Bio
Rebecca Smith is part of The Dartmouth Institute’s Comparative Effectiveness Research Program led by Dr. Anna Tosteson. As a Fellow and coordinator, she contributes to multiple projects under a large research portfolio examining how innovations in health care impact health outcomes, cost, and quality of care. She has particular interest in understanding the sources of disparities in care for vulnerable populations including patient, provider, and system level factors, and how those factors may impact decision making. She is currently involved in multiple grants with the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC) looking at the effectiveness of breast cancer screening and patient reported outcomes. She also is engaged in the analysis for the U.S. component of The International Costs and Utilities Related to Osteoporotic Fractures Study (ICUROS) comparing costs, and impact of osteoporotic fractures on quality of life and resource utilization. Smith has worked on various research projects under the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth including the InSHAPE study, and a NIAAA sponsored clinical trial. She has held positions as a Global Health Scholar (2015-2016) and Global Health Fellow (2016-2017) both with The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. She earned her MS in health policy and health service research from The Dartmouth Institute in 2017. In 2011, she completed her dual BS in business administration and international affairs at The University of New Hampshire. As an undergraduate, she conducted research abroad at Fudan University in Shanghai China examining the changing structures and regulations for non-governmental organizations in China.