Darius Lakdawalla, Quintiles Chair in Pharmaceutical and Regulatory Innovation at USC Mann, has been appointed University Professor, one of USC’s highest academic distinctions.
Lakdawalla is a widely published, award-winning researcher and a leading authority in both health economics and health policy. He is also the Chief Scientific Officer at the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, one of the nation’s premier health policy research centers. With his work published in leading journals of economics, medicine, and health policy, Dr. Lakdawalla’s research focuses primarily on the economics of health risks, the value and determinants of medical innovation, the economics of health insurance markets, and the industrial organization of healthcare markets. He became an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2025.