Dr. Claire de Oliveira is a Senior Scientist and Senior Health Economist at the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). She is a Professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, a Senior Adjunct Scientist in the Mental Health and Addictions Program at ICES, and an Affiliated Researcher at the Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences at Uppsala University, Sweden.
Previously, she was a Reader in Health Economics at the Centre for Health Economics and the Hull York Medical School at the University of York, UK. She was also the inaugural Expert Lead in cancer economics at the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer from 2016 to 2022.
In addition to her academic appointments, Dr. de Oliveira currently serves as a board member and Treasurer of the International Health Economics Association, a member of the international editorial board of the British Journal of Psychiatry, and a member of the World Psychiatric Association Section on Mental Health Economics.
Dr. de Oliveira has published extensively in the mental health economics and mental health services research fields, with several notable publications in high-impact journals, such as Health Affairs, the Lancet Psychiatry, and the Canadian Medical Association Journal. She has extensive experience working with administrative and survey data and has expertise in data and regression analysis and economic analyses.
In 2016, Dr. de Oliveira was recognised as one of CAMH’s most promising young researchers in the CAMH Breakthrough Challenge. In 2017, she was the recipient of the prestigious Alan Williams fellowship awarded by the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York, United Kingdom and, in 2024, she was granted the Visiting Scholar Program award by the Centre for Health Economics at Monash University, Australia.
Areas of Research
Dr. de Oliveira’s main areas of research are in health economics and health services research applied to mental health and child health. Her current program of research covers several areas, such as disentangling the relationship between mental health and work-related outcomes (e.g., lost productivity, employment), examining the quality of care for patients living with schizophrenia and those living with eating disorders, and understanding the economic impact of parental and child mental health on later life outcomes. In addition, she has led substantial research around estimating the economic burden of cancer care in Canada. She has several collaborations worldwide, namely in Australia, Sweden, and the UK.
Publications
View Dr. de Oliveira's publications on PubMed.