Company: Harvard University, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
Title: Deputy Director, Center for Health Decision Science; Senior Research Scientist, Center for Health Decision Science and Center for Risk Analysis
Lisa A. Robinson’s research focuses on estimating the positive and negative impacts of risk-reducing public policies. She has led numerous assessments of the costs, benefits, and other effects of environmental, health, and safety policies and regulations, developed related methods, and drafted guidance documents. These include benefit-cost analysis guidelines for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services regulations and for global public health interventions, as well as approaches for estimating the value of mortality risk reductions (the value per statistical life, VSL) for several government agencies and other organizations. She has explored numerous other methodological issues, for example related to behavioral economics, innovative welfare measures, distributional equity, and ethical concerns. She applies these methods in high-, middle-, and low-income settings across numerous policy sectors.
