Bio
Ahmed Bayoumi is a scientist at the MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Canada, and a general internist and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) physician. He holds the Fondation Baxter & Alma Ricard Chair in Inner City Health at St. Michael’s and the University of Toronto. He is a professor in the Department of Medicine and in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.
His research interests include economic evaluation, decision analysis, and quality of life assessment for HIV-related health interventions, and studies of the access to the delivery of health services, particularly to people living with HIV, people who use drugs, and other people experiencing marginalization. His work has included cost-effectiveness analyses of screening strategies for HIV, drug treatments for HIV and related conditions, and supervised injection sites (overdose prevention sites). He is a Senior Adjunct Scientist at I ES (formerly the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences). He is past President of the Society for Medical Decision Making and was formerly a member of the Canadian Drug Expert Committee. He is a past Director of Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.