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Reza Yaesoubi, PhD

Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy)
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Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Foundations of Data Science

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Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy)

Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Foundations of Data Science

Biography

Dr. Yaesoubi is a health decision scientist with focus on developing and applying analytical methods to inform decision making in public health and medicine. His expertise is in developing methods to guide decisions when the evidence base and data are shifting too quickly for any static policy or guideline to suffice (e.g., during outbreaks of novel pathogens or spread of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens). Through incorporating computer simulation models, statistical and machine learning methods, and optimization techniques, he has developed mechanisms to combine data and evidence from disparate sources to inform cost-effective decisions in real-time. He has applied these methods to optimize public health responses to the spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis, antimicrobial-resistant gonorrhea, COVID-19, influenza, and meningitis. He is also interested in and contributed to the theoretical and methodological issues in medical decision-making and health care resource allocation.

Appointments

Other Departments & Organizations

Education & Training

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Brigham and Women’s Hospital (2014)
Post-Doctoral Research Staff
IBM Research (2011)
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Brigham and Women’s Hospital (2010)
PhD
North Carolina State University, Industrial and Systems Engineering (2010)
MSc
North Carolina State University, Industrial and Systems Engineering (2006)
BS
Sharif University of Technology, Industrial Engineering (2004)

Research

Overview

Medical Research Interests

Communicable Disease Control; Communicable Diseases; Communicable Diseases, Emerging; Computational Biology; Computer Simulation; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Costs and Cost Analysis; COVID-19; Data Science; Decision Theory; Decision Trees; Disease Transmission, Infectious; Drug Resistance, Microbial; Epidemics; Global Health; Gonorrhea; Health Priorities; Health Resources; Influenza, Human; Machine Learning; Mathematical Computing; Mathematics; Medical Informatics; Meningitis; Operations Research; Pandemics; Public Health Informatics; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Technology Assessment, Biomedical; Tuberculosis

Public Health Interests

Infectious Diseases; Health Policy; Modeling; Sexually-Transmitted Infections; Stochastic Processes; Tuberculosis; COVID-19; Disease Transmission; Bioinformatics; Antimicrobial Resistance; Applied Probability; Global Health; Health Care Management; Health Informatics

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Reza Yaesoubi's published research.

Publications

2024

2023

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