Henu Zhao, PhD

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Henu Zhao was a senior quantitative analyst at the USC Schaeffer Center. Her specialties include advanced statistics and microeconometric theories and modeling.

She joined the Schaeffer Center in 2015 after finishing her PhD in policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. While pursuing her doctorate, she worked as an assistant policy analyst at the RAND Corporation. She also holds an MA in public management from Tsinghua University and a BA in information resources management from Renmin University of China.

Recent Work

Lifetime Burden of Adult Congenital Heart Disease in the USA Using a Microsimulation Model

There is a significant burden of disease among individuals with CHD; the disease affects quality of life, disability, life expectancy, medical spending, chronic disease, as well as employment and education outcomes.
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Future Health Dividends for California: Valuing Medical Innovations

Reducing the incidence of four common cancers (breast, colon, lung, and prostate cancer), diabetes and stroke by 50 percent would generate nearly $900 billion in social value for California between 2018 and 2040. Just a 10 percent decline generates $175 billion over the same period.
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Measuring The Lifetime Costs Of Serious Mental Illness And The Mitigating Effects Of Educational Attainment

Using a dynamic microsimulation model to estimate the lifetime burden of serious mental illness for those diagnosed by age twenty-five, the researchers estimated that the per-patient lifetime burden of SMI is $1.85 million.
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Opioid Prescribing Decreases After Learning of a Patient’s Fatal Overdose

Results of the randomized trial show opioid prescribing decreases after a clinician learns of a patient’s fatal overdose.
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Using Self Reports or Claims to Assess Disease Prevalence

Patricia St. Clair and her colleagues assess prevalence of diabetes and heart attack in the US elderly population across the most well used data sources for estimation.
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Recent Work

Lifetime Burden of Adult Congenital Heart Disease in the USA Using a Microsimulation Model

Future Health Dividends for California: Valuing Medical Innovations

Measuring The Lifetime Costs Of Serious Mental Illness And The Mitigating Effects Of Educational Attainment

Opioid Prescribing Decreases After Learning of a Patient’s Fatal Overdose

Using Self Reports or Claims to Assess Disease Prevalence