A native metro-Detroiter, Gabby moved to west Michigan to attend Grand Valley State University where she earned her bachelor’s degree in Health Communications and minored in Philosophy.

Prior to Stanford, she worked for Spectrum Health, now Corewell Health, as a Communications Specialist, where she was responsible for managing the execution of the sponsorships funded by the health system, assisted in the project management of various community events and highlighted the work of the Community Relations team in the form of news and blog posts on the internal intranet site.

In her spare time, you can find her enjoying the outdoors from hiking, camping and kayaking or just reading on the beach!

Valeria Gracia Olvera (she/her) is a Health Policy PhD student in the Decision Sciences track and a Fulbright scholar. Prior to starting her PhD at Stanford in 2022, she worked as a research assistant at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico. In 2020, she joined the Stanford-CIDE COronavirus Simulation MOdel (SC-COSMO) (https://www.sc-cosmo.org/) consortium where she worked on high-impact projects to estimate the health effects of nonpharmaceutical interventions to control the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic in Mexico. Additionally, as a member of the Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET), Valeria worked on a project to model HPV transmission and cervical cancer disease at a state level in the United States. Her research interest is identifying cost-effective air pollution mitigation strategies to support decision making. Valeria holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering from Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi (UASLP) in Mexico, a Diplôme d’ingénieur from École Centrale Paris in France, and a master’s degree in Environmental Economics from CIDE.

Harry is a PhD student in Health Policy (Health Economics) at the Stanford School of Medicine. His research interests include pricing and market competition among hospitals, innovation and adoption of medical technologies, and wasted spending in the U.S. healthcare system. Harry earned a BS in Industrial Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and an MS in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University. During his master’s, he conducted research with the Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC), Systems Utilization Research for Stanford Medicine (SURF), and Health Equity Advancement through Research and Technology (Heart Lab). He was also a Summer Fellow for the Market Oversight & Transparency team at the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission. During his undergrad, he gained experience in the medical device, hospital, and biotech industries through internships with Medtronic, Stanford Health Care, and Cepheid.

Nova Bradford is a PhD candidate studying management and organizations at Stanford’s Department of Health Policy, where she is a Knight-Hennessey Scholar (Stanford’s equivalent of Rhodes). She studies how leaders and organizations respond to environments that are constrained, uncertain, or in flux. Her dissertation—advised by Sara Singer, Hayagreeva Rao, and Melissa Valentine—examines innovation, strategic decision-making, and artificial intelligence using ethnographic and computational methods. Bradford received the “Outstanding Paper Based on a Dissertation” award from the Academy of Management’s Health Care Management division. During her PhD, she taught courses in the Graduate School of Business and Department of Health Policy. Outside of her PhD, she is a stand-up comedian, playwright, and theater director, with work that has been featured in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and more.

Eliza Ennis is a Health Policy PhD student in the Decision Sciences track, a Knight-Hennessy Scholar, and NSF Graduate Research Fellow. She uses simulation modeling, causal inference, and mixed social science research methods to answer questions about the effectiveness of health policies and programs. Her work spans substance use, infectious disease, and reproductive, maternal, and infant health. She has been awarded two Lee B. Lusted awards in Applied Health Economics and Health Services, Outcomes, and Policy Research by the Society for Medical Decision Making. Previously, she worked on global health strategy at Dalberg Global Development Advisors. There, she designed structures for health financing reform, supported U.S. policy response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and developed a quantitative model to evaluate iron deficiency reduction approaches in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. She graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in social studies with a focus on international relations and the Modern Middle East and a secondary in Global health and health policy. She was awarded the Stanley H. Hoffman Undergraduate Research Fellowship and also established and led the Women’s Media Center research team in Washington, D.C. She aims to drive equitable health outcomes by scaling effective health system design.

James C. Dickerson, MD is a current oncology fellow at Stanford University, as well as a AHRQ health services research fellow. He is interested in understanding the extent of health disparities in cancer care, both in the United States and in low income countries. His prior research has focused on these domains, working on projects in Belize, Nigeria, and California. He received his B.A. from Vanderbilt University, and then returned home to receive his M.D. from the University of Mississippi. He completed his internal medicine residency at Stanford in 2021 and stayed at Stanford for his hematology/oncology fellowship.