Leah Rand, DPhil

Leah Rand, DPhil, is a Research Scientist with the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law (PORTAL) at Brigham and Women's Hospital. She teaches Foundations of Bioethics for the MBE program and leads a Capstone seminar and the Health Policy & Bioethics Consortia.

Her work focuses on prescription drug pricing policy with a particular focus on fair pricing, health technology assessment, and healthcare access. She also works on ethical issues in public trust of regulators. Prior to joining PORTAL, Leah staffed a consensus study at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on public health emergency preparedness and response where she also contributed to writing a framework of ethical considerations for innovative biomedical technologies. She has published on quality-adjusted life years, prescription drug price negotiations, ethical issues in health technology assessment, patient and public involvement in research and health technology appraisal. Leah graduated from the University of Chicago and received an MA in philosophy from University College London, where she was a Marshall Scholar, and a doctorate in applied ethics from the University of Oxford.