Meet the Instructor

Douglas Barthold

Associate Professor, The Comparative Health Outcomes, Policy and Economics (CHOICE) Institute, University of Washington

Douglas Barthold is an associate professor at the CHOICE Institute. He joined the faculty in 2018, after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California. Barthold is broadly interested in the relationships between health policies, health care utilization and health outcomes and inequalities.

Barthold's current research examines the intersection between health policies, chronic disease management and cognition, from mid-life to end-of-life. This includes the role of health policies in the management of mid-life risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, as well as the value of care for conditions that influence healthy aging. He received his Ph.D. in economics from McGill University in 2015, with a specialization in empirical health economics.