Health Policy
Faculty and Staff
April D. Kimmel, PhD, MSc, is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Division of Health Policy. Her current research interests include priority setting for HIV/AIDS treatment scale-up in resource-limited settings and drawing upon decision analytic methods to illustrate efficiency/equity trade-offs in policymaking. She has used mathematical models to assess the value of routine laboratory monitoring for treatment management of HIV-infected individuals in both developed and developing countries. She has examined qualitatively HIV/AIDS treatment priorities of South African policymakers and has developed quantitative frameworks for assessing ethical preferences for providing HIV treatment in this setting. She also has used mathematical models to allocate limited HIV treatment resources between patients on failed treatment regimens and those who are newly eligible for treatment in sub-Saharan Africa. During her postdoctoral period under the direction of Dr. Bruce Schackman (Public Health) and Drs. Daniel Fitzgerald, Warren Johnson, and Jean W. Pape (Infectious Diseases), she will develop a Haiti-specific computer simulation model of HIV disease and use it to inform HIV treatment scale-up and implementation in Haiti. Dr. Kimmel holds a baccalaureate degree from Dartmouth College (1996), a Master’s degree in Population and International Health from Harvard School of Public Health (2004), and a PhD in Health Policy, concentrating in decision sciences, from Harvard University (2010). She is a former recipient of an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality traineeship, a predoctoral HIV clinical research fellowship from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and a dissertation fellowship through the Project on Justice, Welfare, and Economics at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. She currently receives support from the Fogarty International Center as a U.S. Global Health Postdoctoral Scientist through the Haiti AIDS International Training and Research Program.
