Lisa Robinson
Lisa A. Robinson, MPP, serves as Deputy Director of the Center for Health Decision Science, where she is a Senior Research Scientist. She is affiliated with the Center for Risk Analysis and the Department of Environmental Health, and a core faculty member of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE). Her teaching and research focus on improving the conduct of economic evaluations, particularly benefit-cost analyses of environmental, health, and safety policies and regulations. She has drafted related guidance for several government agencies and other organizations, including approaches for valuing mortality risk reductions (the value per statistical life, VSL). Among other issues, her current research addresses the ethical and practical advantages and limitations of alternative measures of individual and societal welfare, including distributional equity, and the implications of behavioral economics for economic evaluation and policy. She applies these methods to policies implemented in high income and resource-limited settings. She holds an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.