Tianyan Hu, PhD, works in the Center for Observational and Real-World Evidence, Merck & Co., Inc. She received her doctorate from Lehigh University in 2013 and obtained her postdoctoral training at University of Pennsylvania. She was an assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Florida International University. She was also a visiting health economist at the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Hu applies economic principles and state-of-the-art econometric methods to research. Her research interests include maternal and child health, health care utilization among vulnerable population, and cost-benefit analyses of health policies. She is also interested in the neuropsychiatric symptoms, functional difficulties, and prescription drugs utilization among dementia patients. Her research has been published in various high-impact public health and economics journals, including Health Services Research, Annals of Emergency Medicine, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, and Southern Economic Journal.