Meet the Instructor

Aasthaa Bansal

Associate Professor, UW Department of Pharmacy, Comparative Health Outcomes, Policy, and Economics (CHOICE) Institute 

Aasthaa Bansal is an associate professor in the Comparative Health Outcomes, Policy & Economics (CHOICE) Institute in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Washington, and holds a joint appointment in the division of public health sciences at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. 

Her research interests include prediction modeling for sequential decision-making, comparative effectiveness and outcomes research using large health care databases, addressing missingness in longitudinal patient data due to intermittent follow-up, and addressing discrimination in health care decision-making with machine learning algorithms. She served as a member of the ISPOR Health Sciences Policy Council from 2020-2022 and in 2022 and 2023, served as the scientific co-chair for the Society for Medical Decision Making Annual Meeting.  

Bansal earned her Ph.D. and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in biostatistics from the University of Washington. See Bansal’s full profile.