Zachary Wagner
Associate Professor (Research) of Economics
Center for Economic and Social Research
Department of Economics
University of Southern California

Email: wagnerru@usc.edu 

I am a health economist at the Center for Economic and Social Policy at USC. My research uses economic theory and econometrics to study how people make decisions about health and health care around the globe. My expertise includes take-up of health technology, quality of care in low-income countries, disasters and health, health insurance for the poor, community health workers, HIV/AIDS, child diarrhea, private sector health care, the opioid crisis, and family planning. My research uses a variety of methodologies including randomized controlled trials, quasi-experimental evaluations, analysis of large secondary data sets, cost-effectiveness analysis, and geospatial analysis. I have completed research in several countries in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia. I am currently leading two large NIH funded projects; one that studies how to improve treatment of child diarrhea in India and another that estimates the effect of natural disasters on child health in low- and middle-income countries. My research has been featured in leading journals including Science, Nature, The Lancet, BMJ, PLOS Medicine, Health Affairs, and AEJ: Economic Policy. Prior to joining USC, I was an Economist at RAND and postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University. My Ph.D. is in health policy (economics track) from UC Berkeley and I have a Master's degree in international development from UC San Diego. 

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