Ellerie Weber, PhD

Ellerie Weber is a Health Economist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences and Policy at the Icahn school of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She received her PhD in Business Economics from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at RAND-University of Pittsburgh’s Health Institute. Her research applies principles of microeconomics and econometric techniques to study the health sector, particularly how health policies affect prices, competition and health outcomes. She has published on topics relevant to current health policies, including Medicaid, telehealth, price transparency, and hospital-insurer bargaining. Dr. Weber’s current projects focus on maternal health and health equity, specifically looking at how Medicaid continuous coverage provisions granted to postpartum people under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act impacted beneficiaries’ insurance coverage and heath care utilization. She is also an expert in cost analyses and helps support clinicians, community based organizations, and other researchers assess the cost effectiveness of their particular practices or interventions. In addition to her PhD, Dr. Weber received an MBA the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Economics from the London School of Economics. A native New Yorker, she is a mom of three boys and enjoys spending time in nature with her family.