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...
Jenna Rogers is a PhD Candidate in the Harvard Health Policy Program, concentrating in Decision Sciences. Her research sits at the intersection of decision psychology, risk communication, and decision-analytic modeling, with a focus on how population...
Andrea Luviano graduated as an MD from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (also known as Tecnológico de Monterrey) in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. After graduating, Andrea worked for four years as an advisor to the General...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Decision Analytic Modeling for Hypertension and Frailty"
This dissertation uses decision analytic modeling to evaluate two clinical conditions prevalent in the United States: hypertension and frailty. In the first chapter, I...
Dissertation title: "Enhancing Health Policy Decisions in Diseases Affecting Disadvantaged Populations: Applied and Methodological Analyses"
In this dissertation, I employed three different analytic lenses to help improve health policy decisions. Each...
Dissertation Title: "Risk-based Strategies for Population Screening and Disease Management"
The objective of this dissertation is to explore the tradeoffs of risk-based strategies to screen populations for disease and manage patients with abnormal test...
Dissertation Title: "Decision Modeling to Inform Resource Prioritization: Methods and Applications"
This dissertation is comprised of three chapters where I investigated the following policy and methodological questions in health decision science: the...
Dissertation Title: "Accounting for Heterogeneity in Health Decision Analysis"
This dissertation explores ways to account for heterogeneity in health decision analysis, including: the integration of individual-level risk factors into a chronic disease...