Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Harvard University	PhD	2021	Health Policy - Decision Science
École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique, Paris, France	MPH	2011

Zach is a decision scientist with research interests in computational science and global health. His research has been published in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet Oncology, and Nature Medicine. He is also the author of Amua, an open source modeling framework and probabilistic programming language.

Zach is an Assistant Professor of Health Decision Science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and graduated from the Ph.D. Program in Health Policy at Harvard University in 2021, with a concentration in Decision Sciences and a secondary field in Computational Science and Engineering. He received his undergraduate degree in Global Health Management from Seattle Pacific University and his Masters of Public Health from l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique (EHESP) in Paris, with a concentration in Epidemiology.

Originally from Kenya, Zach has worked with various community-based NGOs in Tanzania, Malawi, and Rwanda, creating health information systems and management tools. At Harvard he has developed microsimulation models focused on various topics, including obesity, cancer, and maternal mortality, both in the US and globally. At Harvard Chan School, Zach has an appointment in the Department of Health Policy and Management, is core faculty at the Center for Health Decision Science (CHDS), and is director of research at the Health Systems Innovation Lab (HSIL).