Bio
Ye Shen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Decision Sciences track of the Health Policy program at Harvard University. She is interested in using disease simulation modeling, decision analytic, and policy evaluation methods to better inform health policy topics intersecting the social safety net for underserved and vulnerable populations. Ye's current work includes: 1) projection of health and dental insurance and routine utilization patterns during childhood in the United States; 2) decision-analytic evaluation of medical-dental integration strategies for children in Medicaid or Children's Health Insurance Program; 3) quasi-experimental evaluation of the National Health Service Corps expansion on dental utilization in dental professional shortage areas; 4) modeling the dynamics of disordered weight control behaviors and eating disorders in Canada using microsimulation with Bayesian calibration.
Ye graduated from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health with an MSPH in international health - human nutrition and a certificate in public health economics. She received her BA in international relations from Tufts University. Before entering the Ph.D. program, Ye was a cost-effectiveness specialist and data analyst for a project supporting USAID's food and nutrition assistance activities at Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. While pursuing her Master’s, Ye conducted GIS research in a mixed-methods study of American Indian reservations. She also worked for the World Health Organization (WHO) and consulted for the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN).
