Elmar Aliyev
Undergraduate Education: Bachelor of Science, Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Interests: Healthcare Access, Healthcare Markets, Health Outcomes, Pharmaceutical Economics, Pharmaceutical Pricing
Research Project or Thesis Title: Health economic issues in chronic diseases with expensive biologic therapies
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Joel W. Hay
Year of Study: 4th
Hyo Jung “Yuna” Bae-Shaaw
Undergraduate Education: Bachelor of Science, General Biology, UC San Diego
Graduate Education: Doctor of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Research Interests: Healthcare Access, Health Outcomes, Health Policy, Pharmaceutical Economics
Research Project or Thesis Title: Dementia and medication use in elderly
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Geoffrey Joyce
Year of Study: 4th
Sang Kyu Cho
Graduate Education: Doctor of Pharmacy, St. John’s University; Masters of Public Health, Health Policy and Management, Columbia University
Research Interests: Generic Drugs, Healthcare Access, Healthcare Markets, Healthcare Reform, Health Economics, Health Insurance, Health Outcomes, Health Policy, Pharmaceutical Economics, Pharmaceutical Pricing
Research Project or Thesis Title: Health economics and outcomes research in rapidly evolving therapeutic area
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jeffrey McCombs
Year of Study: 4th
Benjamin “Ben” Cohen
Undergraduate Education: Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, Pitzer College
Graduate Education: Master of Public Health, Health Policy and Management, Columbia University
Research Interests: Healthcare Access, Healthcare Markets, Healthcare Reform, Health Economics, Health Insurance, Health Outcomes, Health Policy, Pharmaceutical Economics, Pharmaceutical Pricing
Research Project or Thesis Title: Costs and benefits of spending on chronic conditions
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dana Goldman
Year of Study: 4th
Samuel “Sam” Crawford
Undergraduate Education: Bachelor of Arts, Neuroscience, Pomona College
Graduate Education: Master of Science, Healthcare Decision Analysis, University of Southern California
Research Interests: Healthcare Access, Healthcare Markets, Healthcare Reform, Health Economics, Health Insurance, Health Outcomes, Health Policy, Pharmaceutical Economics, Pharmaceutical Pricing
Research Project or Thesis Title: Targeted health services for personalized medicine: evaluating the spectrum of health care and access
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Seth Seabury
Year of Study: 2nd
Jing Gu
Undergraduate Education: Bachelor of Science, Biology, Peking University
Graduate Education: Master of Public Health, Health Policy and Management, Columbia University
Research Interests: Healthcare Markets, Healthcare Reform, Health Economics, Health Insurance, Health Outcomes, Health Policy
Research Project or Thesis Title: Value in health in the era of vertical integration
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Neeraj Sood
Year of Study: 4th
Bryan Innis
Undergraduate Education: Bachelor of Science, Biology, Philosophy (Double Major), Boston College
Research Interests: Health Economics, Health Outcomes, Health Policy, Pharmaceutical Economics, Pharmaceutical Pricing
Research Project or Thesis Title: Antihypertensives: impact of therapeutic class and duration of therapy on costs and outcomes in the US
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jeff McCombs
Year of Study: 2nd
Marcella Kelley
Undergraduate Education: Bachelor of Science, Neurobiology, Georgetown University
Graduate Education: Master of Health Science, Health Economics, Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health
Research Interests: Behavioral Economics, Healthcare Access, Health Economics, Health Outcomes, Health Policy, Machine Learning, Pharmaceutical Economics
Research Project or Thesis Title: Comparative effectiveness of two letters to encourage judicious prescribing of opioids: a county-wide project in Los Angeles
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jason Doctor
Year of Study: 2nd
Jaehong Kim
Undergraduate Education: Bachelor of Arts, Economics, Korea University
Graduate Education: Master of Arts, Economics, Korea University
Research Interests: Healthcare Markets, Health Economics, Health Insurance, Health Outcomes, Health Policy, Pharmaceutical Economics
Research Project or Thesis Title: Heterogenous patent-race and R&D investment in the pharmaceutical industry
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Darius Lakdawalla
Year of Study: 4th
Jenny Lam
