DASH Lab

Decision Analysis, Simulation and Health economics Lab (DASH Lab) is at the University of Ottawa’s School of Epidemiology and Public Health. DASH Lab contributes in guiding health policy and decision making through health and economic evaluations and methodological advancement. Students and trainees at DASH Lab will learn about how to conceptualize models for diseases under uncertainty, analyze and visualize large datasets and build mechanistic simulation models based on these data to emulate disease processes and optimize resource allocation under various policy decisions. The lab is led by Dr. Hawre Jalal.

Hawre Jalal, PhD, MD

Associate Professor

Canada Research Chair in Health Economics

As a clinician and health economist, I am interested in optimizing public health resource allocation. My main research currently focuses on understanding the economic and social drivers of the drug and opioid epidemic in North America. I am also interested in population modeling of cancer to better inform surveillance, screening, treatment and prevention. My research involves analyzing large datasets and use of econometric methods and simulation modeling to guide decisions. In addition, I am actively engaged in advancing methods in health economic evaluations. I am a member of two active international collaborations involving the use of computationally intensive Open-Source solutions to increase transparency and reproducibility of health economic evaluations, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for model calibrations, and promoting the use of value of information analyses for research prioritization and resource allocations: Decision Analysis in R for Technology and Health (DARTH), and the Collaborative Network for Value of Information (ConVOI).