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Professor of Public Health and Management Sciences

Professor Paltiel aims to promote a reasoned approach to choices in the health sector. An expert in the field of pharmacoeconomics and disease modeling, he has published on the cost-effectiveness of a variety of medical technologies, pharmaceutical products, and public health activities. He has advised both industry and government on issues of health resource allocation and decision making. Professor Paltiel maintains a special interest in chronic disease modeling (notably HIV/AIDS and asthma) and is the recipient of research grant support from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the National Institute on Mental Health, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Consultancies
Institute of Medicine

Selected Articles
"Modeling the Potential Impact of a Prescription Drug Co-Payment Increase on the Adult Asthmatic Medicaid Population" (with S.J. Bae, A.L. Fuhlbrigge, S.T. Weiss, and K.M. Kuntz), Value in Health, forthcoming

"Social Costs of Robbery and the Cost-Effectiveness of Substance Abuse Treatment" (with A. Basu and H.A. Pollack), Health Economics, forthcoming.

"Cost-Effectiveness of Omalizumab in Adults with Severe Asthma: Results from the Asthma Policy Model" (with A.C. Wu, K.M. Kuntz, S.T. Weiss, and A.L. Fuhlbrigge), Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, forthcoming.

"Cost-Effectiveness of HIV Screening and Care in the United States" (with R.P. Walensky, K.A. Freedberg, and M.C. Weinstein), Clinical Infectious Diseases, forthcoming

"Predicting the Impact of a Partially Effective HIV Vaccine and Subsequent Risk Behavior Change on the Heterosexual HIV Epidemic in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A South African Example" (with K.M. Andersson, D.K. Owens, E. Vardas, G.E. Gray, and J.A. McIntyre), Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, Vol. 46, 78–90, 2007

"The Effect of Antiretroviral Therapy on Secondary Transmission of HIV among Men Who Have Sex with Men" (with A.W. McCormick, R.P. Walensky, M. Lipsitch, E. Losina, H. Hsu, M.C. Weinstein, K.A. Freedberg, and G.S.Seage) Clinical Infectious Diseases, Vol. 44, 1115-1122, 2007

"Rapid HIV Testing at Home: Does It Solve a Problem or Create One?" (with R.P. Walensky), Annals of Internal Medicine, Vol. 145, 459-462, 2006

"The Effect of Age and Chronic Illness on Life Expectancy after a Diagnosis of Colorectal Cancer: Implications for Screening" (with C.P. Gross, G.J. McAvay, H.M. Krumholz, D. Bhasin, and M.E. Tinetti), Annals of Internal Medicine, Vol. 145, 646-653, 2006

"Expanded HIV Screening in the United States: Effect on Clinical Outcomes, HIV Transmission, and Costs" (with R.P. Walensky, B.R. Schackman, G.R. Seage, L.M. Mercincavage, M.C. Weinstein, and K.A. Freedberg), Annals of Internal Medicine, Vol. 145, 797-806, 2006

"Expanded HIV Screening in the United States - An Analysis of Cost-effectiveness" (with M.C. Weinstein, A.D. Kimmel, G.R. Seage, E. Losina, H. Zhang, K.A. Freedberg, and R.P. Walensky), New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 352, 586-595, 2005

Education
PhD Yale University, 1992
MBA Yale University, 1985
BA McGill University, 1981