Visitors & Alumni – Center for Health Decision Science

Decision Science Alumni

Name: Fangli Geng Grad year: 2024 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Assessing Value and Optimizing Decision-Making in Post-Acute Care Across Diverse Populations” Current positions(s): Assistant Professor, Department of Health Services, Policy & Practice, Brown University School of Public Health

Name: Lyndon James Grad year: 2024 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Enhancing Health Policy Decisions in Diseases Affecting Disadvantaged Populations: Applied and Methodological Analyses” Current positions(s): Internal Medicine Resident, Boston Medical Center

Name: Karen Smith Grad year: 2024 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Essays on Decision Analytic Modeling for Hypertension and Frailty” Current positions(s): Investigator, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Name: John Giardina Grad year: 2023 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Accounting for Heterogeneity in Health Decision Analysis” Current position(s): Associate Investigator, Medical Practice Evaluation Center, Massachusetts General Hospital

Name: Jinyi Zhu Grad year: 2022 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Decision Modeling to Inform Resource Prioritization: Methods and Applications” Current position(s): Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Name: Zachary Ward Grad year: 2021 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Computational Epidemiology: Methods and Applications for Global Health” Current position(s): Research Scientist, Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Name: Jamie Cohen Grad year: 2020 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Applications of Mathematical Modeling to Evaluate Cervical Cancer Prevention in an HIV-Endemic Setting” Current position(s): Research Manager for Product Discovery and Development, Institute for Disease Modeling, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Name: Katherine Lofgren Grad year: 2020 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Informing Financial Investments in Health: Applications of Decision-Analytic Methods” Current position(s): Director, Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Abett

Name: Vidit Munshi Grad year: 2020 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Risk-based Strategies for Population Screening and Disease Management” Current position(s): Lecturer, Markets, Public Policy, and Law, Boston University

Name: Dahye (Lina) Song Grad year: 2020 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Data-Driven Healthcare Operations Management: The Role of Provider Market and Public Policy” Current position(s): Assistant Professor, Department of Operations and Technology University College London School of Management

Name: Craig White Grad year: 2017 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Delivering the Right Amount of Care – Sometimes More is Less” Current position(s): Senior Vice President and General Manager, Concerto HealthAI

Name: Arielle Bensimon Grad year: 2016 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Using Empirical Data to Evaluate Strategies to Improve Women’s Health” Current position(s): Vice President, Analysis Group

Name: Paula Chu Grad year: 2016 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Identifying High-Value Lifestyle Interventions for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention” Current position(s): Director, Outcomes Research, Organon

Name: Mark Shrime Grad year: 2015 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Health, Poverty, and Surgery in the US and around the World” Current position(s): Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; O’Brien Chair of Global Surgery, Institute of Global Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland International; Chief Medical Officer, Mercy Ships

Name: Sorapop Kiatpongsan Grad year: 2014 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Decision Making for Medical Innovations” Current position(s): Managing Director, Institute of Public Policy and Development; Faculty Member, Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok)

Name: Nicolas Menzies Grad year: 2014 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Mathematical Modeling to Evaluate Disease Control Policy” Current position(s): Associate Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Name: Dorothy Romanus Grad year: 2014 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “The Value of Targeted Therapies in Lung Cancer” Current position(s): Senior Director, Global Outcomes Research, Takeda Oncology

Name: Adriane Gelpi Grad year: 2014 Concentration: Ethics Dissertation: “Priority Setting for HIV and Mental Health in Mexico: Historical, Quantitative and Ethical Perspectives Current position(s): Director, Cancer Prevention and Control, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Name: Natalie Carvalho Grad year: 2012 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Health Impacts and Economic Evaluations of Maternal and Child Health Programs in Developing Countries” Current position(s): Associate Professor of Health Economics in the Centre for Health Policy, at Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

Name: Tara Lavelle Grad year: 2012 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Examining Health and Economic Outcomes Associated with Pediatric Medical Conditions in the United States” Current position(s): Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine

Name: Ankur Pandya Grad year: 2012 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Optimizing Cardiovascular Disease Screening and Projection Efforts in the United States” Current position(s): Associate Professor of Health Decision Science, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Name: Davene Wright Grad year: 2012 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Examining Methods Used to Evaluate the Cost-Effectiveness of Childhood Obesity Interventions” Current position(s): Associate Professor of Population Medicine, Department of Population Medicine; Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute; Associate Director Division of Child Health Research and Policy, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute

