Fernando Alarid-Escudero, PhD

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Fernando Alarid-Escudero is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy at Stanford University School of Medicine, and the head of the Project of Decision Analysis in Uncertain Contexts (PADeCI). He obtained his Ph.D. in Health Decision Sciences from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

Current research

His research focuses on developing statistical and decision-analytic models to identify optimal prevention, control, and treatment policies to address a wide range of public health problems regionally, nationally, and internationally, and develops novel methods to quantify the value of future research. Dr. Alarid-Escudero is part of the Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET), a consortium of NCI-sponsored investigators that includes modeling to improve our understanding of the impact of cancer control interventions (e.g., prevention, screening, and treatment) on population trends in incidence and mortality.

Co-founder

Dr. Alarid-Escudero co-founded the Stanford-CIDE Coronavirus Simulation Modeling (SC-COSMO) workgroup. He also co-founded the Decision Analysis in R for Technologies in Health (DARTH) workgroup and the Collaborative Network on Value of Information (ConVOI), international and multi-institutional collaborative efforts where we develop transparent and open-source solutions to implement decision analysis and quantify the value of potential future investigation for health policy analysis.

Media coverage

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Awards

He has received numerous awards, including the Lee B. Lusted Student prize from the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) in 2014, 2015, and 2016, membership to the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health, Pi Chapter, elected trustee for SMDM, and COVID-19 Decision Modeling Initiative (CDMI) Leader by SMDM. His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S., The Open Society Foundations (OSF), the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, SMDM, Stanford University, University of Minnesota, and the State of Hidalgo in Mexico.