J. Felipe Montano-Campos, PhD

Biography

Felipe conducts research at the intersection of economics, decision science, and health policy. He investigates how individuals and health systems value, adopt, and respond to medical innovation, with applications in dementia, cancer, and chronic disease.

His work aims to improve how new medical technologies are targeted to the patients most likely to benefit, understand how individuals make decisions about whether to adopt them, and estimate their long-term health and economic consequences, including how gains vary across individuals with different clinical, biological, and socioeconomic characteristics.

Felipe earned his PhD in Health Economics from the CHOICE Institute at the University of Washington, an MS in Computer Science and Economics from Duke University, and a BA in Economics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Before joining USC, he conducted research at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and Duke Clinical Research Institute, worked on precision oncology at Guardant Health, and contributed to health policy evaluation at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

RCAD 2026-2027 Project:  Lifetime dementia burden: clinical social and biological drivers