Dr. Hunt’s research career has involved him in the areas of workers’ compensation programs, disability prevention and management, employment and training policy, and the employment impacts of technological change. He has studied, consulted, and written about workers’ compensation systems in Australia, Canada, and the United States.

In 2008, Dr. Hunt led a team studying the incidence of total permanent disability pensions in the Washington workers’ compensation system. In the past few years he chaired a Study Panel on Benefit Adequacy for the National Academy of Social Insurance, conducted a “Core Review” of workers’ compensation service delivery for the government of British Columbia, and participated with the Office of Workers’ Compensation Policy in the U.S. Department of Labor on a study of the Federal Employees Compensation Act.

He has over 30 years of experience in workers’ compensation research and policy issues, and is the author or editor of nine books and numerous commissioned reports and articles. Currently, Dr. Hunt is working on issues of benefit equity, adequacy, and efficacy for serious injuries in workers’ compensation programs.

Recent publications and reports

• Barth, Peter S., Heather Grob, Henry Harder, Allan Hunt, and Michael Silverstein, Washington Pension System Review. State of Washington, Department of Labor & Industries, Olympia, Washington, November 2008.
• Hunt, H. Allan. “The Evolution of Disability Management in North American Workers’ Compensation Programs.” In Accommodating Disability in the Workplace, Kelly Williams and Daphne Taras, editors. (Victoria, British Columbia: NIDMAR, forthcoming).
• Hunt, H. Allan, “Performance Measurement in Worker’s Compensation Systems.” In Workplace Injuries and Diseases: Prevention and Compensation, Karen Roberts, John F. Burton, Jr., and Matthew M. Bodah, eds., (Kalamazoo, MI: W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2005).
• Hunt, H. Allan, "Benefit Adequacy in State Workers’ Compensation Programs." Social Security Bulletin. 2003/2004, Vol. 65, No. 4, 24-30.
• Hunt, H. Allan, “The Adequacy and Equity of WC Benefits.” In The Future of Workers’ Compensation: Opportunities and Challenges, Richard A. Victor, ed. (Cambridge, MA: Workers Compensation Research Institute, 2004).
• National Academy of Social Insurance. Editor and Contributor to: Adequacy of Earnings Replacement in Workers’ Compensation Programs. (Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2004.)
• Hunt, H. Allan, "Why Not the Best? Service Delivery Core Review Report." Ministry of Skills Development and Labour, Government of British Columbia, March 2002.
• Budetti, Peter P., Richard V. Burkhauser, Janice M. Gregory, H. Allan Hunt, (eds.). Ensuring Health and Income Security for an Aging Workforce. (Kalamazoo, MI: W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2001).
• Barth, Peter S., H. Allan Hunt, Alan Clayton, Ralph W. McGinn, Robert W. Klein, and Terrance J. Bogyo, Workers’ Compensation in Victoria: The Third Way. Victorian WorkCover Authority, Melbourne, Australia, December 1999.