Claire Boone

Claire Boone is an Assistant Professor at McGill University with a joint appointment between the Department of Economics and the Department of Equity, Ethics, and Policy in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. She also serves as an Associate Investigator at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), specifically within the Cardiovascular Health Across the Lifespan Program. Her work bridges health economics, policy analysis, and clinical decision-making to improve healthcare delivery systems.

Dr. Boone earned her PhD in Health Policy and Health Economics from UC Berkeley and holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree. Prior to joining McGill, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Center for Applied AI and worked as a research scientist in the Health Research Accelerator group at Providence.

Dr. Boone's research focuses on understanding how clinicians make decisions and how to improve health care delivery through rigorous economic analysis. As a health economist, she studies the real-world impacts of healthcare delivery using big data and quasi-experimental methods to evaluate policies like financial incentives for doctors or new tools like AI decision support. Her work often examines how reminders, nudges, and system changes can improve preventive care and chronic disease management. She has conducted research in diverse settings including Chile, Kenya, and the United States, addressing questions of health equity, access to care, and the impact of early-life nutrition on long-term health outcomes.

Her research spans multiple methodological approaches and addresses critical healthcare questions including clinical decision-making discretion, value-based payment models, AI adoption in healthcare, and the long-term health impacts of early-life nutritional exposures. Her findings on sugar rationing in early life and its protective effects against chronic disease received particularly widespread attention in both academic and media circles.

Dr. Boone has secured significant research funding to support her work on healthcare delivery systems, behavioral interventions, and health policy evaluation. Her research often involves large-scale natural experiments and randomized field trials to generate evidence that can inform health system improvements across different healthcare settings and populations.

While specific details about her laboratory or research team are not provided in the available information, her collaborative work suggests she leads or participates in multidisciplinary research teams involving economists, clinicians, epidemiologists, and data scientists to tackle complex questions in healthcare delivery and policy.