Ankur Pandya, MPH, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Health Decision Science in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His areas of interest are: 1) applied decision science studies evaluating cardiovascular disease policies; 2) connecting cost-effectiveness analysis with broader value-based health policies being implemented or piloted in U.S. health reform; and 3) methodological topics within disease simulation modeling (calibration, validation, value of information). He holds an MPH from Yale University and a PhD from Harvard. He teaches in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health decision science curriculum and was one of three recipients of the “Teaching Citation Award” in 2017.