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 and advised by Professor Soroush Saghafian. 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 study the impacts of physician behavior, health policies, and personalized medicine. 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.

I also care deeply about teaching. I have been fortunate to work with students at Harvard, the University of Chicago, and New Haven Public Schools during my time as a Teach For America corps member.