Sean Sylvia, PhD

Sean Sylvia, PhD

Principal Investigator, DHEPLab
Assistant Professor of Health Economics

Health Policy and Management, UNC Gillings

Sean Sylvia is an Assistant Professor of health economics at UNC. His primary research interest is in the delivery of healthcare in China and other middle-income countries. Working with multidisciplinary teams of collaborators, he conducts large-scale population-based surveys and randomized trials to develop and test new approaches to provide healthcare to the poor and marginalized. His recent work focuses on the use of information technology to expand access to quality healthcare.

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Interests
  • Health system transformation middle-income countries
  • Mechanism design applications to healthcare delivery
  • Behavioral Economics
  • Economics of digital health
Education
  • PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics (Development Economics), 2014

    University of Maryland, College Park

  • MS in Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2012

    University of Maryland, College Park

  • BS in Economics (Chinese minor), 2006

    University of Alabama

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