Jacob Jameson

PhD candidate at Harvard studying health policy, causal inference, and decision sciences.

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Jacob Jameson

PhD candidate at Harvard University

I am on the academic job market for 2026–2027. Please feel free to get in touch or view my CV.

I am a PhD candidate in Health Policy and Decision Sciences at Harvard University. My research studies consequential, high-volume health care decisions involving substantial clinician discretion. I use methods from decision science, operations management, econometrics, and machine learning to learn from experimental and observational data and translate that evidence into better decisions.

I am interested in decisions that affect both individual patients and the organizations that treat them. I study these decisions where they are made, working closely with clinicians and other stakeholders to understand institutional context, inform analytic assumptions, and identify practical next steps.

I am an NIMH T32 Predoctoral Research Fellow in Comparative Effectiveness Research for Suicide Prevention at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a Research Statistician with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Teaching is very important to me. I began my career teaching seventh and eighth grade mathematics in New Haven through Teach For America. I care deeply about helping students see themselves as capable of quantitative work.