Bio
Ali Jalali is an assistant professor of population health sciences at the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Prior to joining Weill Cornell Medicine, Jalali completed a doctoral degree in economics from the University of Utah, and received training as a health economist in the Health Economics Core of the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences, University of Utah School of Medicine. Jalali’s research interests include the social determinants of health, economic dimensions of substance use disorders, impact of labor market policies on population health, and the societal burden of preterm births and rare genetic disorders. Jalali has also researched the impact of bundled payment reforms on physician consolidation, the provision of adequate surgical care in lower and middle-income countries (particularly Ghana), and cost-effectiveness analysis of universal newborn screening for genetic disorders.