Lisa Robinson
Lisa A. Robinson, MPP, is a Senior Research Scientist in the Center for Health Decision Science and the Center for Risk Analysis at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She serves as Deputy Director of the Center for Health Decision Science. 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 developing 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 considers the use of these methods in both high income and resource-limited settings. Ms. Robinson is now leading a major effort to evaluate and prioritize interventions undertaken outside of the healthcare system that have the potential to substantially improve public health in low- and middle-income countries. She holds an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.