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Susan Horton

ResearcherSchool of Public Health and Health SystemsUniversity of Waterloo

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Susan Horton

Researcher

School of Public Health and Health Systems

Health Sciences

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
20 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 5 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 2 research grants (2 CIHR), most recently in 2019.

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Publications

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Research

Global Health Policy - Towards Universal Health Coverage Affordability Diagnostics Donor Agencies Health Technology Infectious Disease Threats Low- And Middle-Income Countries Markets

Latest papers

How much can healthier diets reduce future economic and human costs? Results from Ethiopia and the Philippines.
Health policy and planning · 2026 · first author
Use of administrative data for evaluating trends in medically-attended Lyme disease, Manitoba, Canada, 2010–2021
PLoS ONE · 2026
Moving the dial on diagnostics: an update from the Lancet Commission on diagnostics.
Lancet (London, England) · 2025 · first author

All 61 publications

Latest funding

Advancing equitable access to diagnostics
CIHR · 2019 · Nominated PI
$18,500
Identifying opportunities for health economics research in childhood cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa: An International Planning Meeting
CIHR · 2018 · Co-investigator
$19,950
The role of international actors in affordable diagnostic technology in low- and middle-income countries
CIHR · 2017 · Nominated PI
$20,000

All 5 grants and awards

61 publications.

How much can healthier diets reduce future economic and human costs? Results from Ethiopia and the Philippines.

Horton S, Gaffey MF, Dizon F, Ferrer E, Golloso-Gubat MJ, Hanley-Cook G, Nacionales K, Okamura KS, Fracassi P

Health policy and planning2026First author

DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czag018 PMID: 41668443

Use of administrative data for evaluating trends in medically-attended Lyme disease, Manitoba, Canada, 2010–2021

Major M, Horton S, Nightingale N, Halsby K, Angulo FJ, Stark J, Yu H, Loeb M, Wang I, Nair S

PLoS ONE2026

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0342260

Moving the dial on diagnostics: an update from the Lancet Commission on diagnostics.

Horton S, Wilson ML, Cheung ANY, DeStigter K, Kohli M, Sayed S, Schroeder LF, Sullivan R, Tan BS, Alooh M, Dahn B, Donoso-Bach L, Garcia PJ, Hussain S, Kao K, Looi LM, Pai M, Plebani M, Tebeje YK, Umutesi G, Walia K, Fleming KA

Lancet (London, England)2025First author

DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(25)00804-9 PMID: 40409332

Effectiveness of introducing pulse oximetry and clinical decision support algorithms for the management of sick children in primary care in Kenya and Senegal on referral and antibiotic prescription: the TIMCI quasi-experimental pre-post study.

Langet H, Faye PM, Njiri F, Cicconi S, Levine GA, Glass TR, Kosgei RJ, Ngari K, Schaer F, Thiongane A, Tine JAD, Ba M, Bohle LF, Emmanuel-Fabula M, Faye MM, Horton S, Miheso A, Mugo M, Ngutu M, Ruffo M, Shauri J, Sougou NM, D'Acremont V, Wyss K, Ndiaye O, Beynon F, TIMCI Collaborator Group

EClinicalMedicine2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2025.103196 PMID: 40474998

A Systematic Review of Cost-Effectiveness Studies on Pancreatic Cancer Screening.

Lewis D, Jiménez L, Chan KK, Horton S, Wong WWL

Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.)2025

DOI: 10.3390/curroncol32040225 PMID: 40277782

Effectiveness of introducing pulse oximetry and clinical decision support algorithms for the management of sick children in primary care in India and Tanzania on hospitalisation and mortality: the TIMCI pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial.

Beynon F, Mhalu G, Kumar D, Cicconi S, Langet H, Levine GA, Agarwal G, Festo C, Glass TR, Jacob A, Kumar G, Lwambura S, Matata L, Mkopi A, Moshiro R, Schaer F, Bandi V, Bohle LF, Emmanuel-Fabula M, Horlacher M, Horton S, Maiba J, Makawia S, Masanja N, Mjungu D, Mtebene IE, Odek O, Oliveira V, Pantjushenko E, Reus E, Ruffo M, Sharma K, Storey H, Tyagi M, D'Acremont V, Masanja H, Awasthi S, Wyss K, TIMCI Collaborator Group

EClinicalMedicine2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2025.103306 PMID: 40686675

Costs of testing sick children in primary care with pulse oximetry: Evidence from four countries, both with and without electronic clinical decision support.

