Lauren Cipriano

Lauren Cipriano, PhD is a Canadian health economist based in London, Ontario.

Cipriano received a Bachelor of Sciences from the University of Western Ontario in 2003.¹⁾

She holds a Masters degree in Statistics and a PhD in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

Cipriano worked as a project manager at London Health Sciences Centre from 2004-2006.²⁾

Cipriano worked as a research assistant at Massachusetts General Hospital from 2006-2008.³⁾

Cipriano is an Associate Professor in Management Science at the Ivey Business School and in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Healthcare Analytics, Management, and Policy.

Cipriano has provided consulting services for the World Health Organization. In one example, a WHO advisory paper was also funded by UNITAID.⁴⁾

Cipriano has also provided guidance to the Government of the United States of America through the US Veterans Health Administration, US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the US Institute for Clinical and Economic Review.

Cipriano sits on the Health Economics Methods Advisory Committee for the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Heath (CADTH).

Cipriano is associated with the THETA Collaborative, a health economics research group funded by Toronto General Hospital at University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital, and partnered with the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.⁵⁾

Cipriano is a member of the Modelling Consensus Table of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table.⁶⁾

Cipriano is a co-investigator on a study titled “Modelling to inform COVID-19 vaccination rollouts based on vaccine characteristics” led by Seyed Moghadas (PI) at York University. The study is funded by the Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN).⁷⁾

Cipriano is the Deputy Editor of the journals Medical Decision Making and Medical Decision Making Policy & Practice.