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Lauren Formica is a first year Mphil/PhD Candidate in Health Policy and Health Economics. Her doctoral research examines how threat narratives, institutional path dependencies, and international alliances interact to shape medical countermeasure priority-setting in the US and UK health security systems.
Before joining LSE, Lauren spent ten years working in management consulting where she drove federal budget formulation, developed national level policy, and stood up new programs for federal health agencies across the US government.
She holds a MPH from Johns Hopkins University and a MS in Business Analytics from the Wake Forest University School of Business.
Dissertation title:
Adapting to Uncertainty: U.S. and U.K. Medical Countermeasure Systems in a Changing Health Security Landscape
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