Leah Rand, DPhil
Leah Rand is a Lecturer at Harvard Medical School in the Center for Bioethics and a Research Scientist at PORTAL. She works on issues of bioethics and healthcare, with a particular focus on value assessment, international health technology assessment and pricing, and ethics and the FDA. She also works on ethical issues in value-based pricing and public involvement in research and priority setting. Prior to joining PORTAL, Leah staffed a consensus study at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on public health emergency preparedness and response where she also contributed to writing a framework of ethical considerations for innovative biomedical technologies. Leah graduated from the University of Chicago and received an MA in philosophy from University College London, where she was a Marshall Scholar, and a doctorate in population health and bioethics from the University of Oxford.
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