Boshen Jiao, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical and Health Economics and a Scholar at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California. His research develops and applies advanced methods in economic evaluation, health outcomes research, and value of information analysis to address policy-relevant questions in healthcare. More recently, his work has also focused on incentives for medical innovation. His research has informed value assessment guidelines developed by health technology assessment bodies and academic societies.
Dr. Jiao has received multiple academic honors, including three awards from ISPOR: the Bernie J. O’Brien New Investigator Award, the HEOR Excellence in Methodology Award, and the Best General Podium Presentation Award. He has also received the Lee B. Lusted Prize from SMDM and the CHE Research Fellowship Award from the University of York. His research has been published in numerous leading journals in health economics, health policy, and clinical medicine, and has also received media coverage. He serves on the editorial board of PharmacoEconomics. Before joining USC, Dr. Jiao completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. He earned his PhD in Health Economics and Outcomes Research from the University of Washington, his MPH from the EHESP French School of Public Health, and his BA in Economics from Fudan University.