Name: Nicole Gastineau Campos Grad year: 2011 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Cervical Cancer Prevention: Using Primary Data to Inform Decision-Making in Developed and Developing Country Contexts” Current position(s): Senior Research Scientist, Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Name: Daniel Hogan Grad year: 2011 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Modeling Health Outcomes in Resource-limited Settings” Current position(s): Head, Corporate Performance Monitoring and Measurement at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

Name: April Kimmel Grad year: 2010 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Efficiency and Equity Concerns for HIV Treatment Scale-up in Developing Countries” Current position(s): Associate Professor, Department of Health Behavior and Policy, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

Name: Chara Rydzak Grad year: 2010 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “The Application of Decision Analytic Methods to Diverse Public Health Problems in Underserved Populations” Current position(s): Associate Professor of Diagnostic Radiology; Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Imaging, Oregon Health & Science University

Name: Rebecca Anhang Price Grad year: 2009 Concentration: Medical Sociology Dissertation: “Adoption of New Medical Technologies: The Case of Cervical Cancer Prevention” Current position(s): Senior Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation

Name: Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert Grad year: 2008 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Decision-analytic Approaches to Evaluating Prevention Policy Alternatives” Current position(s): Professor of Health Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine

Name: Joseph Ladapo Grad year: 2008 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Cost-Effectiveness of 64-Slice Computed Tomography in Cardiac Care and an Analysis of the Adoption and Diffusion of a New Technology” Current position(s): State Surgeon General (Florida), University of Florida College of Medicine

Name: Eileen Sandberg Grad year: 2008 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “The Health-Related Quality of Life of Children Ages 7-10 with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and the Cost-Effectiveness of Treating ADHD in These Children” Current position(s): Training and Support Specialist and Pathways for Parents Coordinator, Federation for Children with Special Needs

Name: Stephen Resch Grad year: 2007 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Policy Modeling and Economic Evaluation of Tuberculosis Control” Current position(s): Lecturer, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Name: Jennifer Yeh Grad year: 2007 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Gastric Cancer Prevention Policy: The Economic and Population Impacts of Helicobacter pylori Screening” Current position(s): Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Associate Scientific Researcher, Boston Children’s Hospital

Name: Tanya Bentley Grad year: 2006 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “US Folic Acid Fortification Policy: Methods for Evaluating Folate Intake and Projecting Health Outcomes” Current position(s): CEO, Health & Human Performance Foundation; Research Scientist, UCLA Mindfulness Awareness Research Center

Name: Sun-Young Kim Grad year: 2006 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Economic Evaluation of Vaccination Policies Using Mathematical Models: Cost-Effectiveness, Externalities, and Affordability of Hepatitis B Vaccination” Current position(s): Associate Professor of Global Health, Seoul National University Graduate School of Public Health

Name: Rena Conti Grad year: 2006 Concentration: Economics Dissertation: “Economic Value of New Treatments for Depression” Current position(s): Dean’s Research Scholar and Associate Professor Markets, Public Policy, and Law, Questrom School of Business, Boston University; Associate Research Director, Biopharma and Public Policy, Institute for Health System Innovation and Policy, Questrom School of Business, Boston University

Name: Kevin Haninger Grad year: 2006 Concentration: Ethics Dissertation: “Valuing Health for Public Policy” Current position(s): Vice President, International Advocacy, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)

Name: Thomas Concannon Grad year: 2006 Concentration: Evaluative Science and Statistics Dissertation: “Cost and Outcomes Analysis of Emergency Transport, Inter-Hospital Transfer and Hospital Expansion Policies in Cardiac Care” Current position(s): Senior Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Tufts University School of Medicine

Name: Jane J. Kim Grad year: 2005 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Using Mathematical Modeling to Evaluate the Public Health Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of Cervical Cancer Screening Strategies in Different World Regions” Current position(s): K.T. Li Professor of Health Economics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Dean for Academic Affairs, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Name: Amy Bird Knudsen Grad year: 2005 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Explaining the Secular Trends in Colorectal Cancer Incidence and Mortality with an Empirically Calibrated Microsimulation Model” Current position(s): Senior Scientist, Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Professor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School

Name: Pamela McMahon Grad year: 2005 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Policy Assessment of Medical Imaging Utilization: Methods and Applications” Current position(s): Research Scientist, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Institute

Name: Julia Aledort Gaebler Grad year: 2004 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Infectious Disease Policy in the Era of Antibiotic Drug Resistance: Decision Analytic and Historical Perspectives” Current position(s): VP of Commercial Strategy and Portfolio Planning, Milestone Pharmaceuticals

Name: Sally Araki Aalfs Grad year: 2003 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Shared Decision Making in the Treatment of Endometriosis Pain” Current position(s): Math Teacher and Math Department Chair, Woodside Priory School

