Decision Sciences

Dissertation Title: "Simulation of Policy Levers Across the Tuberculosis Care Cascade"

Tuberculosis (TB) continues to impose substantial mortality and morbidity, particularly among children, for whom diagnosis remains challenging, and among adults with...

Dissertation Title: "Insights into the Fragmented US Health System through Simulation Modeling: Childhood Insurance, Care Utilization, and Outcomes"

Empirical analyses of insurance, care utilization, and health outcomes are often constrained by fragmented...

Armand Zimmerman earned a BS in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MS in Global Health from Duke University. During his master’s program, he worked with the Global Emergency Medicine Innovation and Implementation...

Dissertation Title: "The Synergy of Real-World Evidence, Transportability, and Decision-Analytic Modelling in the Evaluation of Disease Screening Programs"

This dissertation uses decision analytic modelling to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of an emerging...

Dissertation Title: "Essays on Consumer Preferences in Health"

This dissertation quantifies consumer preferences in the domain of health, examines the mechanisms underlying these preferences, and develops tools for policymakers and practitioners to...

Isabella Impalli graduated from Princeton University in 2023 with a BSE in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a certificate in Humanistic Studies. Isabella then spent two years as a Research Analyst at the One Health Trust (OHT), where she was...

Kirsten Gallant earned a BA in Economics with a subsidiary in Mathematics and Statistics from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia. She began her career at the Bank of Canada as a Research Assistant in the Financial Stability Department, where she...

Astrid Yu earned her B.S. in Psychology from Beijing Normal University in 2021 and her M.Ed. in Quantitative Methods from Vanderbilt University in 2022. After graduation, Astrid worked as a research analyst at the Vanderbilt Department of Health Policy...