Thomas Tsai, MD, MPH
Thomas C. Tsai, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a member of the faculty in the Department of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is an associate faculty member of the Center for Surgery and Public Health, Ariadne Labs, and the Harvard Global Health Institute. His clinical practice focuses on bariatric surgery; surgical and endoscopic management of benign esophageal disorders, and abdominal wall reconstruction.
His research uses Medicare claims and other large datasets to study the effectiveness and unintended consequences of health policy interventions on the affordability, accessibility, and quality of health care in the United States. Current research projects leverage aggregated mobility data, claims data, and Census data to understand the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the US health care delivery system. His work has been profiled nationally and published in The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Health Affairs, Lancet, Annals of Surgery, and JAMA Surgery.
During 2014-2015, he served as a Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the US Department of Health and Human Services, where he received the Secretary’s Distinguished Service Award. Dr. Tsai currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the Council on Graduate Medical Education. Dr. Tsai is a graduate of Harvard College. He received his M.D. from Stanford University School of Medicine, and a MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.