ISPOR Award for Excellence in Methodology in Pharmacoeconomics and Health Outcomes Research Recipient

Anirban Basu MS, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Chicago

Basu A, Arondekarc BV, Rathouz PJ. Scale of interest versus scale of estimation: comparing alternative estimators for the incremental costs of a comorbidity. Health Econ 2006;15:1091–107.

Anirban Basu (MS, Biostatistics UNC- Chapel Hill, and PhD Public Policy University of Chicago) is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago. Anirban’s research interests are in cost-effectiveness analyses (CEA) of medical interventions, decision analysis methodology, health econometrics and applied health services research.

He has extensive experience in modeling health expenditure data. He has also worked on the theoretical and empirical foundations in cost-effectiveness analyses and value of information analyses in the context of prostate cancer and schizophrenia. He has authored or co-authored several journal articles and book chapters on these and other topics. Some of his publications have appeared in the Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics, Biostatistics, Statistics in Medicine, Medical Decision Making and Schizophrenia Research.

Anirban is also working on identifying and measuring spillover effects of patient’s health to their family members and incorporating these effects in CEA. His other work include exploring the use of instrumental variables in the presence if heterogeneity and self-selection behavior, estimating future value of research in diagnosing and finding a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and developing comprehensive simulation models for evaluating cost-effectiveness of pharmacological treatment algorithms in schizophrenia.