Darius Lakdawalla PhD

Darius Lakdawalla is a Professor at the University of Southern California (USC) School of Pharmacy and at the Sol Price School of Public Policy and holds the Quintiles Chair in Pharmaceutical Development and Regulatory Innovation. Dr. Lakdawalla is also the Director of Research at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at USC.

He has been the recipient of the Milken Institute’s Distinguished Economic Research Award for best research in the field of economics, and the recipient of the Garfield Prize for research on the economics of medical innovation. His work has been published in leading journals of economics, medicine, and health policy, and funded by the National Institute of Aging, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Dr. Lakdawalla is currently a Research Associate in the Health Care and Health Economics programs at the National Bureau of Economic Research, in Cambridge, Mass., and a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He serves as an Associate Editor at the Review of Economics and Statistics. He is also the former Director of Research at the Bing Center for Health Economics at the RAND Corporation.

Dr. Lakdawalla received his BS in mathematics and philosophy from Amherst College and his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.