About this Event
The Decision Sciences for Child Health Collaborative (DSCCo) SIG is pleased to host a virtual Discovery Dialogues featuring Roopa Darwar, a PhD Candidate of Health Services Organization and Policy at the University of Michigan.
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Talk Description: Absence from school due to illness can adversely affect academic performance, cognitive development, and future economic opportunities. Despite these consequences, the value of a lost day of schooling has not been comprehensively measured in the context of economic evaluation in the United States (U.S.). This analysis considers three streams of evidence to provide candidate recommendations and models for quantifying the economic consequences of school absenteeism in the U.S. About the Speaker: Roopa Darwar is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan. Her research interests include economic evaluations of immunization interventions. |