Webinar
IPVS ECR Workshop
Mentorship for Early Career Researchers:
What It Really Is -- and How to Thrive in it
LINK to SLIDES
International Papillomavirus Society (IPVS)
February 4, 2026
DR. RYAN SUK (석리언)
She/They
"My research mission is OPTIMIZE"
O – Optimize resource allocation
P – Prevent HPV-associated cancers
T – (understand) Trade-offs in health decisions
I – Improve supportive oncology care
M – Model health outcomes using decision analytics and economic evaluation
I – Inform individuals through navigation/information tools
Z – Zero in on barriers to care
E – Evaluate equity and decision-making in healthcare access
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 supportive oncology, 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
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Clinical topic: HPV-associated cancer prevention and control; patient-centered cancer survivorship care
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Core problem: trade-offs, opportunity costs, constrained decisions, inequity
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Method expertise: Economic evaluation & decision modeling; quantitative data analysis; mixed-methods
