Scott Grosse, PHD, is the Associate Director for Health Services Research and Evaluation in the Division of Blood Disorders of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD). Dr. Grosse studied economics and public health at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and worked at the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health between 1996 and 2001 on conditions such as asthma and childhood lead exposure. He joined the newly created NCBDD in 2001. Dr. Grosse has published more than 150 articles, chapters, and reports. These include several papers that address economic evaluation methods, including a critical review published in 2008 on the history of the $50,000 threshold in cost-effectiveness analysis, a 2009 publication on estimates of average individual productivity by age and sex for the calculation of indirect costs, and a 2010 critique of the use of quality-adjusted life-years in pediatric cost-effectiveness analyses. He has published on health care use, economic costs, and health outcomes associated with pediatric-onset conditions such as autism, cerebral palsy, and cystic fibrosis. He has conducted cost-effectiveness and policy analyses on folic acid fortification and supplementation for the prevention of neural tube defects, and various types of newborn screening, including most recently screening for critical congenital heart disease (CCHD). Dr. Grosse does research on the health and economic impacts of blood disorders, with a particular focus on deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, hemophilia, and sickle cell disease.

Stephanie Lee is a Senior Research Associate at the Washington State Institute for Public Policy (WSIPP), a non-partisan organization created by the legislature to carry out practical research on issues of importance to Washington. Since 2007, Stephanie has been focused on identifying and evaluating the research evidence for programs and policies that affect children, particularly in the areas of child welfare and mental health.  Her current work is centered on estimating the long-term economic impacts of strategies to improve outcomes for people in the state of Washington. Stephanie also leads WSIPP’s work with the Results First initiative, a collaboration between the MacArthur Foundation and the Pew Center on the States. This project aims to develop and extend the capability of WSIPP’s benefit-cost software, and to support other states in using the WSIPP benefit-cost approach in their own specific contexts. Prior to her work at WSIPP, she spent five years in the United Kingdom, heading research for the charity Communities that Care (UK). Stephanie holds a BA in Psychology from Trinity University and an MA in Experimental Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis.

Ricardo Basurto-Dávila, Ph.D., is a health economist at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, where he leads economic and other public health policy studies. He was previously a Prevention Effectiveness Fellow at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where he conducted economic evaluations of the efforts to respond to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic by the United States and other countries. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Policy Analyst at the RAND Corporation, where his work focused on migration, social and environmental determinants of health, and inequalities in health and health care. He has published in social science, public health, and medical journals. Dr. Basurto-Dávila earned a B.A. in Economics from Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico, a M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in Policy Analysis from the F. S. Pardee RAND Graduate School in Santa Monica, CA.