Neeraj Sood

Expert in health policy and economics, including the impact of pharmaceutical spending on the economy
  • Vice Dean for Research, Sol Price School of Public Policy
  • Professor, Sol Price School of Public Policy
  • Researcher, Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics
Office: (213) 821-7940

Expertise

  • Health care costs
  • High-deductible insurance plans
  • Consumer-directed health plans
  • Global health
  • Health insurance markets and benefits design
  • Medical innovation and regulatory policy
  • Medicare and aging
  • Health economics
  • Health policy
  • Life insurance
  • Pharmaceutical spending and prices
  • Cost of HIV drugs
  • Insurance effects on HIV mortality
  • Accidents due to daylight saving time

Languages

  • Hindi

Additional Information

  • Research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
  • Standing member of the Health Services Organization and Delivery study section at NIH.
  • 2009 recipient of the Eugene Garfield Economic Impact Prize
  • Member of the Board of Directors for the American Society of Health Economists
  • On the editorial boards of Health Services Research and Forum for Health Economics and Policy
  • Finalist for the 16th and 21st Annual NIHCM Health Care Research Award, which recognizes outstanding research in health policy
  • Sood’s recent work spans several areas, including the impact of rising health care costs on the United States economy and the role of public policy in encouraging innovation.
  • Sood holds an M.A. in Economics from Indiana University, an M.A. in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics and a Ph.D. in Policy Analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School.