The School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia welcomes Dr. Ana Komparic, Assistant Professor of Public Health and Applied Ethics, in January 2025.
Dr. Ana Komparic joins the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics and the School of Population and Public Health at UBC as an Assistant Professor in January 2025. As a public health ethics researcher and practicing ethicist, she brings extensive research and professional experience working at the intersection of ethics, policy, and practice. Prior to joining UBC, she held the position of Ethics Advisor at Canada’s Drug Agency (formerly CADTH, the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health) as well as a status appointment as an Assistant Professor at the Joint Centre for Bioethics and Division of Clinical Public Health in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. She has also worked as a policy analyst specializing in public health ethics at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and continues to consult for the Canadian Medical Association (CMA). Dr. Komparic has also completed a visiting research residency at the Brocher Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland.
Dr. Komparic’s research centres on understanding how applied ethics informs public health policy and practice, and in particular, understanding the role of values in policy, science, and public discourse. A focus of her research is understanding what makes health public—or a matter of shared concern and responsibility—and the associated ethical responsibilities of states and non-state actors for promoting, protecting, and securing individual and public health. More broadly, her research interests include public health ethics, health and pharmaceutical policy ethics, pharmacare policy, ethics in health technology assessment, applied ethics methodology, and professional ethics and codes of ethics.