Students

Tanner Houston

PhD Candidate in Health Policy (G4, Management)

Tanner Houston is a doctoral student in Health Policy Management at Harvard University and Harvard Business School. He received his BS in Exercise Science - Pre Medicine at the University of Texas Arlington, while a member of the baseball team. He then...

Isabella Impalli

PhD Candidate in Health Policy (G2, Decision Sciences)

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...

Jacob Jameson

PhD Candidate in Health Policy (G5, Decision Sciences)

Jacob Jameson graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a BA in Economics and Mathematics and from the University of Chicago with an MS in Computational Analysis and Public Policy. Before graduate school, he worked as a middle school...

Janice Jhang

PhD Candidate in Health Policy (G3, Decision Sciences)

Janice Jhang received her BS in Policy Analysis and Management in 2019 from Cornell University, where she was a Meinig Family Cornell National Scholar and a Tanner Dean’s Scholar. She graduated from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2024...

J. Wyatt Koma

PhD Candidate in Health Policy (G5, Political Analysis)

J. Wyatt Koma is a PhD candidate in Harvard’s Health Policy program, with a concentration in political analysis. Much of his current research agenda focuses on understanding how to improve access to health care and health outcomes for low-income Americans...

Cordelia Kwon

PhD Candidate in Health Policy (G2, Political Analysis)

Cordelia Kwon received a BA in Global Public Health and Anthropology from New York University in 2021. Following graduation, she worked as a Senior Policy Associate at J-PAL North America, supporting randomized evaluations of social policies and...

Ralph Lawton

PhD Candidate in Health Policy (G4, Economics)

Ralph Lawton is a student in the MD-PhD program at Harvard Medical School. He was a Robertson Scholar at Duke University, graduating in 2020 with a BS in economics, and started medical school in 2021. After graduating, Ralph spent a year as an NBER...

Bohan Li

PhD Candidate in Health Policy (G5, Management)

Bohan is a doctoral student in Health Policy Management. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a double major in Chemistry and Economics. Before her doctoral studies, Bohan spent worked as a management consultant in Oliver Wyman’s Health...

Christopher Lim

PhD Candidate in Health Policy (G5, Economics)

Christopher graduated from the University of California Berkeley with a bachelor's in statistics. As an undergraduate, he worked as a research assistant for Professors Stefano Dellavigna and David Card on projects in behavioral firms and monopsonies in...

Andrea Luviano

PhD Candidate in Health Policy (G6, Decision Sciences)

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...

Simone Matecna

PhD Candidate in Health Policy (G4, Economics)

Simone Matecna graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Peace and Conflict Studies in 2020. After graduating, Simone worked as a predoctoral research fellow for Dr. Amitabh Chandra at...

Taegan Mullane

PhD Candidate in Health Policy (G1, Economics)

Taegan Mullane holds a bachelor's degree in quantitative economics and government from Smith College. Following graduation, she was a research assistant on the microeconomics team at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. She then worked as a predoctoral...