Anirban Basu is a Professor of Health Economics and a statistician. He is the Stergachis Family Endowed Director of The CHOICE Institute at the University of Washington, Seattle, and holds joint appointments with the Departments of Health Services and Economics at UW.
Dr. Basu is a Research Associate at the US National Bureau of Economic Research, and an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
His work sits at the intersection of microeconomics, statistics, and health policy. His research focuses on understanding the economic value of health care, generating causal evidence, and, lately, on the potential for discrimination with machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms.
Dr. Basu's research has appeared in some of the leading journals in Health Economics, Statistics, Health Services Research and Policy, and Clinical Sciences. His work has been covered by several media outlets.
He served on the 2nd Panel on Cost-effectiveness Analysis in Health and Medicine and as an Associate Editor for Health Economics and the Journal of Health Economics. Currently he serves as as Associate Editor for Observational Studies and as an Editorial Advisory Board Member for Value in Health Journal.
Dr. Basu is a recipient of many academic honors including the 2018 Mid-Career Excellence Award from the Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association, 2007 and 2016 Research Excellence Award for Methodological Excellence and the 2009 Bernie O’Brien New Investigator Award from the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, the 2008 Alan Williams Health Economics Fellowship from the University of York, UK and the 2009 Labelle Lectureship in Health Economics from McMaster University, Canada.
He received his master's in Biostatistics from UNC-Chapel Hill and a PhD in Public Policy Studies from the University of Chicago, where he remained as a faculty from 2004 - 2010.
