Colleen Metge

Colleen Metge

Bio

Colleen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Community of Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine at the University of Manitoba. She is also a research scientist with the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP). Colleen’s background in pharmacoepidemiology (McGill-trained) and economics (University of Maryland) has meant her lead or involvement in many MCHP projects using Manitoba’s Population Health Repository: Pharmaceuticals: Focusing on Appropriate Utilization and Therapeutic Interchange & Pricing Policy; Analysis of Patterns of Pharmaceutical Use; Patterns of Mental Illness Disorder Diagnosis & Service Use plus less pharmaceutically associated projects like Health Inequities in Manitoba and Composite Measures of Health & Health Performance. Colleen has worked as a researcher and evaluator for over 25 years in Manitoba, Canada and internationally (US, France). She directed the research & evaluation unit for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority for eight years. The position offered front-line collaboration with decision-makers and academic colleagues; during her tenure, over 150 research/ evaluation reports were produced. Colleen has served on CNODES Knowledge Translation Committee since its inception.