Adopting electric school buses in the United States: Health and climate benefits.
Choma EF, Robinson LA, Nadeau KC.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 May 28. 121(22):e2320338121. PMID: 38768355
Deputy Director, Center for Health Decision Science
Center for Health Decision Science
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Lisa A. Robinson’s research and teaching focus on the conduct of benefit-cost analysis, particularly for policies with outcomes that cannot be fully valued using market measures. She has led numerous assessments of the costs, benefits, and other impacts of environmental, health, and safety policies and regulations, developed related methods, and drafted guidance documents. She co-edited the National Academies book, "Valuing Health for Regulatory Cost-Effectiveness Analysis," led the creation benefit-cost analysis guidelines for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services regulations and global public health interventions, and developed approaches for estimating the value of mortality risk reductions (the value per statistical life, VSL) for several government agencies and other organizations. She has explored numerous other methodological issues, including the implications of behavioral economics and happiness (subjective wellbeing) research for benefit-cost analysis, approaches for addressing the distribution of impacts across advantaged and disadvantaged groups, and ethical concerns. She applies these methods in high-, middle-, and low-income settings. Her work addresses a variety of policy issues, including responses to vaccine mandates and to hazard warnings as well as the health impacts of climate change. She has served as a member of several expert advisory groups, including those convened by U.S. Federal government agencies, OECD, the World Health Organization, and other organizations.
Ms. Robinson serves as Deputy Director of the Center for Health Decision Science is affiliated with the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis as well as the Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She was previously a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government as well as an Affiliate Fellow of its Regulatory Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is a past President of the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis and served as a Councilor of the Society for Risk Analysis as well as Chair of its Economics and Benefits Analysis Specialty Group. She is on the Editorial Boards of Risk Analysis and the Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis.
For related publications, see: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/lisa-robinson/publications/
BA, 1979, Political Science/International Relations
Carleton College, Northfield MN
MPP, 1982, Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge MA
Best Paper Award, Risk Analysis
Risk Analysis, An International Journal
Fellow, Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis
Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis
Outstanding Practitioner Award, Society for Risk Analysis
Society for Risk Analysis
Best Symposium Award, Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis
Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis
Fellow, Society for Risk Analysis
Society for Risk Analysis
Richard O. Zerbe Distinguished Service Award, Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis
Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis
Richard J. Burk Outstanding Service Award, Society for Risk Analysis
Society for Risk Analysis
Choma EF, Robinson LA, Nadeau KC.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 May 28. 121(22):e2320338121. PMID: 38768355
Glied S, Robinson LA.
JAMA Health Forum. 2023 Dec 01. 4(12):e235055. PMID: 38060236
Ferranna M, Robinson LA, Cadarette D, Eber MR, Bloom DE.
Risk Anal. 2023 10. 43(10):2053-2068. PMID: 36649917
Robinson LA, Eber MR, Hammitt JK.
J Benefit Cost Anal. 2022. 13(2):247-268. PMID: 36090595
Hammitt JK, Robinson LA.
Risk Anal. 2021 04. 41(4):559-564. PMID: 33843076
Buonocore JJ, Robinson LA, Hammitt JK, O'Keeffe L.
Risk Anal. 2021 04. 41(4):645-660. PMID: 33249613
Robinson LA, Sullivan R, Shogren JF.
Risk Anal. 2021 05. 41(5):761-770. PMID: 32677076
Robinson LA, Hammitt JK, Jamison DT, Walker DG.
J Benefit Cost Anal. 2019. 10(Suppl 1):1-14. PMID: 33282627
Robinson LA, Hammitt JK, O'Keeffe L.
J Benefit Cost Anal. 2019. 10(Suppl 1):15-50. PMID: 32968616
Robinson, L.A., W.J. Raich, J.K. Hammitt, and L. O’Keeffe.
Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis. 2019. 2(10):156-177.
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