Visitors & 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): Assistant Professor of Health Decision Science, Department of Health Policy, 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): Chief Scientific Officer, 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): CEO and Founder, Doogooda

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):HTA Evidence Lead, Global Product Strategy, Roche

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; Chief Medical Officer, Mercy Ships

Name: Sorapop Kiatpongsan Grad year: 2014 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Decision Making for Medical Innovations” Current position(s): Director, MIT ASEAN Office; Visiting Professor, Sasin School of Management

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; Interim 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); Professor, 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 of Markets, Public Policy, and Law, 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; Professor of Policy Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School; 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): Managing Director, co.faktor GmBH – A Cytel Company

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; Avon Products Foundation Professor of Breast Cancer Research (in Health Policy and Management and in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center), Columbia University Medical Center

Name: Fumie Yokota Griego Grad year: 2003 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Improving Value of Information Analysis in Health Risk Management” Current position(s): Head of Global Public Affairs, Takeda

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): Associate Vice President and Vice Chancellor for Research, Indiana University Indianapolis

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; Director Emeritus, MGH Institute for Technology Assessment

Name: Jennifer J. Prah Grad year: 1998 Concentration: Decision Sciences Dissertation: “Aristotelian Justice and Health Policy: Capability and Incompletely Theorized Agreements” Current position(s): Amartya Sen Professor of Health Equity, Economics and Policy, and 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): Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, and KY and Betty Ho Chair of Integrative Medicine, University of Toronto; Senior Scientist, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute and the Schroeder Arthritis Institute

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

Chiara Brück: PhD Candidate, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, Netherlands

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

Stijntje Dijk: PhD Candidate, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, Netherlands

Beate Jahn: Associate Professor, University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology (UMIT), Austria

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

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

Satoshi Ogasawara: Chief Examiner, Office for Asbestos Health Damage Relief, Environmental Health Department at the Ministry of the Environment of Japan (MOE)

Veronika Papon: Junior Scientist, Medical Decision Making and Health Technology Assessment, University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology (UMIT), Austria

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

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

Brad Wong: Founder and Director, Mettalytics