Jakub Hlavka, PhD
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Affiliation(s):
University of Southern California
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Areas of Interest:
health economics & health outcomes measurement
Biography & Research:
Jakub Hlávka, Ph.D. is a Research Assistant Professor in the Health Policy and Management Department of the Price School of Public Policy and the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, University of Southern California.
Dr. Hlávka currently manages an NIH grant addressing innovation in access to Alzheimer's therapies, led by Profs. Goldman and Lakdawalla. His expertise is in multiple health policy and economics areas, including the study of dementia, artificial intelligence and privacy, design of alternative payment models, and access to high-cost therapies.
He has held research and fellowship positions at Genentech, where he assisted in R&D portfolio planning, and the Tufts Medical Center’s Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health, and is currently a member of the International Pharmaco-Economic Collaboration on Alzheimer’s Disease (IPECAD). In volunteer capacity, he works with a non-profit medical center in a low-income neighborhood of Dandora in Nairobi, Kenya.
Dr. Hlávka holds a PhD from the Pardee RAND Graduate School, a master’s degree from Georgetown University, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, and an undergraduate degree from the University of Economics in Prague.
