Scholarship and Biography

Donald S. Shepard, Ph.D., is Professor at the Schneider Institutes for Health Policy at the Heller School, Brandeis University. Director of the Institutes' group on cost and value, he is a health economist concerned with maintaining and improving health the United States and globally. His major concentrations are cost and cost-effectiveness analysis in health, health financing, and performance incentives. He co-authored the paper that created the term QALY (for quality-adjusted life year), a central concept in cost-effectiveness analysis in health Substantive areas concern malaria, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, HIV/AIDS, dengue, lymphatic filariasis, vaccines, measurement of the quality of life, and control of mosquitoes, oral health, and technology assessment. He is Fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, a peer reviewer of grant applications for the National Institutes of Health, and former Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Applied Public Policy.

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Honors

Biographee in Who's Who in the East, 26th Edition (1996) and 27th Edition (1998)
Marquis Who’s Who, 1996, 1998
Distinguished Service Award from Mental Health and Substance Abuse Corporations of Massachusetts, Inc
Association for Behavioral Healthcare, 2006
Study Section regular & ad hoc member, Behavioral and Social Sciences in HIV/AIDS, National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health (United States, Bethesda) - NIH, 2008-2010
Member of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group, Neglected Tropical Disease Control Program
World Health Organization (Switzerland, Geneva) - WHO, 2008-2011
Co-author of “Paper of the Year”
American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, 2009
Biographee in Who's Who in America, 57th edition (2003) through 73rd edition (2018)
Marquis Who’s Who, 2013-2018
Biographee in Who's Who in the World, 21st edition (2004) through 36th edition (2018)
Marquis Who’s Who, 2013-2018
First author of lead paper of the month in Journal of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene for research on dengue
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (United States, Oakbrook Terrace) - ASTMH, 2014
Plant-Insect Ecosystem Section Integrated Pest Management Team Award to “Area-wide Asian Tiger Mosquito (AW-ATM) Team”
Entomological Society of America (United States, Annapolis) - ESA, 2014
Expert adviser to Evidence Review Group on economics of PBO bed nets, Global Malaria Program
World Health Organization (Switzerland, Geneva) - WHO, 2015
Fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (awarded in recognition of sustained professional excellence in any phase of tropical medicine, hygiene, global health and related disciplines)
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (United States, Oakbrook Terrace) - ASTMH, 2016
Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Awar
Marquis Who’s Who, 2017-2018
Distinguished Chair in Applied Public Policy (Adelaide, Australia)
Fulbright Association (United States, Washington D.C.), 2019
Listing in Who's Who in America
Marquis Who’s Who, 2021
Listing in Who's Who in the World
Marquis Who’s Who, 2021

Organizational Affiliations

Professor, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University

Past Affiliations

Expert adviser to Evidence Review Group on economics of PBO bed nets, Global Malaria Program, World Health Organization (Switzerland, Geneva) - WHO

Education

Harvard University
Ph.D.
Harvard University
M.P.P.
Harvard University
B.A.