Ryan Suk, PhD, MS

​​I am an Assistant Professor in Health Economics who focuses on data-driven, community-engaged, and process-embedded research to advance health equity and improve healthcare efficiency. My research integrates health economics and decision science to understand and improve how individuals and health systems navigate trade-offs, with the goal of optimizing resource allocation, reducing opportunity costs, and improving decisions under constraints. I focus on improving prevention and care in HPV-associated cancers and other screening-detectable cancers, where individuals face informational and access barriers and health systems must allocate limited resources efficiently. For example, I develop microsimulation models for cost-effective palliative oncology, conduct qualitative interviews on healthcare navigation barriers, and design navigation tools that help low-income families access cancer prevention care.

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• Conceptual frame: Health Economics + Decision Science

• Clinical topic: HPV-associated cancer prevention and control; other screen-detectable cancers​

• Core problem:  trade-offs, opportunity costs, constrained decisions, workflow integration, inequity

• Method expertise: Economic evaluation & decision modeling; quantitative data analysis; mixed-methods