Kednapa Thavorn

Kednapa Thavorn

BPharm, MPharm, PhD

Senior Scientist, Methodological and Implementation Research

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Scientific Lead, Health Economics

The Ottawa Methods Centre

Associate Professor, School of Epidemiology and Public Health

Faculty of Medicine

Adjunct Scientist, Chronic Disease Program

ICES (Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences)

Member, Centre for Implementation Research

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Contact

(613)-737-8899 ext 72330

Research Administrative Coordinator: Jennifer Brownrigg | jebrownrigg@ohri.ca | 613-737-8899 x73810

Research Groups

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Research Group
HERO Group (Dr. Thavorn)
Lead by Dr. Kednapa Thavorn, the HERO group's primary fields of research are health economics, health technology assessment and health equity.
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Research Group
Centre for Implementation Research
The Centre for Implementation Research (CIR) focuses on developing and applying implementation science in health-care settings to improve health care.
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Core Facility / Platform
ICES uOttawa
Conducting high quality, high impact health services research that contributes to improvements in health and health care in Ontario.

Bio


Dr. Kednapa Thavorn is a Senior Scientist and a Scientific Lead of Health Economics at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. She is also an Associate Professor with the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa, an Adjunct Scientist at ICES (Full Status), and a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. She holds a Ph.D. in Health Services Research from the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), University of Toronto. She completed post-doctoral fellowship programs in Applied Pharmacoeconomics from the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital and Health Services Research from the IHPME, University of Toronto.

Her research focuses on health economics, health technology assessment, pharmacoepidemiology, health equity, care for people with complex needs, and population health. As a health economist, she has collaborated with patient partners, clinicians, researchers, and policymakers in Canada and other countries on various health services research and health technology assessment projects.


News


Publications

Evaluating the Role of Inpatient Sleep Studies in Hospitalized Adults in Relation to One-Year Mortality and Healthcare Utilization: A Population-Based Cohort Study

2026-03-16 Go to publication

Association between potentially inappropriate prescribing and adverse patient outcomes using codified STOPP-START and Beers criteria in large, routinely collected population health datasets: a retrospective cohort study

2026-03-01 Go to publication

Trends in Healthcare Costs among People Living with HIV in Ontario, Canada, 2003-2018: Results from a Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study

2026-02-19 Go to publication

What Matters Most When Visiting a Rapid Access Addiction Medicine Clinic in Canada for Alcohol Use Care: A National eDelphi Study: Ce qui compte le plus lorsque l'on visite une clinique d'accès rapide au traitement médical de la toxicomanie (RAAM) au Cana

2026-02-11 Go to publication

Choice and Death: Analysis of Medical Assistance in Dying for Head and Neck Cancer in Ontario

2026-02-04 Go to publication

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