Jonathan Lomas (researcher)

Jonathan Lomas (born June 21, 1952 in Swansea, Wales) is a British-Canadian health researcher and the inaugural Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF). He specializes in health services research and knowledge translation/exchange and has been called the "godfather of knowledge translation" by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. Lomas became an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2010.

Lomas was born on June 21, 1952 in Swansea, Wales, but spent most of his childhood in Britain. He obtained an undergraduate degree in experimental psychology from Oxford University in the early 1970s before moving to Canada as a Commonwealth Scholar. He obtained a master's degree in Psychology from the University of Western Ontario in 1975.

In 1980, he ran as a New Democratic Party candidate in the Canadian federal election in Toronto’s Don Valley West riding. He placed third, with 9.6% of the popular vote.

Between 1982 and 1997 Lomas was a Professor of Health Policy Analysis in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University where, along with Greg Stoddart, he co-founded the Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA), an applied research group with a strong emphasis on research dissemination and uptake.

In 1997 he became the inaugural CEO of the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF), a nationally endowed organization founded to improve the relevance and use of health services research in health system decision-making.

Lomas has been a consultant to national and provincial governments in Canada, and also to non-governmental organizations, task forces and inquiries. He has worked on international health issues as a consultant for the World Health Organization, the World Bank, the International Development Research Centre and the Rockefeller Foundation in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, The Philippines, South Korea, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand and Australia. He has been a Visiting Professor or Scientist at the University of Gadjah Mada in Indonesia (1990), the University of Sydney, Australia (where he was also a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Health of the New South Wales Government) (1996/97), and the Dutch national research and development agency ZonMw (2004).

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