Karen Born

Karen Born, MSc, PhD is a Canadian health systems specialist based in Toronto, Ontario.

Born holds an MSc in international health policy the London School of Economics and a PhD in health services research from the University of Toronto.

From 2008-2010, Born worked as a facilitator for MASS LBP, a political advocacy group.¹⁾

Born is an assistant professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.²⁾ She is also listed as a faculty member under the Institute for Pandemics.³⁾

Born co-founded Healthy Debate, an online publication about health care in Canada.⁴⁾

The website is sponsored by Deloitte, Judith Glennie, Arthur Slutsky, the University of Toronto, Ontario SPOR Support Unit (OSSU), and the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael’s Hospital.⁵⁾

Born served as Research Projects Manager and Knowledge Translation Lead for the Choosing Wisely Canada campaign from 2015–2022, hosted at St. Michael's Hospital under Unity Health Toronto.⁶⁾ In that capacity, she was responsible for dissemination of campaign content to patients and the public, the integration of the campaign into medical education and coordination of the Choosing Wisely international collaboration.

Funding for Choosing Wisely Canada comes from Health Canada, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and the Commonwealth Fund.⁷⁾

Born received payment from North York General Hospital, the University of Calgary, and SickKids to set up James Lind Alliance priority setting, partnership facilitation and agenda development meetings.⁸⁾

Born is a member of the secretariat of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, where she serves as Assistant Scientific Director.⁹⁾