InCHIP Lecture: Evaluating Cost-Effectiveness of Healthcare Interventions

Shadi Izadidehkordi, PharmD, University of Connecticut
“Evaluating Cost-Effectiveness of Healthcare Interventions, a Dynamic Model to Capture Cost-Effectiveness of a Bio-behavioral PrEP focused HIV Preventive Intervention”

Shadi Izadidehkordi, PharmD is a licensed community pharmacist and postdoctoral research associate in the University of Connecticut’s Department of Allied Health Sciences. Her research expertise is in the areas of pharmaceutical outcomes research, including pharmacoeconomic, cost-effectiveness analysis, and economic evaluation of pharmaceutical products. Dr. Izadidehkordi’s research interests also include Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR), pharmaceutical/healthcare modeling research, applying real-world data to clinical trials for pharmacoeconomic/pharmacoepidemiology model development, and predictive modeling of healthcare interventions.

This lecture aims to introduce common methodologies for conducting cost-effectiveness analysis on healthcare interventions with a special focus on cost-effectiveness analysis of an Integrated Bio-Behavioral Primary HIV Prevention Intervention Among High-Risk People Who Use Drugs (CHRP-BB). This NIH-funded trial focuses on the population who are receiving medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) and introduces simultaneous harm reduction and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) adherence enhancement strategies to mitigate HIV transmission.

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