Horton S, Adombi U, Beynon F, Emmanuel-Fabula M, Herrick T, Kumar S, Makawia S, Mugo M, Onah M, Ruffo M, Awasthi S, Ba M, Bohle LF, Cicconi S, Langet H, Faye PM, Masanja H, Miheso A, Mjungu D, Machoki M'Imunya J, Ndiaye O, Sharma K, D'Acremont V, Wyss K, TIMCI Collaborator Group

PLOS global public health2025First author

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0004644 PMID: 40591534

The Tools for Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (TIMCI) study protocol: a multi-country mixed-method evaluation of pulse oximetry and clinical decision support algorithms.

Beynon F, Langet H, Bohle LF, Awasthi S, Ndiaye O, Machoki M'Imunya J, Masanja H, Horton S, Ba M, Cicconi S, Emmanuel-Fabula M, Faye PM, Glass TR, Keitel K, Kumar D, Kumar G, Levine GA, Matata L, Mhalu G, Miheso A, Mjungu D, Njiri F, Reus E, Ruffo M, Schär F, Sharma K, Storey HL, Masanja I, Wyss K, D'Acremont V, TIMCI Collaborator Group

Global health action2024

DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2024.2326253 PMID: 38683158

A Systematic Review of Cost-Effectiveness Studies on Gastric Cancer Screening.

Lewis D, Jimenez L, Mansour MH, Horton S, Wong WWL

Cancers2024

DOI: 10.3390/cancers16132353 PMID: 39001415

An Exploratory Analysis of the Cost-Effectiveness of a Multi-cancer Early Detection Blood Test Compared with Standard of Care Screening in Ontario, Canada.

Lewis D, Wong WWL, Lipscomb J, Horton S

PharmacoEconomics2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s40273-023-01345-9 PMID: 38150120

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Susan Horton

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

How much can healthier diets reduce future economic and human costs? Results from Ethiopia and the Philippines.

Use of administrative data for evaluating trends in medically-attended Lyme disease, Manitoba, Canada, 2010–2021

Moving the dial on diagnostics: an update from the Lancet Commission on diagnostics.

Effectiveness of introducing pulse oximetry and clinical decision support algorithms for the management of sick children in primary care in Kenya and Senegal on referral and antibiotic prescription: the TIMCI quasi-experimental pre-post study.

A Systematic Review of Cost-Effectiveness Studies on Pancreatic Cancer Screening.

Effectiveness of introducing pulse oximetry and clinical decision support algorithms for the management of sick children in primary care in India and Tanzania on hospitalisation and mortality: the TIMCI pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial.

Costs of testing sick children in primary care with pulse oximetry: Evidence from four countries, both with and without electronic clinical decision support.

The Tools for Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (TIMCI) study protocol: a multi-country mixed-method evaluation of pulse oximetry and clinical decision support algorithms.

A Systematic Review of Cost-Effectiveness Studies on Gastric Cancer Screening.

An Exploratory Analysis of the Cost-Effectiveness of a Multi-cancer Early Detection Blood Test Compared with Standard of Care Screening in Ontario, Canada.

Advancing equitable access to diagnostics

Identifying opportunities for health economics research in childhood cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa: An International Planning Meeting

The role of international actors in affordable diagnostic technology in low- and middle-income countries

Sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in Canada: consumption patterns over time and estimated health care costs.

Refining a Scaling Up Strategy for Bringing Local Healthy Food to School through Learning Circles in First Nations and Métis Communities

Frequent collaborators

Mark Oremus

Sumit Gupta

Prabhat Jha

Rhona Hanning

Madhukar Pai

Avram Denburg

Terrence Sullivan

Stephen Lye

Henry Ddungu

Linda Rabeneck

Mark Loeb