Professor
Brandeis University
Disclosure: Sanofi Pasteur (Grant/Research Support)
Donald S. Shepard, Ph.D., FASTMH, is Professor at the Schneider Institutes for Health Policy at the Heller School, Brandeis University. Director of the Institute's Cost-effectiveness Group, he is a health economist concerned with health problems of both the United States and developing countries. His major concentrations are cost and cost-effectiveness analysis in health, and health financing. He has served regularly on study sections that reviews grant applications for the National Institutes of Health and on the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group (STAG) for Neglected Tropical Diseases of the World Health Organization. In 2016 he was named a Fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (FASTMH). In 2019 he served as Distguished Chair of Applied Public Policy at Flinders and Carnegie Mellon Universities under the Australian-US Fulbright Program. After receiving his B. A. magna cum laude with highest honors at Harvard, Dr. Shepard earned a Master of Public Policy and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
