Sharon Phares, PhD, MPH, is the Associate Director for Research at the Center for Biomedical System Design (CBSD) at Tufts Medicine and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. She directs CBSD’s research strategy and oversees all quantitative and qualitative research activities.
Sharon Phares is an accomplished health researcher and author of more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, as well as book chapters and white papers on a variety of healthcare topics. Her research focuses on the economics of biomedical innovation, access to healthcare, utilization and payment for medications, the healthcare payment ecosystem, and the impact of medicines on health and productivity. She has a passion for patient access to care balanced with payment design that supports a sustainable healthcare system.
Previously, Dr. Phares has had a number of roles including Chief Scientific Officer of the National Pharmaceutical Council (NPC), Senior Vice President of Research and Education at the Pharmaceutical Benefit Management Institute, Director of Analytic Consulting at Pharmaceutical Strategies Group (PSG), an EPIC company, Vice President of Research & Advanced Analytics at Express Scripts, as well as senior positions in research and analytics at Laboratory Corporation of America and Walgreens.
Dr. Phares holds both a PhD and a Master of Science in sociology from North Carolina State University, a Master of Public Health from the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and a Bachelor of Science degree from Columbus State University. She also served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Sharon was named as one of the top 100 Women Leaders in STEM and has considerable expertise in survey design, prescription drug benefit design and evaluation, health outcomes, employee health, wellness, and productivity, developing epidemiologic and population-based models of healthcare costs and utilization, behavioral economics, research methods, predictive modeling, and program evaluation.
