Stephen Resch
Dr. Stephen Resch is the Deputy Director of the Center for Health Dec
ision Science. Dr. Resch currently holds an adjunct faculty appointment in the Department of Health Policy and Management and serves as the co-director of the Decision Science Working Group at the Harvard University Initiative for Global Health.
ision Science. Dr. Resch currently holds an adjunct faculty appointment in the Department of Health Policy and Management and serves as the co-director of the Decision Science Working Group at the Harvard University Initiative for Global Health. Dr. Resch’s primary research interests include the evaluation of public health programs, the improvement of health care operations, and adapting decision analytic methods to important public health challenges. He has a broad understanding of health policy and extensive training in policy modeling, simulation, microeconomics, decision theory, operations research, and infectious disease epidemiology. He received his Masters in Public Health from Yale University in 2001 and a doctoral degree in Health Policy (decision science concentration) from Harvard University in 2006.
Dr. Resch has had a longstanding commitment to evidence-based policy, closely coupling his research with program development and evaluation in the field. Between 1999 and 2001, Dr. Resch designed and led a program evaluation of public prenatal care in the U.S. Virgin Islands commissioned by HRSA’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau. While at Harvard, as part of his doctoral research, he developed computer-based simulation models of tuberculosis and HIV epidemics to estimate the future burden of disease from these epidemics and the cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis control strategies in international settings. Since 2006, Dr. Resch has been an Associate at Abt working in the arenas of both domestic and international health policy. He has served as the principal investigator and/or technical leader of a diverse number of projects, ranging from the provision of primary care in U.S. jails to the assessment of financial sustainability and human resource needs of HIV programs in Africa.
As the Deputy Director of the Center for Health Decision Science, Dr. Resch plays a key leadership role in developing a 5-year strategic plan, implementing an operations and management plan, and creating iterative mechanisms to assess our progress. In addition to engagement on some of our high priority sponsored research, he will teach in the decision science curriculum, including cost-effectiveness analysis.