Public speaking is one of my favorite parts of my job! I approach research talks from a storytelling lens, and tailor each one for its audience. I've given over 100 invited talks — see below for a selection, including keynotes, grand rounds, seminars, and conference presentations.
If you're looking for a speaker or are just curious about how I cultivate a research question, I'd love to hear from you.
Upcoming
The Last Mile of GLP-1s (Panel) — HLTH USA, Las Vegas, Nov 15–18, 2026 [Event details →]
Keynotes
Health Inequity by Design: The Interplay of Public Policy, Public Image, and Profit — Keynote, 14th Annual James Clyburn Health Equity Lecture, University of South Carolina, 2023
The Eras Tour: Designing a Cross-Disciplinary Research Study to Improve Adolescent Health — University of Rhode Island, 2023
Connections: The Joy of Finding Unexpected Common Threads — Harvard Alumni Association Leadership Conference, 2023
Media & Podcasts
Quoted in "Our Expensive Obesity Drugs Are Worth It, Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly Argue in Raft of Studies" — STAT News, 2023 [Read →]
Counseling Teens on Contraception; Shifts in Obesity Treatment — Pediatrics on Call, AAP, 2025 [Listen →]
Grand Rounds
Bribes and Prejudice: Using Health Economics to Improve Pediatric Chronic Disease Care — Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, 2018
Zig-A-Zig-Ah: Finding Out What People Really, Really Want — University of Wisconsin, 2021
Teens Just Wanna Have Funds: Developing a Financial Incentives Intervention for Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes — University of Michigan, 2022
Getting Off to a Running Start: Engaging Families in Early Childhood Obesity Treatment and Prevention — Cincinnati Children's Hospital, 2023
Research Seminars
A Run for Your Money: Designing Financial Incentives to Promote Treatment Adherence for Childhood Obesity — University of Pennsylvania, 2018
Parent-Perceived Important Topics for Childhood Obesity (PPITCH): Hitting the Right Note for Effective Health Risk Communication — Massachusetts General Hospital, 2023
Different Sides of the Same Coin: Measuring Trade-offs Between Clustered and Monthly Health Insurance Payments — University of Aberdeen, 2022
InvesT1D: Improving Adolescent Diabetes Health at What Cost? — Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, 2022
I Want It That Way: Using Stated Preferences to Design Health Care Interventions — University of Utah, 2020
Model Behavior: Best Practices for Integrating Economic Evaluation and Simulation Modeling Into Your Research Portfolio — Cincinnati Children's Hospital, 2023
Agents of Change: Engagement in Chronic Disease Management From Individual to Society — NYU Langone, 2023
From DCE to RCT and Nags to Riches: Decision Sciences Contributions to the Development and Evaluation of a Financial Incentives Intervention — Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2025
The Hunger Games: Fighting for Coverage and Access to Anti-Obesity Medications — University of Colorado Anschutz, 2025
OrCHID: Cultivating Informed Health Insurance Choice for Patients With Diabetes — Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 2025
Conference Presentations
Not My Child: Does Optimism Bias Influence Parent Predictions of Childhood-Obesity Related Disease Risks — International Health Economics Association, Milan, 2015
Hardwired for hope: How parents estimate their child’s risk for future obesity and chronic disease—Alaska INBRE Translational Research Symposium, 2016
Cents or Sensibility? A Discrete Choice Experiment to Elicit Stated Preferences for Health Insurance Plan Attributes — SMDM Annual Meeting, 2024
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise? Exploring Optimism Bias in Parent Predictions About a Child's Future Health — SMDM, 2016
Real-World Evidence for Public and Private Payer Coverage Decisions (Panel) — NIDDK Workshop, 2025 [Watch →] [Read the paper→]