Assistant Professor of Health Outcomes
Anton Avanceña (he, him) is a decision scientist and health policy researcher who aims to improve value and equity in health globally. Anton’s main area of research involves understanding and addressing the health, economic, and social consequences of mental and behavioral conditions such as alcohol misuse, substance use disorders, depression, and PTSD. Anton is especially focused on evaluating the costs, benefits, cost-effectiveness, and equity impacts of novel and existing treatments, pharmacotherapies, and population-level interventions through real-world data analysis, simulation modeling, and economic evaluation. Anton also conducts research in other clinical areas such as pediatrics, oncology, and infectious diseases, among others.
Methodologically, Anton is interested in developing decision-analytic methods that advance a justice-oriented definition of value in health. He is a founding member and chair (2023-2024) of the Health Equity Research Special Interest Group at ISPOR and has presented his work on equity-informative methods at the Society for Medical Decision Making, AcademyHealth, and the International Health Economics Association where he also serves on various committees.
At the University of Texas at Austin, Anton holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Internal Medicine and is an affiliate of the Center for Psychedelic Research & Therapy at the Dell Medical School. Anton is also a faculty affiliate of the Addiction Research Institute at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work and a founding faculty affiliate of the Texas Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health Research.
Anton received his Ph.D. in health services organization and policy from the University of Michigan where he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar. He received his undergraduate and graduate training in public health from the University of California, San Francisco and Santa Clara University.
Education
Ph.D., University of Michigan
M.S., University of California, San Francisco
B.S., Santa Clara University
Research Profile
NCBI: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Avance%C3%B1a%20A%5Bauthor%5D
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iKqmtkwAAAAJ&hl=en
Personal website: http://antonlv.com
Selected Recent Publications
*Denotes student(s)/trainee(s) at the time of the study.
CORE Research Area: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
Avanceña ALV, Rose AM, Gardner MD, Rutter MM, Schafer-Kalkhof T, Suorsa-Johnson KI, van Leeuwen KD, Weilder E, Gebremariam A, Sandberg DE, Prosser LA. Preferences in clinical care of individuals with differences of sex development. Pediatr 2024;153(6):e2023064207.
Perroud JM, Soldano S*, Avanceña ALV, Wagner A. Adult vaccination uptake strategies in low- and middle- income countries: a systematic review. Vaccine. 2022;40(36):5313-5321.
Avanceña ALV, Miller N*, Kim DeLuca E, Iott B, Mauri A, Eisenberg D, Hutton DW. The potential impact on mortality of income support policies in the US: a modeling study. JAMA Health Forum. 2022;3(6):e221537. doi: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2022.1537
Avanceña ALV, Kim DeLuca E, Iott B, Mauri A, Miller N*, Eisenberg D, Hutton DW. Income and income inequality are a matter of life and death. What can policymakers do about it? American Journal of Public Health. 2021;111(8):1409-1412. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306301
Avanceña ALV, Tejano KPS, Hutton DW. Cost-effectiveness of deploying physicians to underserved and rural areas in the Philippines. BMJ Open. 2019;9(12):e033455. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033455
CORE Research Area: Healthcare Systems Research
Cliff BQ, Avanceña ALV, Hirth R, Lee S-YD. The impact of Choosing Wisely interventions on unnecessary medical services: a systematic review. Milbank Quarterly 2021;99(4):1024-105. doi: 10.1111/1468-0009.12531
Avanceña ALV, Hutton DW. Optimization models for HIV/AIDS resource allocation: a systematic review. Value in Health. 2020;23(11):1509-1521. doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2020.08.001
Barton I, Avanceña ALV, Gounden N, Anupindi R. Unintended consequences and hidden obstacles in medicine access in Sub-Saharan Africa. Frontiers in Public Health. 2019;7:342. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00342
Sekhri Feachem N, Afshar A, Pruett C, Avanceña ALV. Mapping healthcare systems: a policy relevant analytic tool. International Health. 2017;9:252-262. doi: 10.1093/inthealth/ihx005
CORE Research Area: Health Economics and Outcomes Research
Avanceña ALV, Brody C, Chhoun P, Tuot S, Siyan Y. Using mHealth to reach female entertainment workers in Cambodia: an economic evaluation of the Mobile Link trial. JMIR Form Res 2024;8:e52734.
Heng JH, Han S, Park C, Avanceña ALV. Association between alcohol use disorder and hospital readmission rates and outcomes in cancer survivors: a population cohort study. J Natl Compr Canc Netw 2024;22(1):e237076.
Avanceña ALV, Miller A, Canana N, Dula J, Cadrinho B, Maffioli E. Achieving malaria testing and treatment targets for children under five in Mozambique: a cost-effectiveness analysis. Malaria J 2022;21:320.
Avanceña ALV, Kahn JG, Marseille E. The costs and health benefits of expanded access to MDMA-assisted therapy for chronic and severe PTSD in the US: a modeling study. Clinical Drug Investigation. 2022;42(3):243-252. doi: 10.1007/s40261-022-01122-0
Avanceña ALV, Prosser LA. Innovations in cost-effectiveness analysis that advance equity can expand its use in health policy. BMJ Global Health. 2022;7:e008140. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-008140
Graduate Courses
- PGS 390J Data Analysis in Health Care (Topic: Data analysis in R)
- PGS 390U Advanced Research Methods in Health Care (Topic: Stated-preference methods)
- PGS 196S Health Outcomes Division Graduate Seminar (Topic: Health equity in HEOR)
PharmD Courses
- PHM 384L Pharmacy and the US Health Care System (Topic: Health insurance)
Significant/Recent Activities
National and International Service Activities
- Member, Diversity, Anti-racism, and Transformation Team, Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM)
- Member, Professional Development Committee, Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM)
- Member, Membership Committee, AcademyHealth
- Member, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Promotion & Monitoring Group, International Health Economics Association (IHEA)
- Past-Chair, Health Equity Research Special Interest Group, ISPOR—The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research
- Member, Organizing Committee, Annual Global Health Supply Chain Summit
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2409 University Avenue, STOP A1930
Austin, TX 78712-1120
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