Poster Presentation
DR. RYAN SUK (석리언)
She/They
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
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Clinical topic: HPV-associated cancer prevention and control; other screen-detectable cancers
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Core problem: trade-offs, opportunity costs, constrained decisions, workflow integration, inequity
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Method expertise: Economic evaluation & decision modeling; quantitative data analysis; mixed-methods
Suk's Decision Science Lab at Emory University
From evidence to decisions that can be implemented, evaluated, and improved by identifying strategies that are effective, equitable, feasible, and sustainable in real-world health systems.
- Decision modeling - Economic evaluation - Operations research - Policy simulation
