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Rebecca Hancock-Howard

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Faculty memberInstitute of Health Policy, Management, and EvaluationUniversity of Toronto

Rebecca Hancock-Howard

Faculty member

Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation

Dalla Lana School of Public Health

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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7 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.

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Publications

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Research

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Latest papers

Economic impact of acupuncture for the prevention of episodic migraine and chronic migraine in Taiwan
Medicine · 2025
Economic evaluation of multiple falls prevention interventions among community-residing older adults: we know the ‘value’, but what about ‘value for money’?
Age and Ageing · 2025 · first author
Cost-Utility Analysis of Acupuncture for the Prevention of Episodic Migraine from a Lifetime Canadian Health System and Societal Perspective
Medical Acupuncture · 2025

All 13 publications

Latest funding

Integrating Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation as a Treatment for Nicotine Dependence in the Clinic: A Pragmatic, Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trial.
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$200,000
Nurse-Led Model of Integrated Care Facilitated by Telemonitoring for Complex Patients at High-Risk for Hospitalization
CIHR · 2020 · Co-investigator
$1,181,925
A Web-Based Peer Navigation Program for Men with Prostate Cancer: A Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trial
CIHR · 2020 · Co-investigator
$569,926

All 3 grants and awards

13 publications.

Economic impact of acupuncture for the prevention of episodic migraine and chronic migraine in Taiwan

Elizabeth C. Wu, Rebecca Hancock, Brian Chan, Peter Christopher Coyte

Medicine20252 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000042304 PMID: 40324237

Economic evaluation of multiple falls prevention interventions among community-residing older adults: we know the ‘value’, but what about ‘value for money’?

Hancock-Howard R, Mendlowitz AB, Saunders H, Mishra S, Plett D, Loong D, Hemmelgarn B, Liu BA, Marr S, Holroyd-Leduc JM

Age and Ageing2025First authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afaf343

Cost-Utility Analysis of Acupuncture for the Prevention of Episodic Migraine from a Lifetime Canadian Health System and Societal Perspective

Elizabeth C. Wu, Rebecca Hancock, Brian Chan, Peter Christopher Coyte

Medical Acupuncture2025Open Access

DOI: 10.1089/acu.2024.0102 PMID: 41573160

Canadian Spine Society

Dionne A, Al-Zakri M, Labelle H, Joncas J, Parent S, Mac-Thiong J-M, Miyanji F, Lonner B, Eren A, Cahill P

Canadian Journal of Surgery2024Open Access

DOI: 10.1503/cjs.011424

A cost-utility analysis of thrombopoietin receptor agonists for treating pediatric immune thrombocytopenia purpura after failure of first-line therapies.

Du H, Wang J, Livingston J, Alrajhi Z, Kirby-Allen M, Chan B, Hancock-Howard R, Coyte PC

Pediatric blood & cancer2023Open Access

DOI: 10.1002/pbc.30523 PMID: 37391862

An Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes Tool for Older Adults With Complex Chronic Conditions: Cost-Utility Analysis.

Miranda RN, Bhuiya AR, Thraya Z, Hancock-Howard R, Chan BC, Steele Gray C, Wodchis WP, Thavorn K

JMIR aging202211 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.2196/35075 PMID: 35442194

Cost-effectiveness of a gene sequencing test for Alzheimer’s disease in Ontario

Nicolas Iragorri, Danielle Toccalino, Sujata Mishra, Brian CF. Chan, Allison Ann Dilliott, John F. Robinson, Robert Alexander Hegele, Rebecca Hancock, The ONDRI Investigators

Journal of Community Genetics20222 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1007/s12687-022-00619-7 PMID: 36434378

Cost-utility analysis of transcranial direct current stimulation therapy with and without virtual illusion for neuropathic pain for adults with spinal cord injury in Canada

Min Xi, Xiaowei Shen, Kamilla Guliyeva, Rebecca Hancock, Peter Christopher Coyte, Brian Chan

Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine20215 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1080/10790268.2021.1961051 PMID: 34779737

Evaluating the Cost Effectiveness of a Suicide Prevention Campaign Implemented in Ontario, Canada.

Lebenbaum M, Cheng J, de Oliveira C, Kurdyak P, Zaheer J, Hancock-Howard R, Coyte PC

Applied health economics and health policy202024 citations

DOI: 10.1007/s40258-019-00511-5 PMID: 31535350

A cost analysis comparing telepsychiatry to in-person psychiatric outreach and patient travel reimbursement in Northern Ontario communities.

Serhal E, Lazor T, Kurdyak P, Crawford A, de Oliveira C, Hancock-Howard R, Coyte PC

Journal of telemedicine and telecare202018 citations

DOI: 10.1177/1357633x19853139 PMID: 31234715

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Rebecca Hancock-Howard

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Economic impact of acupuncture for the prevention of episodic migraine and chronic migraine in Taiwan

Economic evaluation of multiple falls prevention interventions among community-residing older adults: we know the ‘value’, but what about ‘value for money’?

Cost-Utility Analysis of Acupuncture for the Prevention of Episodic Migraine from a Lifetime Canadian Health System and Societal Perspective

Canadian Spine Society

A cost-utility analysis of thrombopoietin receptor agonists for treating pediatric immune thrombocytopenia purpura after failure of first-line therapies.

An Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes Tool for Older Adults With Complex Chronic Conditions: Cost-Utility Analysis.

Cost-effectiveness of a gene sequencing test for Alzheimer’s disease in Ontario

Cost-utility analysis of transcranial direct current stimulation therapy with and without virtual illusion for neuropathic pain for adults with spinal cord injury in Canada

Evaluating the Cost Effectiveness of a Suicide Prevention Campaign Implemented in Ontario, Canada.

A cost analysis comparing telepsychiatry to in-person psychiatric outreach and patient travel reimbursement in Northern Ontario communities.

Integrating Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation as a Treatment for Nicotine Dependence in the Clinic: A Pragmatic, Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trial.

Nurse-Led Model of Integrated Care Facilitated by Telemonitoring for Complex Patients at High-Risk for Hospitalization

A Web-Based Peer Navigation Program for Men with Prostate Cancer: A Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trial

Frequent collaborators

Peter Coyte

Brian Chan

Wendy Ungar

Claire de Oliveira

Paul Kurdyak

Eric Nauenberg

Michael Lebenbaum

Meghan McMahon

Henry Ahn

Victor Yang

Joel Finkelstein

Deepa Kattail

Daryl Fourney

Gary Linassi

Jérôme Paquet

Vithushan Surendran

Mohamed Sarraj

Toan To

Daniel Blumberger

Michael Fehlings

Teresa To

Albert Yee

Marjolaine Roy-Beaudry

Laura Stone

Sharon Straus

Andrea Tricco

Brenda Hemmelgarn

Veronique Pepin

Brian Kwon

Audrey Laporte