Professor Emeritus

McMaster Decision Science Laboratory

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Health Economics, Health-Related Quality of Life, Experimental economics; HTA

905-525-9140 ext. 23703

feeny@mcmaster.ca

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David Feeny is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at McMaster University and was one of the founding members of CHEPA. He held appointments at McMaster in the Departments of Economics (1976-1998) and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (1988-1998) before joining the University of Alberta as a Professor of Economics, Public Health Sciences, and Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Fellow of the Institute of Health Economics. In 2006 he became a Senior Investigator and Assistant Program Director at the Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Northwest in Portland, Oregon. He returned to McMaster in July, 2014.

Feeny received his PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1976. His research has included the development of multi-attribute health status classification systems and he was among the collaborators who developed the landmark Health Utilities Index Mark 2 (HUI2) system, used to evaluate outcomes resulting from treatments for childhood cancer.

He received the 2010 President’s Award from International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL). Feeny was one of 17 scholars who served on the Second Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine (Neumann et al. 2017).