Dr.-Mustafa-Ornek

Dr. Mustafa Ornek

Continuing Track FacultyFaculty, Staff

Dr. Mustafa Ornek has a PhD in Health Policy, with a specialization in Health Economics from McMaster University, and BA and MA in International Economics and Finance from Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU).  

He is currently teaching Business Economics and Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis courses at University Canada West.

Expertise and Experience

Dr. Orne brings his professional experience as a senior analyst at Statistics Canada, policy analyst at Health Canada’s COVID-19 Task Force and consultant at the immigration department of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to UCW. He has extensive expertise on available Canadian micro-level social, labour, education, income, health and business datasets for academic research purposes, as well as identifying adequate quantitative methodologies to use that data to answer a particular research question to respond a policy issue.

He previously taught Microeconomics and Introduction to Statistics courses at TMU and McMaster University and has held various teaching assistant positions during his graduate studies for various economics, health systems and health policy, analysis of health data and applied multivariate statistics courses.

Dr. Ornek is passionate about teaching. He enjoys finding ways to make lecture topics interesting for his students by providing real-world examples, articles and extra reading material to facilitate student engagement with the topic. He encourages his students to explore ways to apply their theoretical knowledge into exercises that would relate to them in their professional careers.

Publications and Scholarly Activity 

His PhD dissertation included three chapters on analysis of body mass index data. While working on them, he presented his analysis results on various national conferences, refereed several peer-reviewed articles on similar topics and collaborated in team projects. 

Working on his dissertation allowed him to gather considerable knowledge on how to clean and manipulate large administrative and linked datasets, as well as application of various novel methodologies in micro econometrics such as decomposition methods for distributional analysis, non-parametric and semi-parametric models. He is interested in applying these techniques on other topics that he is interested in researching, namely immigration and poverty.

Scholarships and Awards 

2012-2013

  • Graduate Scholarship - McMaster University, Health Policy PhD Program  
  • Research Scholarship - Dr. Arthur Sweetman 

2011-2012

  • Graduate Scholarship - McMaster University, Health Policy PhD Program  
  • Research Scholarship - Dr. Arthur Sweetman

2010-2011

  • Graduate Scholarship - McMaster University, Health Policy PhD Program  
  • CHEPA PhD Entrance Scholarship Award - McMaster University, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis

2009-2010

  • Graduate Scholarship - McMaster University, Department of Economics 

2007-2008

  • Graduate Award - Toronto Metropolitan University, Department of Economics 
  • Research Scholarship - Dr. Claustre Bajona  
  • Research Scholarship - Dr. Vincenzo Caponi

2007, 2004-05

  • Dean’s List - Toronto Metropolitan University, Faculty of Arts 

2006-2007

  • International Experience Fund - Toronto Metropolitan University, Office of International Affairs