Reza Yaesoubi, PhD
Associate Professor
Institute for Health Policy Studies
School of Medicine

His primary area of expertise lies in guiding decisions when evidence and data evolve too rapidly for static policies or guidelines to suffice—for example, during outbreaks of novel pathogens or the spread of antimicrobial resistance. He is also interested in advancing the theoretical and methodological foundations of adaptive decision-making and health care resource allocation.

• Using risk prediction models to inform personalized, cost-effective treatment recommendations.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2025 Neves MR, Franke M, Mitnick C, Ciobanu N, Crudu V, Furin J, Cohen T, Yaesoubi R
• Author Reply.
  Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 2025 Yaesoubi R
• Correction to "Association between city-level sociodemographic and health factors and the prevalence of antimicrobial-resistant gonorrhea in the US, 2000-2019: a spatial-temporal modeling study" The Lancet Regional Health-Americas 2025; 43, 101006].
  Lancet regional health. Americas 2025 Li J, Murray-Watson RE, St Cyr SB, Grad YH, Warren JL, Yaesoubi R
• Factors associated with the delay in diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis at the patient and health system level: A study from a rural setting in India.
  PloS one 2025 Hassan S, Yaesoubi R, Magnus OBH, Kanthali M, Purohit MR, Mustafa T
• Health-related quality of life among extrapulmonary tuberculosis patients and inequalities by disease manifestations: a longitudinal study analysing the impact of TB treatment.
  Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation 2024 Hassan S, Purohit MR, Kanthali M, Yaesoubi R, Jain S, Mustafa T
• Assessing thresholds of resistance prevalence at which empiric treatment of gonorrhea should change among men who have sex with men in the US: A cost-effectiveness analysis.
  PLoS medicine 2024 Yin X, Li Y, Rönn MM, Li S, Yuan Y, Gift TL, Hsu K, Salomon JA, Grad YH, Yaesoubi R
• Impact and cost-effectiveness of the 6-month BPaLM regimen for rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis in Moldova: A mathematical modeling analysis.
  PLoS medicine 2024 James LP, Klaassen F, Sweeney S, Furin J, Franke MF, Yaesoubi R, Chesov D, Ciobanu N, Codreanu A, Crudu V, Cohen T, Menzies NA
• Reply to "Considering Health Systems Worldwide: Point of View From a Middle-Income Country".
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2024 Tu LH, Melnick E, Venkatesh AK, Sheth KN, Navaratnam D, Yaesoubi R, Forman HP, Mahajan A
• The Impact of Rapid Drug Susceptibility Tests on Gonorrhea Burden and the Life Span of Antibiotic Treatments: A Modeling Study Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in the United States.
  American journal of epidemiology 2024 Yaesoubi R, Xi Q, Hsu K, Gift TL, St Cyr SB, Rönn MM, Salomon JA, Grad YH
• Cost-Effectiveness of CT, CTA, MRI, and Specialized MRI for Evaluation of Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Dizziness.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2023 Tu LH, Melnick E, Venkatesh AK, Sheth KN, Navaratnam D, Yaesoubi R, Forman HP, Mahajan A
• Resistance-minimising strategies for introducing a novel antibiotic for gonorrhoea treatment: a mathematical modelling study.
  The Lancet. Microbe 2023 Reichert E, Yaesoubi R, Rönn MM, Gift TL, Salomon JA, Grad YH
• CT With CTA Versus MRI in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Dizziness: Analysis Using Propensity Score Matching.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2023 Tu LH, Navaratnam D, Melnick ER, Forman HP, Venkatesh AK, Malhotra A, Yaesoubi R, Sureshanand S, Sheth KN, Mahajan A
• The Estimated Lifetime Quality-Adjusted Life-Years Lost Due to Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, and Trichomoniasis in the United States in 2018.
  The Journal of infectious diseases 2023 Li Y, You S, Lee K, Yaesoubi R, Hsu K, Gift TL, Chesson HW, Berruti AA, Salomon JA, Rönn MM
• Cost-Effectiveness and Long-Term Savings of the Bright Bodies Intervention for Childhood Obesity.
  Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 2023 Pryor S, Savoye M, Nowicka P, Price G, Sharifi M, Yaesoubi R
• Clinical criteria to exclude acute vascular pathology on CT angiogram in patients with dizziness.
  PloS one 2023 Tu LH, Malhotra A, Venkatesh AK, Taylor RA, Sheth KN, Yaesoubi R, Forman HP, Sureshanand S, Navaratnam D
• Cost-effectiveness analysis of typhoid conjugate vaccines in an outbreak setting: a modeling study.
  BMC infectious diseases 2023 Phillips MT, Antillon M, Bilcke J, Bar-Zeev N, Limani F, Debellut F, Pecenka C, Neuzil KM, Gordon MA, Thindwa D, Paltiel AD, Yaesoubi R, Pitzer VE
• Resistance-minimizing strategies for introducing a novel antibiotic for gonorrhea treatment: a mathematical modeling study.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2023 Reichert E, Yaesoubi R, Rönn MM, Gift TL, Salomon JA, Grad YH
• Estimation of the Lifetime Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) Lost Due to Syphilis Acquired in the United States in 2018.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2023 Lee K, You S, Li Y, Chesson H, Gift TL, Berruti AA, Hsu K, Yaesoubi R, Salomon JA, Rönn M
• Lifetime quality-adjusted life years lost due to genital herpes acquired in the United States in 2018: a mathematical modeling study.
