Charles E. Phelps, PhD, is University Professor and Provost
Emeritus at the University of Rochester. He has previously served
as Director of RAND's Program on Regulatory Policies and
Institutions and helped found the RAND Health Insurance Study. He
is the author of more than one hundred peer-reviewed articles in
health economics and policy and the foundational textbook, Health
Economics. He has been a member of the National Academy of
Medicine since 1991 and he received the Victor R. Fuchs Award for
Lifetime Contributions to the Field of Health Economics from the
American Society of Health Economists in 2019. He currently serves
as a consultant to the Innovation
and Value Initiative and the Office of Health Economics in the
United Kingdom.
Darius Lakdawalla, PhD, is Quintiles Professor of Pharmaceutical
Development and Regulatory Innovation, Professor of Pharmaceutical
Economics and Public Policy, and Director of Research at the
Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the
University of Southern California. Dr. Lakdawalla is currently a
research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and
an associate editor for The Journal of Health Economics. He
previously served as
Associate Editor at the Review of Economics and Statistics and the
American Journal of Health Economics. The author of over one
hundred peer-reviewed articles across economics, medicine, and
health policy, Dr. Lakdawalla has
been awarded the Garfield Prize, the Milken Institute Award for
Distinguished Economic Research, and the International Society for
Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Excellence in
Research Methodology Award.
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