Bio
Rachel Epstein is an assistant professor of Medicine and Pediatrics in the sections of Infectious Diseases and Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center. She sees adult and pediatric patients living with or at risk for hepatitis C virus (HCV), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and other infectious diseases. Her research focuses on analyzing large data sets and utliitizing decision modelling to identify ways to improve care delivery along the HCV, HIV, and opioid use disorder care continuums, with particular expertise on pregnant and post-partum women with substance use, their exposed infants, and adolescents. Her current and recent work includes projects analyzing the effects of Medicaid HCV treatment restrictions on care cascade outcome achievement, HIV prevention and medication adherence, and comparing the cost-effectiveness of various HCV screening, evaluation, and treatment interventions.