The Health Policy Data Science Lab is a group of interdisciplinary researchers at Harvard and Stanford led by Laura Hatfield and Sherri Rose. We develop and apply quantitative methods to solve problems in health policy, leveraging techniques from statistics, economics, and machine learning.

Our areas of scientific interest are broad, spanning trade-offs for multiple health outcomes, causal inference, computational health economics, comparative effectiveness research, and payment reform impact evaluation.

What unites the Lab is an emphasis on pre-specified and transparent methodological choices, sound statistical decision making, data-motivated methodology development in the area of health policy, and effective presentation of results.