A new comprehensive landscape analysis of Medicaid health behavior incentive programs gathers together many challenges and potential solutions in the latest issue of Health Affairs. In 2017-2018 the team interviewed 80 key-informant stakeholders and searched the literature. The most common incentive type offered by programs was gift cards or vouchers, including cash, Visa gift cards, specific venue…
The Irish Department of Health (DoH) is in the process of developing a national biosimilar medicines policy which aims to increase biosimilar use by creating a robust framework where biologicals and biosimilars can be used safely, cost-effectively, and confidently in the health service. In this example from an Irish teaching hospital, the introduction of the biosimilar first to new patients, along with a switching study executed in parallel, helped to raise prescriber confidence.
@AcademyHealth #ARM2018 attendees: join me on Monday at 3:15 pm in room 605-606, where Anirban Basu will present our work in collaboration with the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to quantify the potential economic impact of the findings from comparative-effectiveness research studies. Goal Our goal was to understand the potential benefits of implementing comparative-effectiveness…
While preparing a review for the journal Current HIV/AIDS Reports, I uncovered some interesting longitudinal trends in the care cascade and heterogeneity in the progress of US states. The following visualizations describe CDC HIV surveillance data from 2010-2014. They didn’t make the cut for our review paper, and they are too beautiful and interesting to…
On Tuesday, April 17, the journal Nature Scientific Reports published our paper “Projected effectiveness and added value of HIV vaccination campaigns in South Africa: A modeling study.” A few hours later, a reporter from BBC World Service reached out to discuss the the results of our study. Live Interview You can listen to this clip with…
An Invitation Please join us at my doctoral dissertation defense titled “Mathematical Models to Evaluate the Clinical and Economic Impact of Biomedical HIV Prevention Strategies in the United States” at 12:30 pm on Thursday, May 3, 2018 at the Washington Research Foundation (WRF) Data Science Studio on the 6th floor of the Physics/Astronomy Tower at the University of Washington…
Failure to consider these methods could result in unintended consequences and exacerbate existing inequalities in health between patients who are “average” and “outliers.”
Lipira and colleagues recently published this comprehensive review article framing a research agenda to evaluate the impact of the Affordable Care Act (commonly called the “ACA” or “Obamacare”) on HIV care, outcomes, prevention, and disparities. Lipira and colleagues identified several challenges to comprehensive HIV care that could be remedied with informed programming and policy. First, the ACA does…
This is the story of how I met the most powerful man in the European Union and found my picture with him in a German newspaper. Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank, attended the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting to deliver a keynote address to hundreds of Ph.D. Economics students (including me) and 19…