Yidan Cao, MS, MPP
Yidan (Eden) Cao is a PhD candidate in the Department of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School. Read Bio
2025-2026 Advisory Committee Members
Members-at-Large
Yidan (Eden) Cao is a PhD candidate in the Department of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School. Read Bio
Sarah Greene, M.P.H., is a Senior Advisor, Research Advocate, and Consultant with recent engagements supporting the National Academy of Medicine, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), the National Cancer Institute, and Kaiser Permanente. Read Bio
Harold S. Luft, Ph.D., is a Senior Scholar with AcademyHealth. Read Bio
Manza Mensah, PhD, is a Senior Research Scientist and Manager at the JPS Health Network Center for Epidemiology & Healthcare Delivery Research. Read Bio
Dr. LaQuandra S. Nesbitt is a board-certified family physician with over a decade of experience leading population health initiatives in governmental public health agencies. Dr. Nesbitt currently serves as Senior Associate Dean for Population Health Sciences and Health Equity and Bicentennial Endowed Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and is the inaugural Executive Director of the Center for Population Health Sciences and Health Equity. Read Bio
Dr. Gretchen Piatt is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Learning Health Sciences and Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan Schools of Medicine and Public Health. Read Bio
With nearly 40 years of experience in healthcare delivery and health services research, Lucy A. Savitz, PhD MBA, is now Professor in the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Health Policy and Management in the Graduate School of Public Health and Senior Innovation Advisor for the UPMC Insurance Division in their Center for High Value Health Care. Read Bio
Samuel (Sam) T. Savitz, Ph.D., is a health services researcher who analyzes factors related to undertreatment and overtreatment of health conditions and how care for individual patients can be optimized. Read Bio