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  • Papanicolas

    Irene Papanicolas Ph.D.

    Director of the Center for Health System Sustainability, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice
    irene_papanicolas@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Irene is a Professor of Health Services Policy and Practice at the Brown School of Public Health. Prior to joining Brown, Irene was a faculty member at the London School of Economics. She also holds visiting research appointments at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the European Observatory of Health Systems and Policy. Irene’s research is focused on assessing the performance of health systems and furthering the use of health system comparisons to draw insights for national policy makers. Her work has informed performance measurement and health system comparative efforts of national and international bodies such as the WHO, OECD, and the European Commission. Irene leads the International Collaborative on Costs, Outcomes and Needs in Care (ICCONIC), which has received funding from the Commonwealth Fund and the Health Foundation. 
     

Faculty

  • Wouters

    Olivier Wouters Ph.D.

    Associate Professor
    olivier_wouters@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Olivier J. Wouters, PhD, is an associate professor at Brown University's School of Public Health (Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice) and a visiting faculty member at Harvard Medical School (Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics). He was previously an assistant professor at the London School of Economics. Olivier researches and teaches pharmaceutical policy and regulation. He has published in top health policy and medical journals, including Health Affairs, JAMA, The Lancet, and NEJM. In 2021, Olivier received the London School of Economics’ Excellence in Education Award for “outstanding teaching contribution and educational leadership.” Olivier has a master's degree in health economics and a PhD in health policy from the London School of Economics. He holds an undergraduate degree in international relations from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

  • ritesh maharaj

    Ritesh Maharaj MD, Ph.D.

    Visiting Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice
    ritesh_maharaj@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Ritesh Maharaj is a critical care physician at King’s College Hospital, London with previous teaching experience at the King’s College London School of Medicine. His research focuses on the organization of health services and its impact on health outcomes. He focuses on critical care services and the effects of centralization, specialization and organizational learning. He is currently researching the supply of critical care services and its impact on mortality.

  • Van Wilder

    Astrid Van Wilder Ph.D.

    Postdoctoral Research Associate in Health Services, Policy and Practice
    astrid_van_wilder@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Astrid Van Wilder has a background in pharmaceutical sciences, in which she obtained her MSc in 2016 at KU Leuven (Belgium) after a research stay at UCL School of Pharmacy (UK). While practicing pharmacy, she developed an interest in healthcare policy and patient safety, leading to the obtainment of an MSc in Healthcare Policy and Management in 2017 (KU Leuven, Belgium) and a PhD in Biomedical Sciences in 2023 (KU Leuven, Belgium) focusing on nationwide variability in patient outcomes across Belgian hospitals. Her current research at Brown University School of Public Health focuses on differences in health service organization, both within and across countries, and their impact on patient outcomes.

  • Viktoria Steinbeck

    Viktoria Steinbeck Ph.D.

    Harkness Fellow
    viktoria_steinbeck@brown.edu

    Viktoria Steinbeck is a 2024–25 Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice funded by the Commonwealth Fund. Her research focuses on the use of patient-reported outcomes to assess the quality of care and value-based healthcare (VBHC). Her research has been published in research outlets including JAMA Network Open, Value in Health, and others. As co-creator of the first VBHC course for German-speaking countries, she is engaged in teaching interdisciplinary cohorts about aligning incentives to achieve outcomes that matter to patients. She earned a PhD in Health Economics at the Berlin University of Technology, a Double MSc, in Health Economics and Management at Maastricht and Cologne University and a BSc in European Public Health at Maastricht University including research stays at Columbia University New York and Metropolitan University College Copenhagen. Steinbeck gained previous work experience with a variety of health care stakeholders, including the European Commission, Allianz Insurance and as an EU policy consultant in Brussels.

Research Partners

  • jon cyclus

    Jon Cylus Ph.D.

    European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
    j.d.cylus@lse.ac.uk
    Research Profile

    Jonathan Cylus is the head of the London Hubs of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and a Senior Research Fellow at LSE Health. His main research is on health systems, focusing primarily on health financing policy, health economics and health system performance. He has worked on these topics in a number of countries, including Cyprus, Liberia, Finland, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Slovenia and the United States, as well as with the European Commission, OECD and WHO. Jon is also interested in the role of social policies and other social determinants on health. Prior to joining the Observatory, Jonathan was an economist at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in the United States where he worked on health care expenditure projections, hospital productivity, and health care expenditure estimates by age and gender.

