Dr Joshua Salomon

Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Professor of Medicine for the Center for Health Policy and Center for Primary Care Outcomes and Research

Biography

Joshua Salomon is a Professor of Medicine and a core faculty member in the Center for Health Policy and the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research. His research focuses on priority-setting in global health, within three main substantive areas on measurement and valuation of health outcomes; modelling patterns and trends in major causes of global mortality and disease burden; and evaluation of health interventions and policies.

Dr Salomon is an investigator on projects funded by the Centers for Disease Control, National Institutes of Health and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, relating to modelling of infectious and chronic diseases and associated intervention strategies; methods for economic evaluation of public health programmes; measurement of the global burden of disease; and assessment of the potential impact and cost-effectiveness of new health technologies.

He is Director of the Prevention Policy Modeling Lab, which is a multi-institution research consortium that conducts health and economic modelling relating to infectious diseases. Before joining Stanford Faculty, Dr Salomon was Professor of Global Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.