Darius Lakdawalla

Darius Lakdawalla is the American Director of Research at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California and a managing director and founding partner of Precision Health Economics, a health care consulting firm. Until autumn 2009, he was the Director of Research at the Bing Center for Health Economics at the RAND Corporation.

Lakdawalla has research interests in the economics of risks to health and the organization of health care markets. Specifically, he has published papers that explore the reasons behind the declining use of nursing homes by the elderly, rising rates of obesity in America, acceleration in the rate of new HIV infections and the growth in disability among younger Americans.

Lakdawalla earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago and his Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy and Mathematics, summa cum laude from Amherst College. His work has been published in leading journals of economics, medicine, and health policy, and funded by the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also a past winner of the annual Milken Institute Distinguished Economic Research Award for best research in the field of economics and winner of the Garfield Award for best research on the economics of medical innovation.

Lakdawalla sits on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals including the BE Press Forum on Health Economics and Policy, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics and is a member of the American Economic Association and the International Health Economics Association. He is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and National Bureau of Economic Research and has received popular press mentions in the The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Economist.

Some of his published articles include “How Cancer Patients Value Hope and the Implications for Cost-Effectiveness Assessments of High-Cost Cancer Therapies”[1] in Health Affairs, “An Economic Evaluation of the War on Cancer”[2] in Journal of Health Economics and “Catastrophe Bonds, Reinsurance and the Optimal Collateralization of Risk Transfer”[3] in The Journal of Risk and Insurance.

Personal life

Lakdawalla is married to the science journalist Emily Lakdawalla. They have two daughters. Darius Lakdawalla is of Indian parsi descent.

References

  1. ↑ Darius N. Lakdawalla. "How Cancer Patients Value Hope And The Implications For Cost-Effectiveness Assessments Of High-Cost Cancer Therapies". Content.healthaffairs.org. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
  2. ↑ "An Economic Evaluation of the War on Cancer". NBER. Retrieved 18 November 2014.
  3. ↑ "Catastrophe Bonds, Reinsurance, and the Optimal Collateralization of Risk-Transfer". NBER. Retrieved 18 November 2014.

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