Marc-André Gagnon
Principal Investigator
Marc-André Gagnon is Associate Professor with the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University (Ottawa). He holds a PhD in Political Science from York University and a Master’s of Advanced Study in Economics from Paris-1 Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay/St-Cloud. He did his post-doctoral training with the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy at McGill University’s Faculty of Law, and with the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. His current research focuses on the political economy of the pharmaceutical sector. He analyzes financial incentives and corporate strategies in the pharmaceutical sector, institutional corruption in medical research, innovation policies and intellectual property in the knowledge-based economy, as well as comparative regimes of health insurance and drug coverage.