Research

My research uses decision modeling, microsimulation, and applied health economics to translate clinical and epidemiologic evidence into actionable health policy. I am especially interested in how regulatory and economic frameworks shape outcomes in women’s health, AI in medicine, and comparative health systems.

Research Themes

Decision Science for Public Health

Markov, microsimulation, and expected-value decision-analytic models for evaluating clinical and policy interventions. Recent and ongoing work spans maternal-infant outcomes, type 2 diabetes therapy, and chronic disease prevention.

Regulation of AI in Medicine

How regulatory frameworks should adapt to clinical artificial intelligence — balancing innovation, patient safety, equity, and access. My MSc thesis at Erasmus University Rotterdam in this area was awarded Thesis of the Year in Health Economics, Policy & Law.

Women’s & Maternal Health

Quantitative work on maternal and reproductive health outcomes, including microsimulation models of the joint effects of smoking and e-cigarette use on maternal and infant health.

Comparative Health Systems & Global Health Governance

Cross-country institutional design and benefit-sharing in global health, including peer-reviewed work on fair benefit-sharing frameworks in Health Affairs Scholar.

Current Projects

Smoking, E-cigarette use & Pregnancy (SEP) Microsimulation A first-author microsimulation model estimating maternal and infant health benefits of a U.S. nicotine product standard. medRxiv preprint, 2025 — under review. Read the preprint.

Cost-Effectiveness of First-Line Therapy in Type 2 Diabetes Markov decision-analytic comparison of metformin vs. SGLT2 inhibitors as first-line therapy. Co-authored with Reza Yaesoubi (Yale HPM). Presented at SMDM 46th Annual Meeting, Boston, 2024.

Tobacco Simulation Modeling of Maternal Health (Yale) Microsimulation models linking smoking and e-cigarette behavior to maternal and infant outcomes using National Vital Statistics System data.

Methods

Decision modeling · Cost-effectiveness analysis · Microsimulation · Markov modeling · Regression analysis · Systematic review and meta-analysis · Health technology assessment · Reproducible research workflows in R

Selected Publications

A curated list of selected publications and the full peer-reviewed record is available on the Publications page, on Google Scholar, and on ORCID.