  • Ilias Kyriopoulos

    Ilias Kyriopoulos Ph.D.

    London School of Economics and Political Science
    I.Kyriopoulos@lse.ac.uk
    Research Profile

    Ilias Kyriopoulos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy at LSE and the Programme Co-Director of the MSc in Health Data Science. He previously worked as a Fellow and Research Associate at LSE. Prior to joining the Department, he was a Health Economist at the Athens School of Public Health. Ilias has also conducted research for or acted as a consultant to international governmental and non-governmental organisations, including the European Commission, the United Nations Development Programme, and the World Bank. Ilias's research mainly focuses on how economic uncertainty and policy impact population health and health systems. His interests also include inequalities in health and health care and the economics of mental health and well-being. His work has been published in various journals, including Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Health Economics, Social Science & Medicine, The Milbank Quarterly, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health etc.

  • Huseyin Naci

    Huseyin Naci M.H.S., Ph.D.

    London School of Economics and Political Science
    H.Naci@lse.ac.uk
    Research Profile

    Huseyin Naci is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Huseyin serves as co-director of LSE’s Executive Master of Science program in Health Economics, Outcomes and Management in Clinical Sciences. He is also one of the Deputy Directors of LSE Health. Huseyin’s research evaluates the quantity and quality of the evidence base underpinning the approval, adoption, reimbursement, and use of new pharmaceutical products in Europe and the US. His research has appeared in leading medical and health policy journals, including JAMA, The Lancet, The BMJ, Health Affairs, and The Milbank Quarterly. His 2013 article comparing the mortality benefits of drug and non-drug interventions for common chronic conditions was selected as one of the “Five key BMJ research papers to mark the decade.” In 2020, Huseyin jointly led the development of the Lancet Series on Comparative Effectiveness, which identified the shortcomings of the current research landscape on new drugs both before and after approval, and outlined key changes to the regulatory system that would be required to ensure that patients, clinicians, and payers have timely access to the data they need for decision making.

  • liana woskie

    Liana Woskie Ph.D.

    Tufts University
    liana.woskie@tufts.edu
    Research Profile

    Liana Woskie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health at Tufts University and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. Liana evaluates health system performance and the degree to which systems are held accountable to patients. Her dissertation (not yet published) provides the first quantification of a World Health Organization human rights framework on eliminating coercive female sterilization. She generates contemporary estimates of the prevalence and drivers of uninformed tubal ligation and uses quasi-experimental methods to assess health policies that effect female sterilization practice patterns. Her project: "Quantifying Structural Violence: Female Sterilization and Normalized State Repression in Healthcare," was awarded a H. F. Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Award for research on causes and manifestations of violence against women and the Horowitz Foundation Trustees' Award for most innovative approach to theory and/or methodology.

Staff

  •  Machado

    Sara Machado Ph.D.

    Research Scientist
    sara_machado@brown.edu
  • ONeill

    Emily O'Neill PharmD, Ph.D.

    Research Associate
    emily_oneill@brown.edu
  • Guha

    Moytrayee Guha MPH

    Project Director
    moytrayee_guha@brown.edu
  • Scott-Haughey

    Katie Scott-Haughey M.Ed.

    Project Director
    katie_scott-haughey@brown.edu
  • Wei

    Jinru Wei M.Sc.

    Biostatistician
    jinru_wei@brown.edu
  •  Niksch

    Maecey Niksch B.A.

    Data Analyst
    maecey_niksch@brown.edu
  • Sierra Headshot

    Sierra Ottilie-Kovelman MPH

    Senior Research Assistant
    sierra_ottilie-kovelman@brown.edu

Affiliated Students

  • E. Desai

    Eesha Desai, MS

    PhD Student
    eesha_desai@brown.edu
  • Chris Kourkoulakos

    Chris Kourkoulakos

    Undergraduate Student
    chris_kourkoulakos@brown.edu
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