Program Affiliations
Dr. Basu is an associate professor in the Departments of Health Services and Pharmacy at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Dr. Basu's research interests lie in revealing heterogeneity in clinical and economic outcomes in order to establish the value of individualized care. His work has focused on translating such information for public policy using innovative methods in comparative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness research. Dr. Basu has developed methods dealing with issues related to modeling health expenditure data, which is renowned for its idiosyncrasies and the difficulties it poses for applied health services researchers. He has also worked on methods used for making causal inferences using observational data. His applied work spans many dimensions that include analyzing the cost-effectiveness of prostate cancer treatments, establishing the value of individualized care based on patient preferences, developing models to predict quality of life of patients with multiple comorbidities, measuring the effect of patients' health on the quality of life of their partners, developing novel methods to estimate long-term costs of prostate cancer therapies, estimating the future value of research in diagnosing and finding a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, developing simulation models for evaluating the cost-effectiveness of pharmacological treatment algorithms in schizophrenia, and comparative effectiveness research on the dynamic intensification of glucose lowering therapies in diabetes.
Dr. Basu is an Associate Editor for both Health Economics and the Journal of Health Economics and has taught courses on decision analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis and health services research methods. He has received numerous recognitions for his work throughout his career and for which he remains grateful to his mentors and peers: the NARSAD Wodecroft Young Investigator Award (2005), the Research Excellence Award for Methodological Excellence (2007) and the Bernie O'Brien New Investigator Award (2009) from the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, the Alan Williams Health Economics Fellowship (2008) from the University of York, UK and the Labelle Lectureship in Health Economics (2009) from McMaster University, Canada.
Research Interests:
Health econometrics; cost-effectiveness; comparative effectiveness and value of information analyses; quality of life; spill-over effects; substantive focus on cancer, mental health and diabetes
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Contact Information
web site: http://faculty.washington.edu/basua/
office: H-694, Health Sciences Building
address:
Magnuson Health Sciences Center
1959 NE Pacific St.
Seattle, WA 98195-7660
campus box: 357660
voice: 206-616-2986
fax: 206-543-3964
Education
MS University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), 1999 (Biostatistics)
MS University of Toledo, 1997 (Pharmaceutical Sciences)
BS Jadavpur University, 1995 (Pharmaceutical Sciences)
Teaching (Department of Health Services Courses)
- HSERV 525
Advanced Health Services Research Methods III
Recent Publications
Basu A, Meltzer D. Private manufacturers' thresholds to invest in comparative effectiveness trials. Pharmacoeconomics. 2012 Oct 1;30(10):859-68. doi: 10.2165/11597730-000000000-00000. PMID: 22901018
Basu A, Kee R, Buchanan D, Sadowski LS. Comparative cost analysis of housing and case management program for chronically ill homeless adults compared to usual care. Health Serv Res. 2012 Feb;47(1 Pt 2):523-43. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2011.01350.x. Epub 2011 Nov 18. PMID: 22098257
Basu A, Manca A. Regression estimators for generic health-related quality of life and quality-adjusted life years. Med Decis Making. 2012 Jan-Feb;32(1):56-69. Epub 2011 Oct 18. PMID: 22009667
Meltzer DO, Hoomans T, Chung JW, Basu A. Minimal modeling approaches to value of information analysis for health research. Med Decis Making. 2011 Nov-Dec;31(6):E1-E22. Epub 2011 Jun 28. PMID: 21712493
External Funding (sampling of recent awards from UW SAGE data)
PI: Basu Dates: 4/1/2013 - 3/31/2014
PI: Basu Dates: 12/1/2012 - 11/30/2013
PI: Basu Dates: 4/1/2012 - 3/31/2013
PI: Vavilala Dates: 4/1/2012 - 3/31/2013
PI: Basu Dates: 12/28/2011 - 8/31/2016
PI: Garrison Dates: 12/1/2011 - 11/30/2014
PI: Basu Dates: 12/1/2011 - 11/30/2012
PI: Basu Dates: 9/1/2011 - 8/31/2014
PI: Martin Dates: 7/1/2011 - 6/30/2012
PI: Basu Dates: 6/1/2011 - 5/31/2014
PI: Basu Dates: 3/6/2011 - 7/31/2013
PI: Basu Dates: 1/1/2011 - 5/31/2013
PI: Basu Dates: 1/1/2011 - 8/31/2013
PI: Basu Dates: 1/1/2011 - 12/31/2011
