Preeti Zanwar, PhD, MPH, MS

Lecturer

Preeti Zanwar

Contact

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Philadelphia, PA 19107

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Preeti Zanwar, PhD, MPH, MS

Lecturer

Research & Practice Interests

Health Economics & Economics of Health Equity
Modelling Healthcare Costs and Counts
Cognitive Aging/Disability over Life Course
Short and Long Term Outcomes for Viral Infections
Cancer Screening/Access to Preventive Health Services
Connected Technology 

Education

Post-Doctoral, Minority Aging, NIA Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, University of Texas Medical Branch
PhD, Management and Policy Sciences (Track: Health Economics and Health Services Research, Minor: Biostatistics), UTHealth School of Public Health at Houston Health Science Center
MPH, Epidemiology, UTHealth School of Public Health at Houston Health Science Center
MS, Biological Sciences, University of Houston Clear Lake/Baylor College of Medicine
BS, Biology, Minor: Mathematics, University of Houston

Publications

Additional Publications

  • One Health and Averting the Next Pandemic: Concept, Origin, Evolution, and Challenges, June 12, 2021. Available at SSRN
  • Using Positive Deviance and Citizen Healthcare Model for Coproduction. Western States Medical Monographs. Western States MM TR-01-2019

Certifications

  • Health Economics & Outcomes Research, University of Washington School of Pharmacy
  • Measurement, Design, & Analysis Methods in Health Outcomes Research, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • Public Healthcare Modeling in Decision Analysis and Markov Modeling, TreeAge Software Inc.
  • Advanced Biomedical Research Strategies, University of Texas Medical Branch
  • Health and Society, Harvard University/edX
  • United States Health Policy, Harvard University/edX
  • Health in Numbers: Quantitative Methods in Clinical & Public Health Research, Harvard University/edX

University Appointment

Lecturer, Jefferson College of Population Health

Teaching

Economics of Health Insurance
Epidemiology for Outcomes Research 
Practice-based Health Statistics

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SPECIAL APPOINTMENTS

NIA-AGCD2 Chartered Review Committee, Career Development for Early Career Investigators Study Section, Oct 2021 

NIA-S Behavior & Social Science of Aging Review Committee, Early Career Reviewer, Sept. 2020 and June 2020. 

Bright Focus Foundation, American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), Special Opportunity Award Reviewer, August 2020.

NIA-S Ad Hoc Reviewer, Special Emphasis Panel (SEP), Research Education: Short Courses on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Bethesda, MD, June 2020.

NIA Ad-hoc Reviewer, Tailoring Interventions to Improve Preventive Health Service Use, Bethesda, MD, March 2020. 

COVID-19 Prevention Sub-group Lead. Network of Minority Health Research Investigators (NMRI) COVID-19 Research Network Group, NIH/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK), August 2021.

Invited Attendee, Smart Cities and New Green Solutions, Nobel Prize Summit, Our Planet, Our Earth, April 2021.

Invited Attendee/Panelist, Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention (PIPP), Predicting Emergence of Virulent Entities by Novel Technologies (PREVENT), National Science Foundation, February 22-23, 2021.

COVID & Frailty Rehabilitation Task Force, Geriatric Rehabilitation Networking Group, American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM), May 2021-present.

Chair, National Trends and Geographic Variation in ADRD Utilization and Costs. Aging, Disability, and End-of-Life Section, AcademyHealth, June 13-16, 2020 Boston, MA.

Scientific Planning Committee Member & Discussant, Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy& Economics, 5thBiennial Conference of the American Society of Health Economists, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2014.

Research Participant in Clinical Trials (2004-2012), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX:

  •  fMRI Functional Brain Imaging/Perception Study
  •  Human Microbiome Project
  • 13-month Clinical Trial for Malaria Vaccine
  • Clinical Trial for H1NI Flu Vaccine

Biography

Dr. Preeti Zanwar is a health economist and health services researcher with 13 years of laboratory experience in molecular virology, clinical epidemiology and imumondiagnostics. Her research is focused on disparities in access to preventive care (including cancer screening) by disability, and/or race and ethnicity;  socioeconomics pathways to cognitive aging in developed vs. developing countries; inequities in vaccine uptake/outcomes of viral infection; and modelling differences in health care costs of multimorbidity.

She has combined 20 years of translational research experience in basic and social sciences, public health, and population health at two medical schools (Baylor College of Medicine and University of Texas Medical Branch) and two Texas public health institutions (UTHealth School of Public Health & Texas A&M University School of Public Health where she has served as Instructional Assistant Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics). She is faculty affiliate/fellow of the Center for Population Health & Aging (CPHA); Center for Health Systems & Design at Texas A&M University; and faculty member of The Network on Life Course Health Dynamics and Disparities in 21st Century America (NLCHDD) at University of Southern California Los Angeles, an interdisciplinary group of scientists at the forefront of research on the social determinants of U.S. population health and health disparities. It is funded by the NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA). She is also a member of the COVID & Frailty Rehabilitation Task Force for the Geriatric Rehabilitation Networking Group of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine.

Dr. Zanwar is an early career investigator and splits her time between: 1) teaching/re-designing and delivering online courses; 2) research (leading manuscripts and writing grant proposals); and 3) mentoring minority scholars and junior faculty in research. Additionally, she provides service and contributes to  professional societies (e.g. AcademyHealth, American Society of Health Economics, International Health Economics Association, The Alzheimer’s Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment, Gerontological Society of America, American Public Health Association, Population Association of America); and scholarly journals. Dr. Zanwar has been a peer reviewer and grant reviewer for federal agencies and as has played a key role in various capacities on grants that have been intramurally or extramurally funded (Texas A&M Institute of Data Science Data Resource Development Program, Texas A&M University Interdisciplinary X-Grant Program, National Space Biomedical Research Institute, National Cancer Institute, and NIA). Of the total $9 million in extramural/intramural grant support, $442,433 is attributable to her.