Aslam Anis

In 2010, Anis was appointed as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

His earliest research in the pharmaceuticals showed that pricing regulations of drug plans were responsible for higher generic drug prices in Canada. In 1995, as the founding director of the Pharmacoeconomic Initiative of BC, Anis developed a framework under which firms seeking to list drugs on the provincial formulary were required to submit cost-effectiveness data in order to inform the government's funding decision.

Anis completed his BSS (Honours) in economics at the University of Dhaka (1981) and his MA and PhD in economics at Carleton University (1983, 1990). He joined the faculty of the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine, School of Population and Public Health (then called the Department of Health Care & Epidemiology) in 1995. He was appointed as a full professor in the school in 2005. From 2002 to 2013, Anis served as the director of the Masters of Health Administration (MHA) program in the UBC Faculty of Medicine. Anis is currently the director, pro tem, of the School of Population and Public Health at UBC.

Aslam Hayat Anis was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh (then known as Dacca, East Pakistan) to a Bengali family. His father Anis Waiz (1935 – 2003) was a professor of medicine and founding principal of Bangladesh Medical College. Anis's mother, Rokaiya Anis (née Ahad) (1935 – 2018), was a clinician in gynaecology and obstetrics who participated in the 1952 Language Movement. She joined the Pakistan Army as a civilian medical officer and later ran the gynaecology and obstetrics department at the Combined Military Hospital.