Departmental Affiliations
Research Interests
health economics; vaccines; international health; health systems; economic evaluation; health financing; cost-effectiveness; cost of illness; return-on-investment; vaccine investment case; catastrophic health expenditures; aging populations; elder care
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Experiences & Accomplishments
Education
MHS
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
2017
BA
Kenyon College
2012
Overview
My research provides economic rationale for introducing and sustaining financing for health interventions in resource-limited countries. My current projects focus on collecting primary cost data, modeling averted cost of illness and estimating the broader economic impact of vaccines using value-of-statistical-life methods.
Honors & Awards
Phi Beta Kappa, Kenyon College, 2012
Magna cum Laude, Kenyon College, 2012
Thomas Au ’69 and Jack Au ’73 Chinese Prize, Kenyon College, 2012
Magna cum Laude, Kenyon College, 2012
Thomas Au ’69 and Jack Au ’73 Chinese Prize, Kenyon College, 2012
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Most recent publications
- So Yoon Sim*, Elizabeth Watts*, Dagna Constenla, Logan Brenzel, Bryan Patenaude (2020). Return on Investment from Immunization Programs Against 10 Pathogens in 94 Low- and Middle-Income Countries from 2011-2030 [Accepted for publication]. (*joint first author)
- Karuna Luthra, Elizabeth Watts, Frederic Debellut, Clint Pecenka, Naor Bar-Zeev, Dagna Constenla (2019). A review of the economic evidence of typhoid fever and typhoid vaccines. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 68(Suppl. 2), S83–S95. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciy1122
Projects
Decade of Vaccine Economics