Students

Andrea Luviano

PhD Candidate in Health Policy (G5, 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 (G3, Economics)

Simone Matecna graduated from the University of California Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Peace and Conflict Studies in 2020. At Berkeley, Simone carried out a randomized controlled experiment, working with local school districts to...

Michael Nguyen-Mason

PhD Candidate in Health Policy (G6, Economics)

Michael Nguyen-Mason is a PhD candidate in Health Policy and Economics at Harvard. Before coming to Harvard Michael received his BA at UC Berkeley and where he continued to work as an RA studying the role of competition in health insurance markets. Since...

Prianca Padmanabhan

PhD Candidate in Health Policy (G1)

Prianca Padmanabhan graduated from New York University in 2018 with a BA in Mathematics and a minor in Computer Science. After working in industry for a few years, she received an MS in Applied Statistics from NYU in 2022. After graduating, Prianca joined...

Graeme Peterson

PhD Candidate in Health Policy (G6, Economics)

Graeme Peterson graduated from Duke University in 2017 with a major in public policy. Prior to beginning the Health Policy PhD program, he worked in the Public Health Economics Program at RTI International and later joined the Urban Institute’s Health...

Nikhil Rao

PhD Candidate in Health Policy (G3, Methods for Policy Research)

Nikhil Rao graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2021 with a BS in Public Health through the Department of Health Policy and Management and a second major in Psychology. Prior to beginning studies at Harvard, Nikhil worked as a...

Jenna Rogers

PhD Candidate in Health Policy (G4, Decision Sciences)

Jenna Rogers graduated with University Honors from the University of Missouri in 2022, earning a B.S. in Psychology and Statistics. As an undergraduate, she worked within the Quantitative Psychology Department for three years in the Medical Decision...

Sarah Rosenthal

PhD Candidate in Health Policy (G1, Management)

Sarah Rosenthal graduated from Rice University with a BA in Political Science in 2020. After graduation, she worked in a bioinformatics lab at Stanford University as a data analyst for a study on how different cancer therapies affected patient reported...

Ilana Salant

PhD Candidate in Health Policy (G6, Economics)

Ilana Salant is a 6th year PhD student in Health Policy and Economics at Harvard. She received her bachelor's degree in Economics from Barnard College in 2016. While attending Barnard, Ilana interned at the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics...

Carolyn San Soucie

PhD Candidate in Health Policy (G5, Methods for Policy Research)

Carolyn San Soucie graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2018 with a Bachelor of Science and Arts in Biochemistry and a Bachelor of Arts in Plan II Honors, an interdisciplinary liberal arts degree. Concurrently, she received a graduate...

Ye Shen

PhD Candidate in Health Policy (G6, Decision Sciences)

Ye Shen is a PhD candidate in the Harvard PhD Program in Health Policy (Decision Sciences). Her research spans two fields: 1) health decision science and 2) health services, outcomes, and policy research. At their intersection, Ye's core research agenda...

Jacob Sims Speyer

PhD Candidate in Health Policy (G2, Economics)

Jacob Sims Speyer graduated in 2021 from the University of Chicago with a B.A. in Public Policy and a minor in Statistics. During his undergraduate studies, Jacob was a research assistant for Dr. Kerwin Charles, where he analyzed underemployment issues...