Health Economics and Decision Analysis at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention III
The CDC employs over 80 economists who assess the public health impact of policies, programs, and practices by determining their effectiveness, quality, and cost, making the Agency the largest employer of health economists and quantitative policy analysts in the federal government. Many of these economists are graduates of the CDC Steven M. Teutsch Prevention Effectiveness (PE) Fellowship, the largest post-doctoral training program in health economics in the US. Economists at CDC have led the field use of econometric, decision, simulation, and operations analysis and modeling to understand determinants of health, morbidity, mortality, health inequalities, healthcare use, and expenditures. These economists are especially prolific with over 700 scientific publications over the past decade, many of these key publications in the field. This session will be introduced with a short overview of health economics at CDC and provide a brief introduction to the PE Fellowship: its mission, operations, and examples of work resulting from the fellowship. This will be followed by applied public health economics presentations representing the breadth of economics research at CDC within each topical category.