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Top 2% of scientists worldwide in a study by Stanford University in 2021

2021

Included in list of World's Most Highly Cited Researchers in 2015 and 2016 by Thomson Reuters and Clarivate Analytics

2015

His main areas of health economics research include:

1. Health Technology Assessments and Cost-effectiveness Analyses

2. Behavioural Trials of Public Health Interventions, including economic incentives

3. Preference Assessments using state-of-the-art techniques

Annual medical spending attributable to obesity: Payer-and service-specific estimates

Health Affairs – Finkelstein E.A., Trogdon J.G., Cohen J.W., Dietz W. (2009)

22 (1);

National medical spending attributable to overweight and obesity: How much, and who's paying?

Health Affairs – Finkelstein E.A., Fiebelkorn I.C., Wang G. (2003)

22 (1);

Obesity and severe obesity forecasts through 2030

American Journal of Preventive Medicine – Finkelstein E.A., Khavjou O.A., Thompson H., Trogdon J. G., Pan L., Sherry B., Dietz W.  (2012)

42 (6); 563-570

Economic causes and consequences of obesity

Annual Review of Public Health – Finkelstein E.A., Ruhm C.J., Kosa K.M.  (2005)

26 239-257

State-level estimates of annual medical expenditures attributable to obesity

Obesity Research – Finkelstein E.A., Fiebelkorn I.C., Wang G. (2004)

12 (1); 18-24

Influencing the nutritional quality of grocery purchases: A randomized trial to evaluate the impact of a social norm-based behavioral intervention with and without a loss-framed financial incentive

Food Policy – 1. Shin S., Mihir G., Puri J., Finkelstein E.A.  (2024)

Efficacy of a mHealth-delivered behavioral intervention on postpartum weight loss and cardiometabolic risk: The SnapBack RCT

Obesity – Herring S., Yu D., Darden N., Bailer B., JJW., Santoro C., Veronica B., Hart C., Finkelstein E.A., Lu X, Bennett G., Foster G.  (2024)

Cost-effectiveness of group medical visits and microfinance strategies for the management of hypertension in Kenya

Lancet Global Health – Chay J., Su R.J., Kamano J.H., Andama B., Bloomfield G.S., Delong A.K., Horowitz C.R., Menya D., Mugo R., Orango V., Pastakia S.D., Wanyonyi C., Vedanthan R., Finkelstein E.A. (2024)

Navigating public policy responses to a pandemic: The balancing act between physical health, mental health and household income

Value in Health – Finkelstein E.A., Ozdemir S., Huynh V.A., Chay J., Mühlbacher A., Tan H.K. (2024)

Are cash incentives always king? A randomized controlled Trial Evaluating Hedonic versus Cash incentives (TEH-C)

Frontiers in Public Health – Finkelstein E.A., Chow M.T., Gandhi M.  (2024)

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Getting it right with discrete choice experiments: are we hot or cold?

Social Science and Medicine – Ozdemir S., Gonzalez J.M., Bansal P., Huynh V.A., Sng B.L., Finkelstein E.A. (2024). Getting it right with discrete choice experiments: are we hot or cold? Social Science and Medicine*, 2024 Apr 348:116850.   (2024)

348

PRECIOUS demonstrated satisfactory measurement properties for assessing the quality of care for children with serious illnesses

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology – Ang, F.J.L., Cheung Y.B., Gandhi M., Ostbye T., Malhotra, C., Malhotra R., Chow CC-T., Chong P.H., Amin Z., Tan T.S.Z., Tewani, K., Buang S.N.H., Finkelstein E.A. (2024)

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Goals of care among patients with advanced cancer and family caregivers in the last years of life

JAMA Network Open – Ozdemir S., Chaudhry I., Malhotra C., Teo I., Finkelstein E.A., COMPASS Study Group (2024)

7 (4); e245866-e245866

Changes in prognostic beliefs of patients with metastatic cancer and their association with changing health status

Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network – Gupta I, Finkelstein E.A., Ozdemir S, Malhotra C.  (2023)

21 (10); 1021-1028

A systematic review of the economic value proposition for commercially available non-surgical weight loss interventions

Obesity – Finkelstein E.A., Chodavadia P., Strombotne K.  (2023)

31 (7); 1725-1733

Can we have our cake and eat It too? Not when It comes to anti-obesity medication prices (commentary)

Obesity – Finkelstein E.A., Chay, J.X. (2023)

31 (5); 1183-1184

Integration of a multicomponent intervention for hypertension into primary healthcare services in Singapore-A cluster randomized controlled trial

PLoS Medicine – Jafar, T. H., Tan, N. C., Shirore, R. M., Allen, J. C., Finkelstein, E. A., Hwang, S. W., Koong, A. Y. L., Moey, P. K. S., Kang, G. C., Goh, C. W. T., Subramanian, R. C., Thiagarajah, A. G., Ramakrishnan, C., Lim, C. W., Liu, J., & SingHypertension Study Group  (2022)

19 (6);

Perceived stigma and its correlates among Asian patients with advanced cancer: A multi-country APPROACH study

Psycho-oncology – Teo, I., Bhaskar, A., Ozdemir, S., Malhotra, C., Hapuarachchi, T., Joad, A. K., Manalo, M. F., Mariam, L., Ning, X., Palat, G., Rahman, R., Tuong, P. N., Finkelstein, E. A., & APPROACH study group  (2022)

31 (6); 938-949

Evaluations of combinations of nudging, pricing, and labelling strategies to improve diet quality: A virtual grocery store experiment employing a multiphase optimization strategy

Annals of Behavioral Medicine – Shin, S., Chakraborty. B., Yan. X., Van Dam, R.M., Finkelstein E.A.  (2022)

Cost effective analysis of dual-energy computer tomography for the diagnosis of occult hip fractures among the elderly

Value in Health – Low, Y.L., Finkelstein, E.A.  (2021)

24 (12); 1754-1762