In this ‘Patti’s People’ episode, Patti Peeples of the The Peeples Collaborative speaks with Melanie Whittington, Managing Director and Head of the Leerink Center for Pharmacoeconomics, MEDACorp.
Questions:
00:00: Introduction
01:03: You work at the intersection of health economics, policy, and investment. How do these domains influence one another in your work, and what gaps are you aiming to bridge?
04:34: Who are you informing differently than has been typical?
07:21: You’ve worked across leading institutions in healthcare. What connects these roles, and what core question or challenge has guided your career??
09:36: How does traditional cost-effectiveness modeling differ from risk-adjusted NPV models, and do you see a hybrid approach emerging? Who might lead that shift?
16:11: If you could redesign the value framework, what elements do you think are missing – and why?
19:27: As a CBO health adviser, what perspective do you bring, and what impact do you hope to make?
22:12: With policies like the IRA taking shape, are we striking the right balance between cost control and long-term innovation, or are new incentives needed?
24:55: In your view, what makes healthcare evidence resonate, and why is some data overlooked?
27:35: As health equity gains attention in economic evaluation, how is HEOR adapting – and where is it still falling short?
31:02: What advice would you offer to women starting out in health economics today?
33:45: Rapid fire questions
Melanie Whittington
Managing Director and Head of the Leerink Center for Pharmacoeconomics, MEDACorp
Melanie (Mel) Whittington is a Managing Director and Head of the Leerink Center for Pharmacoeconomics, which is a division of MEDACorp and an affiliate of Leerink Partners. In this role, she leads pharmacoeconomic evaluations of the societal impact of biopharmaceutical innovations. She is also a Senior Fellow within the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health at Tufts Medical Center where she is interested in testing novel health economic methods.
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