CAsToR 2021: “Generating Model Parameters Analyzing Real-World Data...” Jody Sindelar, PhD

“Generating Model Parameters Analyzing Real-World Data Versus Conducting Discrete Choice Experiments: Impact of Vaping and Smoking Policies” with Jody Sindelar, PhD

From the CAsToR Symposium 2021: “Simulation Modeling in Tobacco Regulatory Science: Where are we and where should we go next?” (June 7 - 9, 2021)

Day Two, Session Three: “Innovative Approaches to Generate Model Parameters”

ABOUT THIS PRESENTATION

This presentation will compare two methods of generating tobacco model parameters: 1) using quasi experimental methods with real world data versus 2) conducting discrete choice experiments (DCEs). Examples will be taken from a series of my coauthored studies estimating policy impacts using DCEs alongside a survey using a national sample online. Examples of quasi experimental studies will be drawn from a coauthored study and from a large, ongoing UMich/Yale data collection effort and analyses. The latter examines the impact of state policies. These studies all aim to estimate the impacts of tobacco policies on vaping and smoking. Bans on flavors in cigarettes and e-cigarettes as well as other policies are examined.

ABOUT THIS PRESENTER

Jody Sindelar, PhD: Professor of Public Health (Health Policy), Professor of Economics, and Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies; Research Associate, NBER (Yale University)

Professor Jody Sindelar is a professor of public health, health economist, and public policy expert in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Yale School of Public Health (YSPH), as well as with Yale’s Department of Economics. In addition, she is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), research fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, and faculty fellow at Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS). She is also a founding member and past president of the American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon).

Professor Sindelar’s expertise is on the economics of substance abuse, including addictive substances of tobacco/vaping, alcohol, and illicit drugs. She has published on the impacts of substance abuse on productivity, educational attainment, gender differences, and other policy issues; and in various journals of economics, policy, addiction, health and medicine. Also, she has served on numerous editorial, review, and advisory boards and committees, and has presented her research at seminars and conferences both nationally and abroad. Professor Sindelar has given keynote addressesto conferences in the United States, Australia, Germany, Italy, and Sweden. She has also been a visiting professor at several universities and institutes, including Boston University in Boston, MA; the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, CA and Washington, DC; Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City, Mexico; and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Medical School in Shanghai, China. In addition, she has had sabbaticals at the Institut d'études Politiques de Paris (Paris Institute of Political Studies) in Paris, France; Stanford University in Stanford, CA; and the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Sindelar has been a principal investigator or collaborator on numerous research projects funded by various organizations, including the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ); Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Connecticut Department of Social Services (DSS); Food and Drug Administration (FDA); National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA); National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH); National Institute on Aging (NIA); National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA); Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF); Department of Veterans Affairs (VA); Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (YCCI); and the Federal Drug Administration.