Dr. Allan Best
Managing Director, InSource Research Group; Associate Scientist, Centre for Clinial Epidemiology and Evaluation, VCHRI
Allan Best, PhD is Managing Director, InSource; Associate Scientist, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute; and Clinical Professor Emeritus; University of British Columbia. InSource is a Vancouver-based health services and population health research group with expertise in knowledge translation and exchange, systems thinking, and communications. It serves health systems decision makers, offering innovative “whole systems” research, planning, and evaluation tools to support large-scale organizational change.
Allan served as the founding Chair of the Department of Health Studies at the University of Waterloo in Canada, the world’s first interdisciplinary department integrating the biological and behavioural sciences to study health promotion.

Allan Best, PhD is Managing Director, InSource; Associate Scientist, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute; and Clinical Professor Emeritus; University of British Columbia. InSource is a Vancouver-based health services and population health research group with expertise in knowledge translation and exchange, systems thinking, and communications. It serves health systems decision makers, offering innovative “whole systems” research, planning, and evaluation tools to support large-scale organizational change.
Allan served as the founding Chair of the Department of Health Studies at the University of Waterloo in Canada, the world’s first interdisciplinary department integrating the biological and behavioural sciences to study health promotion.