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Michael Wolfson

Michael Wolfson is an expert adviser with EvidenceNetwork.ca and holds a Canada Research Chair in population health modelling/populomics at the University of Ottawa. He is a former assistant chief statistician at Statistics Canada, and has a PhD in economics from Cambridge.


Riding electoral outcomes reveal regional life expectancy trends

Voting patterns in the 2019 and 2021 elections show significant differences in life expectancy depending on which party won the seat: shorter for constituents who elected a Conservative or NDP MP compared to Liberal-won ridings.

opinion | BY MICHAEL WOLFSON | May 22, 2025

How to achieve accountability in long-term care

It is impossible for provincial/territorial residents to hold their governments accountable for their responsibilities in LTC if the data available are biased, and the most important kinds of data are completely absent.

opinion | BY MICHAEL WOLFSON | February 14, 2024

How much money does Canada’s health system really need?

Before more is spent on health care, Canadians need to insist on evidence that they are getting better value for the existing expenditures, and demand their politicians exercise the leadership to implement needed structural reforms.  

opinion | BY MICHAEL WOLFSON | March 16, 2023

Canada needs a national database to track COVID-19 vaccination in real time

opinion | BY MICHAEL WOLFSON | January 4, 2021

Fiscal federalism: driving in the dark without lights or a map

opinion | BY MICHAEL WOLFSON | August 17, 2020

Why has Canada’s data collection during the pandemic been so bad?

opinion | BY MICHAEL WOLFSON | April 27, 2020

We need a new kind of weather forecast

opinion | BY MICHAEL WOLFSON | November 12, 2018

Does Canada need to worry about the same festering malaise that has disrupted the United States?

opinion | BY MICHAEL WOLFSON | December 5, 2016