Undergraduate Education: Bachelor of Arts, Molecular Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Graduate Education: Master of Science, Clinical Translational Science, University of California, Davis; Doctor of Medicine, University of California, Davis
Research Interests: Generic Drugs, Healthcare Access, Healthcare Markets, Healthcare Reform, Health Economics, Health Insurance, Health Outcomes, Health Policy, Pharmaceutical Economics, Pharmaceutical Pricing
Research Project or Thesis Title: Adult respiratory disease in US
Faculty Advisor: Dr. John Romley
Year of Study: 4th
Ning Ning
Undergraduate Education: Bachelor of Science, Pharmaceutical Sciences, China Pharmaceutical University
Graduate Education: Master of Science, Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy, University of Southern California
Research Interests: Health Economics, Health Outcomes, Health Policy
Research Project or Thesis Title: Long-term trends in quality, cost and productivity of surgical care in 2002-2014
Faculty Advisor: Dr. John Romley
Year of Study: 6th
Jonathan Salcedo
Undergraduate Education: Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics, Economics (Double Major), California State University, Fresno
Graduate Education: Master of Arts, Economics, Duke University
Research Interests: Health Outcomes, Pharmaceutical Economics, Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Research Project or Thesis Title: Essays in health economics
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Darius Lakdawalla
Year of Study: 4th
Roxanna “Roxy” Seyedin
Undergraduate Education: Bachelor of Science, Economics/International Area Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Graduate Education: Master of Science, Public Health, University of Southern California
Research Interests: Health Economics, Health Outcomes, Health Policy, Pharmaceutical Economics
Research Project or Thesis Title: Adherence and clinical outcomes in patients with major depressive disorder
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jeff McCombs
Year of Study: 6th
Yifan Wei
Undergraduate Education: Bachelor of Science, Biology, Peking University
Graduate Education: Master of Science, Health Policy and Management, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Interests: Health Economics, Health Outcomes, Pharmaceutical Economics
Research Project or Thesis Title: Fexapotide triflutate versus pharmacotherapy as initial therapy for patients with moderate-to-severe benign prostate hyperplasia: a cost-effectiveness analysis
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Joel W. Hay
Year of Study: 2nd
Si Xuan
Undergraduate Education: Bachelor of Science, Economics, University of Delaware
Graduate Education: Master of Public Health, Yale University
Research Interests: Healthcare Access, Health Economics, Health Outcomes, Pharmaceutical Economics, Pharmaceutical Pricing
Research Project or Thesis Title: Evaluating adherence and the clinical and economic effects of adherence to pharmacotherapy for type 2 diabetes
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jeffrey McCombs
Year of Study: 4th
Hsin-Yun Yang
Undergraduate Education: Bachelor of Science, Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University
Graduate Education: Master of Science, Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy, University of Southern California
Research Interests: Healthcare Access, Health Outcomes
Research Project or Thesis Title: Chronic disease burden among older people living with HIV/AIDS
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dana Goldman
Year of Study: 4th
Jeffrey Yu
Undergraduate Education: Bachelor of Arts, Economics, Biology (Double Major), Bowdoin College
Graduate Education: Master of Health Science, Health Economics, Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests: Healthcare Markets, Health Economics, Health Insurance, Pharmaceutical Economics, Pharmaceutical Pricing, Innovative payment models, Curative Therapies, Technology, Machine Learning
Research Project or Thesis Title: Essays on the societal impact and financing of preventive and curative therapies
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dana Goldman
Year of Study: 2nd
Nadine Zawadzki
Undergraduate Education: Bachelor of Science, Public Health, Tulane University
Graduate Education: Master of Public Health, Health Policy, Tulane University
Research Interests: Health Economics, Health Policy, Pharmaceutical Economics
Research Project or Thesis Title: Using cost effectiveness for health care value appraisal; with applications in cardiovascular disease
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Joel Hay
Year of Study: 2nd