Research Interests: Economic and social implications of the aging population, impact on the use and provision of long-term health care services
Dr. Amy Hsu, PhD, is an Investigator at the Bruyère Research Institute and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa. She currently holds a Tier 2 Research Chair in Primary Health Care for Dementia at BRI and the University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Research Institute. Her research interests include the use of health administrative data to understand and predict outcomes for people needing home care, long-term care and palliative care. Dr. Hsu is also an Economist at Statistics Canada, where she contributes to research on dementia, end-of-life care (informing Health Canada’s development of a Framework on Palliative Care in Canada), long-term care, and Veterans’ health at the national level.