In The Lab

BS Candidate in Business Administration, 2025, Northeastern University

Lauren's degree is complemented by concentrations in Healthcare Management and Consulting and Finance. Her professional interests include emerging healthcare technologies and operational improvements in delivery systems. She will join Guidepoint in August as a Healthcare Client Service Associate where she will identify and coordinate the subject matter expertise needs of institutional healthcare investors. She has worked with Dr. Post both as a Teaching Assistant for the Healthcare Policy and Administration course, and now as a Research Assistant.

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BS Candidate in Political Science and Economics, 2025, Northeastern University

Isabella Ratto is a 4th year undergraduate at Northeastern University pursuing a Bachelor’s of Science in Economics and Political Science with a minor in Spanish. She began working with Dr. Post in May 2023 and has since supported his work as a research assistant in various capacities including She works with Brady on topics of hospital-physician integration, care fragmentation, and patient satisfaction. Next year, Isabella will pursue a master's degree in health economics from the London School of Economics.

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PhD Candidate in Population Health, Northeastern University

Farbod works under the direction of Brady (chair) and Professor Gary Young (committee member). As a trained physician, Farbod combines a clinical perspective with advanced data analytics. He has led the statistical analysis of several papers while at Northeastern. For his dissertation, he is using machine learning techniques to better identify causal treatment effects. After graduation, he will join Analysis Group as an Associate in their health care practice.

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PhD Student in Sociology, Northeastern University

Danielle's research interests lie at the intersection of food policy and health policy. She works with Brady and Gary on several projects related to hospital-physician integration. She brings expertise in both qualitative research and flamenco dancing.

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Mengyuan is a Population Health PhD student at Northeastern University, and her research interests focus on healthcare policy—particularly Medicare—and its impact on cardiovascular care, comparative and cost-effectiveness analysis, and methods for using administrative data in health services research. She works with Brady and with Professor Nasim Ferdows on projects related to health care delivery for rural patients and provider integration.

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Neelam is a Population Health PhD student, focusing on health services & policy. Her research interests lie in understanding how facility ownership influences health outcomes and care quality, particularly in private practices and skilled nursing facilities. She works with Brady on projects related to SNFs, integration, and health policy.

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Alexandra Harris, MS

PhD Student Research Assistant

Current Position: Director of Epidemiology Analytics, Daiichi Sankyo, Inc.

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Lab Experience: Ngoc worked under the direction of Professors Gary Young (chair) and Brady Post (committee member). Her dissertation centered on hospital-physician vertical integration, examining quality performance under alternative payment models (published in Medical Care), site-neutral payment policy (forthcoming at Health Affairs), and care for cardiovascular patients (forthcoming at JAMA Network Open). She graduated from Northeastern with her PhD in 2024.

Current Position: Research Assistant, Harvard Department of Health Care Policy 

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Lab Experience: Asa worked under Brady's direction on projects related to patient satisfaction and hospital-physician vertical integration, leading to special expertise in Medicare survey data and a first-author manuscript submitted for peer review. Asa graduated with his BS in Economics from Northeastern in 2024.