Dr. Reed Johnson

Biography

Reed Johnson has over 40 years of academic research experience in health and environmental economics. He has served on faculties at universities in the United States, Canada, and Sweden, and is a Distinguished Fellow at the Research Triangle Institute. Currently, he is a Senior Research Scholar at the Duke Clinical Research Institute. Johnson was a staff member in the Environmental Protection Agency’s environmental economics research program during the 1980s, where he played a crucial role in developing foundational non-market valuation techniques that are widely employed in benefit-cost analysis in health and environmental economics. He has designed and analyzed numerous surveys to measure preferences regarding the value of health outcomes, health risk reductions, and improvements in environmental quality. Johnson has published 140 works in books and peer-reviewed journals, with research appearing in leading medical journals and economic publications. His current research focuses on quantifying patients’ willingness to accept side-effect risks in exchange for therapeutic benefits, as well as estimating general time equivalences for health states. He has led FDA-sponsored studies on patient benefit-risk tradeoffs for new health technologies, contributing significantly to FDA guidance on patient-preference data in medical device regulatory reviews.

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