- Risha Gidwani, Dr.P.H.
Senior policy researcher, RAND Corporation and adjunct associate professor, UCLA School of Public Health
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Risha Gidwani, DrPH is a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation and an adjunct associate professor at the UCLA School of Public Health. She uses both econometric and decision analysis methods to evaluate the value of healthcare. Dr. Gidwani's work focuses on benefit design, cost-effectiveness, patient financial burden, and health policy. She has studied quality of care, health system costs, patient out-of-pocket costs, patient-reported outcomes, utilities, disparities, value-based purchasing, and the comparative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions. Much of her work has compared health system performance across Medicare and VA, often focusing on cancer and end-of-life care.