Dr. Michael C. Wolfson, B.Sc., (Toronto - mathematics, computer science and economics), Ph.D. (Cambridge - Economics) is Assistant Chief Statistician, Analysis and Development, at Statistics Canada.

Dr. Wolfson concentrates on health statistics and analytical and modeling programs. His areas of expertise include program review and evaluation, tax/transfer policy, pension policy, income distribution, design of health information systems, microsimulation modeling of socio-economic policy and health, and analysis of the determinants of health.

He has held positions in the Treasury Board Secretariat, the Department of Finance, the Privy Council Office, the House of Commons, and the Deputy Prime Minister's Office prior to joining Statistics Canada. He was also a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Program in Population Health (1988-2003). His numerous articles have addressed topics such as assessing the inter-generational equity of Canada's pension and health care systems, the design of an appropriate system of health statistics, modeling disease determinants and treatments, inequality trends in Canada and the United States, polarization and the decline of the middle class, measurement of economic growth, and income and income inequality as determinants of population health. His works have appeared in journals including the British Medical Journal, Canadian Journal of Economics, the Monthly Labour Review, the World Health Statistical Quarterly and Bulletin, and the International Journal of Public Health.

Dr. Wolfson has been active in research councils and institutes such as the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Research Council of the Canadian Institute for Advance Research (CIAR), the WHO Advisory Committee on Health Monitoring and Statistics, and the Council of the Canadian Population Health Initiative of the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).

He has participated in peer reviews for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Canadian Foundation for Innovation and presented at the 2004 and 2007 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) World Forum on Measuring Progress, and was appointed to the Federal Public Service Pension Plan Advisory Committee in 2007.