring causes and consequences of variations in health system utilization and funding
Affiliations and Awards
- Editor-in-chief, Healthcare Policy
- Associate Editor, Health Policy
- Co-Chair, Thesis Screening Panel, UBC School of Population and Public Health
- Member, Research Leaders Forum, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
Current Graduate Students
- Mattheus Bicknell, MSc Student, School of Population and Public Health
- Michael Bond, PhD Student, School of Population and Public Health
- Dibbya Dasgupta, MSc Student, School of Population and Public Health
- Michael Guo, MHSc Student, School of Population and Public Health
- Mehdi Jafari, PhD Student (with Dr. B. Quon), School of Population and Public Health
- Laura Valle, MSc Student, School of Population and Public Health
- Stephen Van Gaal, MSc Student, School of Population and Public Health
- Max Xie, PhD Student, School of Population and Public Health
- Sepideh Yousefiasl, MSc Student, School of Population and Public Health
Currently Recruiting Graduate Students Interested in
- Developing methods for measuring surgical outcomes
- Evaluating hospital spending and cost
- Measuring burden of illness
- Continuity of care
Dr. Sutherland is recruiting MSc, but not PhD, students at this time.
Courses Currently Taught
SPPH 581C Methods for Analyzing Routinely Collected Data
Recent Publications
Sutherland JM. Reversing the Stigma around Canada’s Poor-Performing Healthcare Systems. Healthcare Policy. 2023 Aug;19(1):8-22. doi:10.12927/hcpol.2023.27162. Read more
Redfern K, Moffett M, Mizushima M, Bond M, Guo M, Sutherland J. Value Judgements: Focusing on Patients' Health and Health Care Outcomes: Conference Summary. Vancouver (BC): UBC Centre for Health Services and Policy Research; Jun 2023. Read more
Sutherland JM. A Problem of Money and Health: The Need for Value in Healthcare. Healthcare Policy. 2023 May;18(4):8-17. doi:10.12927/hcpol.2023.27097. Read more
Sutherland JM, Crump RT, Karimuddin AA, Liu G, Wing K, Janjua A, Isaac K. Case mix-based changes in health status: A prospective study of elective surgery patients in Vancouver, Canada. J Health Serv Res Policy. 2023 Jun 11:13558196231182630. doi: 10.1177/13558196231182630. Online ahead of print. Read more
Desai S, Zhang W, Sutherland JM, Singer J, Quon BS. Factors associated with frequent high-cost individuals with cystic fibrosis and their healthcare utilization and cost patterns. Sci Rep. 2023 Jun 1;13(1):8910. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-35942-7. Read more
Kwon JY, Kopec J, Sutherland JM, Lambert LK, Anis AH, Sawatzky R. Patient-reported mental health and well-being trajectories in oncology patients during radiation therapy: an exploratory retrospective cohort analysis using the Ontario Cancer Registry. Qual Life Res. 2023 May 4. doi: 10.1007/s11136-023-03430-0. Online ahead of print. Read more
Saleeb M, Mohtashami F, Gadermann A, Murphy R, Flexman A, Crump T, Liu G, Sutherland JM. Associations between perceptions of shared decision making and health among hysterectomy patients: A prospective observational study. Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2023 Apr 20. doi: 10.1002/ijgo.14802. Online ahead of print. Read more
Milroy S, Wong J, Eberg M, Ieraci L, Forster K, Holloway CMB, Sutherland JM. Associations between Clinical Pathway Concordance, Cost and Survival Outcomes for Stage II Colon Cancer: A Population-based Study. Int J Qual Health Care. 2023 Mar 24:mzad012. doi: 10.1093/intqhc/mzad012. Online ahead of print. Read more
Desai S, Zhang W, Sutherland JM, Singer J, Zhou X, Quon BS. Economic burden of cystic fibrosis care in British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Respiratory, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. 2023 Mar 16; https://doi.org/10.1080/24745332.2023.2176797. Read more
Bola R, Sutherland J, Murphy RA, Leeies M, Grant L, Hayward J, Archambault P, Graves L, Rose T, Hohl C. Patient-reported health outcomes of SARS-CoV-2-tested patients presenting to emergency departments: a propensity score-matched prospective cohort study. Public Health. 2023 Feb;215:1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2022.11.016. Epub 2022 Dec 1. Read more
Sutherland JM. Provinces and Territories Are Overdue for an Update in Healthcare Funding Policies. Healthc Policy. 2023 Feb;18(3):6-16. doi: 10.12927/hcpol.2023.27039. Read more
Staples JA, Ho M, Ferris D, Liu G, Brubacher JR, Khan M, Daly-Grafstein D, Tran KC, Sutherland JM. Physician financial incentives for use of outpatient intravenous antimicrobial therapy (OPAT): an interrupted time series analysis. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 Feb 16:ciad082. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciad082. Online ahead of print. Read more
Quentin W, Achstetter K, Barros PP, Blankart CR, Fattore G, Jeurissen P, Kwon S, Laba T, Or Z, Papanicolas I, Polin K, Shuftan N, Sutherland J, Vogt V, Vrangbaek K, Wendt C. Health Policy - the best evidence for better policies. Health Policy. 2023 Jan 14:104708. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2023.104708. Online ahead of print. Read more
McKevitt E, Saleeb M, Liu G, Warburton R, Pao JS, Dingee C, Bazzarelli A, Tang K, Crump T, Sutherland JM. Differences in Preoperative Health-Related Quality of Life between Women Receiving Mastectomy or Breast Conserving Surgery in a Prospectively Recruited Cohort of Breast Cancer Patients. Curr Oncol. 2022 Dec 22;30(1):118-129. doi: 10.3390/curroncol30010010. Read more
Saleeb M, Mohtashami F, Gadermann A, Murphy R, Flexman A, Crump T, Liu G, Sutherland JM. A comparison of patient-reported outcomes among Canadian women having hysterectomies. Qual Life Res. 2022 Dec 22. doi: 10.1007/s11136-022-03326-5. Online ahead of print. Read more