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Yanfang Su is a health economist with over ten years of work experience in health systems policy. She holds a ScD in Global Health with a Population Health Systems track from Harvard University. During her postdoctoral training at the University of Washington, Su applied econometric methods to health financing and has published papers in The Lancet, including co-first author contributions in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Her publications focus on three main areas: economic evaluation of healthcare systems, including analyses of equity, supply, demand, costs, and quality; evaluation of public policy; and global health population measures. Su is also designing a new course on Comparative Health Systems while mentoring 20 trainees, 18 of whom come from underrepresented groups. She is the founder and Board Chair of the non-profit organization East West Alliance Education Health, which delivers equitable community services and has conducted digital health randomized controlled trials in low-resource settings. Su has previously worked at Tsinghua University and the Hong Kong Policy Research Institute in China and consulted for the World Bank, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Results for Development in primary health care systems strengthening. Additionally, she has served as a guest editor for a special issue on policy implementation science in Frontiers in Health Services. Su's career goal is to become a leading scientist in policy implementation, with a focus on cardiovascular disease prevention.
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