Name: Elena Elkin Grad year: 2003 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Decision Analysis in the Evaluation of Breast Cancer Treatment” Current position(s): Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health

Name: Fumie Yokota Griego Grad year: 2003 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Improving Value of Information Analysis in Health Risk Management” Current position(s): Deputy Director General and Chief Operating Officer, International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA)

Name: Edmond Toy Grad year: 2002 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “The Environmental and Safety Risks of Sport-Utility Vehicles, Vans, and Pickup Trucks” Current position(s): Senior Economist and Budget Analyst, State of Colorado

Name: Richard Chapman Grad year: 2001 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Improving the Comparability of Cost-Effectiveness Analyses” Current position(s): Chief Science Officer, Innovation and Value Initiative (IVI)

Name: Joshua A. Salomon Grad year: 2001 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Empirical Approaches to Modeling HIV and Hepatitis C” Current position(s): Professor of Health Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine; Senior Fellow, Center for Health Policy, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Name: Bruce Schackman Grad year: 2001 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “The Cost-Effectiveness of Early Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV-Infected Adults” Current position(s): Saul P. Steinberg Distinguished Professor of Healthcare Policy and Research and of Population Health Sciences, Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine; Professor of Healthcare Policy and Research, Department of Medicine and Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College

Name: Phaedra Corso Grad year: 2000 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Evaluating Preferences for Health Risks” Current position(s): Vice President for Research and Professor of Health Policy, Kennesaw State University

Name: Jill Morris Ferdinands Grad year: 2000 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Methods for Modeling and Valuing Life Expectancy Gains” Current position(s): Senior Research Epidemiologist, National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Name: Lisa Prosser Grad year: 2000 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Patient Preferences and Economic Considerations in Treatment Decisions for Multiple Sclerosis” Current position(s): Marilyn Fisher Blanch Research Professor of Pediatrics, Associate Vice President for Research-Health Sciences, University of Michigan

Name: Eve Wittenberg Grad year: 2000 Concentration: Evaluative Science and Statistics Dissertation: “Health Risk Behavior, Preferences and Policy” Current position(s): Senior Research Scientist, Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Name: G. Scott Gazelle Grad year: 1999 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Cost-Effectiveness of Imaging and Surgery in Patients with Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases” Current position(s): Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School; Professor, Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School Of Public Health; Director, Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital; Director

Name: Jennifer J. Prah Grad year: 1998 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Aristotelian Justice and Health Policy: Capability and Incompletely Theorized Agreements” Current position(s): Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy Founder and Director, Health Equity and Policy Lab, and Director, Ortner Center on Violence and Abuse, School of Social Policy and Practice and Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Name: Angela Man-Wei Cheung Grad year: 1997 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “The Economic Impact of Primary Prevention: Methods and Applications of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis” Current position(s): Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto; Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Musculoskeletal and Postmenopausal Health

Name: Aaron Stinnett Grad year: 1996 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Issues in the Economic Evaluation of Health Interventions” Current position(s): Lutheran Pastor; Formerly Associate Professor of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Visitors

Danae Arroyos Calvera: Assistant Professor in Economics, Department of Economics, University of Birmingham

Chiara Brück: PhD Candidate, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, Netherlands

Carlos Casteñeda: Graduate Student, Colombian National Health Observatory, Colombia

Emma Clarke: PhD Candidate, Department of Global Health and Population, HSPH

Annette Conrads-Frank: Senior Scientist, University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Austria

Stijntje Dijk: PhD Candidate, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, Netherlands

Xavier F. Gomez-Olive Casas: Research Manager, Wits-Agincourt Unit, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

Beate Jahn: Senior Scientist, Associate Professor, Institute of Public Health, Medical Decision Making and Health Technology Assessment, University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology (UMIT), Austria

Thiago Jardim: Lehman Fellow, BWH, Adjunct Professor, Federal Univ. of Goias, Brazil

Noemi Krief: Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York

David Krane: Student, Williams College

Eline Krijkamp: PhD Candidate, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, Netherlands

Emily Lancsar: Head, Department of Health Economics Wellbeing and Society, Australian National University

Nicholas Latimer: Professor of Health Economics, School of Health and Related Research

Rebecca McDonald: Lecturer in Economics, Department of Economics, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Júlia Santamaria: Junior Scientist, Institute of Public Health, Medical Decision Making and Health Technology Assessment, University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology (UMIT), Austria

Jin Tan Liu: Professor, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Eva Tène: PhD Candidate, University of Toulouse and Toulouse School of Economics Research, France

Leticia Torres: PhD Candidate, National Institute of Public Health, Mexico

Brad Wong: Founder and Director, Mettalytics