  Lancet regional health. Americas 2023 You S, Yaesoubi R, Lee K, Li Y, Eppink ST, Hsu KK, Chesson HW, Gift TL, Berruti AA, Salomon JA, Rönn MM
• Yield of Head Computed Tomography Examinations for Common Psychiatric Presentations and Implications for Medical Clearance From a 6-Year Analysis of Acute Hospital Visits.
  JAMA internal medicine 2022 Tu LH, Malhotra A, Sheth KN, Yaesoubi R, Forman HP, Venkatesh AK
• Evaluating spatially adaptive guidelines for the treatment of gonorrhea to reduce the incidence of gonococcal infection and increase the effective lifespan of antibiotics.
  PLoS computational biology 2022 Yaesoubi R, Cohen T, Hsu K, Gift TL, St Cyr SB, Salomon JA, Grad YH
• Spatially targeted digital chest radiography to reduce tuberculosis in high-burden settings: A study of adaptive decision making.
  Epidemics 2022 de Villiers AK, Dye C, Yaesoubi R, Cohen T, Marx FM
• Simple decision rules to predict local surges in COVID-19 hospitalizations during the winter and spring of 2022.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2021 Yaesoubi R, You S, Xi Q, Menzies NA, Tuite A, Grad YH, Salomon JA
• Scenarios to improve CT head utilization in the emergency department delineated by critical results reporting.
  Emergency radiology 2021 Tu LH, Venkatesh AK, Malhotra A, Taylor RA, Sheth KN, Forman HP, Yaesoubi R
• Head and Neck CTA Utilization: Analysis of Ordering Frequency and Nonroutine Results Communication, With Focus on the 50 Most Common Emergency Department Clinical Presentations.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2021 Tu LH, Malhotra A, Venkatesh AK, Taylor RA, Sheth KN, Forman HP, Yaesoubi R
• Best Buy in Public Health or Luxury Expense?: The Cost-effectiveness of a Pediatric Operating Room in Uganda From the Societal Perspective.
  Annals of surgery 2021 Yap A, Cheung M, Muzira A, Healy J, Kakembo N, Kisa P, Cunningham D, Youngson G, Sekabira J, Yaesoubi R, Ozgediz D
• Evaluation of 6-Month Versus Continuous Isoniazid Preventive Therapy for Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Adults Living With HIV/AIDS in Malawi.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2020 Hsieh YL, Jahn A, Menzies NA, Yaesoubi R, Salomon JA, Girma B, Gunde L, Eaton JW, Auld A, Odo M, Kiyiika CN, Kalua T, Chiwandira B, Mpunga JU, Mbendra K, Corbett L, Hosseinipour MC, Cohen T, Kunkel A
• Tracking and predicting U.S. influenza activity with a real-time surveillance network.
  PLoS computational biology 2020 Leuba SI, Yaesoubi R, Antillon M, Cohen T, Zimmer C
• Cost Benefit Analysis of Limited Reopening Relative to a Herd Immunity Strategy or Shelter in Place for SARS-CoV-2 in the United States.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2020 Schonberger RB, Listokin YJ, Ayres I, Yaesoubi R, Shelley ZR
• Adaptive policies for use of physical distancing interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2020 Yaesoubi R, Havumaki J, Chitwood MH, Menzies NA, Gonsalves G, Salomon J, Paltiel AD, Cohen T
• Predicting the Impact of Typhoid Conjugate Vaccines on Antimicrobial Resistance.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2019 Kaufhold S, Yaesoubi R, Pitzer VE
• Accurate quantification of uncertainty in epidemic parameter estimates and predictions using stochastic compartmental models.
  Statistical methods in medical research 2018 Zimmer C, Leuba SI, Cohen T, Yaesoubi R
• Use of daily Internet search query data improves real-time projections of influenza epidemics.
  Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 2018 Zimmer C, Leuba SI, Yaesoubi R, Cohen T
• Prospects for Tuberculosis Elimination in the United States: Results of a Transmission Dynamic Model.
  American journal of epidemiology 2018 Menzies NA, Cohen T, Hill AN, Yaesoubi R, Galer K, Wolf E, Marks SM, Salomon JA
• A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of a Pediatric Operating Room in Uganda.
  Surgery 2018 Yap A, Muzira A, Cheung M, Healy J, Kakembo N, Kisa P, Cunningham D, Youngson G, Sekabira J, Yaesoubi R, Ozgediz D
• Progression from latent infection to active disease in dynamic tuberculosis transmission models: a systematic review of the validity of modelling assumptions.
  The Lancet. Infectious diseases 2018 Menzies NA, Wolf E, Connors D, Bellerose M, Sbarra AN, Cohen T, Hill AN, Yaesoubi R, Galer K, White PJ, Abubakar I, Salomon JA
• Tuberculosis control interventions targeted to previously treated people in a high-incidence setting: a modelling study.
  The Lancet. Global health 2018 Marx FM, Yaesoubi R, Menzies NA, Salomon JA, Bilinski A, Beyers N, Cohen T
• A Likelihood Approach for Real-Time Calibration of Stochastic Compartmental Epidemic Models.
  PLoS computational biology 2017 Zimmer C, Yaesoubi R, Cohen T
• Generalized Markov Models of Infectious Disease Spread: A Novel Framework for Developing Dynamic Health Policies.
  European journal of operational research 2011 Yaesoubi R, Cohen T
• Dynamic health policies for controlling the spread of emerging infections: influenza as an example.
  PloS one 2011 Yaesoubi R, Cohen T
• Payment contracts in a preventive health care system: a perspective from operations management.
  Journal of health economics 2011 Yaesoubi R, Roberts SD
• A game-theoretic framework for estimating a health purchaser's willingness-to-pay for health and for expansion.
  Health care management science 2010 Yaesoubi R, Roberts SD