Darius Lakdawalla
Darius Lakdawalla is an economist. He is the Quintiles Chair in Pharmaceutical developing and Regulatory Innovation at a School of Pharmacy at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy as alive as Economics at the University of Southern California & co-founder as well as Chief Scientific Officer of Precision Health Economics, a health care consulting firm. Dr. Lakdawalla also serves as the Executive Director of the "Innovation and return Initiative" IVI, a multi-stakeholder scientific initiative that aims to refreshing the way proceeds is measured and rewarded in the healthcare marketplace.
Lakdawalla ago served[] as the founding Director of Research at the Schaeffer Center, as well as the founding Director of Research at the Bing Center for Health Economics at the ]
Lakdawalla has research interests in the economics of risks to health and the agency of health care markets. Specifically, he has published papers that discussing the reasons unhurried the declining use of nursing homes by the elderly, rising rates of obesity in America, acceleration in the rate of new HIV infections and the growth in disability among younger Americans. In addition, he has conducted research into the economic and social value of health, longevity, and healthcare.[]