A. David Paltiel

A. David Paltiel is a professor of health policy and management at the Yale School of Public Health. He holds a secondary appointment as a professor at the School of Management. After completing his PhD in operations research at Yale in 1992, he taught at Harvard’s School of Public Health and Kennedy School of Government before joining the Yale faculty in 1996. He is a founding member and former director of the Public Health Modeling Unit, an interdisciplinary center based at the School of Public Health that convenes faculty and trainees from around the university to develop and implement systems-based solutions for clinical decision making and health policy.

Professor Paltiel designs mathematical simulation and resource allocation models to inform prevention, screening, and treatment decisions in health and medicine. Among his more consequential contributions in HIV are establishing the cost-effectiveness of population-wide screening and setting performance benchmarks for the approval and implementation of pre-exposure prophylaxis strategies. During the COVID-19 pandemic, his research and recommendations served as the blueprint for the safe reopening of universities and residential colleges across the country. Most recently, he has gained international attention for his forecasts of the clinical and economic impact of scaling back US global health assistance. He was elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering in 2014 and has served on clinical guideline review panels and scientific advisory committees for the US National Institutes of Health, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US National Academies, the French public health authority (Santé Publique France), and the French National Agency for AIDS Research (ANRS-MIE).