Morris L. Barer was the inaugural Scientific Director of the Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (one of the thirteen Canadian Institutes of Health Research). He was the founding (and is currently) Director of the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research at UBC. He is also Professor and co-lead, Health Systems and Services theme, in the School of Population and Public Health. He is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and a member of the Board of Trustees for the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation.

Dr. Barer has served on the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Advisory Committee on Health Services, as senior editor for Health Economics with the journal Social Science and Medicine, and as a consultant to a number of Ministries of Health across the country and internationally.

Professor at the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Professions, Dalhousie University. Dr. Tomblin Murphy is the Director of the newly designated WHO Collaborating Centre Health Workforce Planning and Research, located at Dalhousie University. This centre's mandate is to build capacity in needs-based health human resources planning, within Canada and internationally. Dr. Tomblin Murphy's contributions have been primarily in the area of health services with an emphasis on HHR planning through leadership in research, teaching, and work with governments, employers, unions, and professional associations. She co-leads national and international research teams consisting of clinicians, health care leaders, senior policy-makers, and researchers from government, universities and health care organizations. Dr. Tomblin Murphy's work has been widely published in peer-reviewed publications and as policy documents and commissioned reports.