Shannon Sweeney

Shannon Sweeney is a researcher affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine, focusing on health economics, infectious disease epidemiology, and global health policy. Her work emphasizes cost-effectiveness analysis of tuberculosis treatments, macroeconomic impacts of diseases, and healthcare system interventions for substance use disorders. She collaborates internationally on studies involving TB treatment regimens, opioid substitution therapy protocols, and modeling disease burden in high-prevalence regions like India and Moldova.

Research interests include:

• Economic evaluations of novel TB therapies
• Healthcare cost projections for infectious diseases
• Systematic reviews of clinical decision-making challenges
• Protocol development for mixed-methods public health studies

Recent work demonstrates expertise in:

• Modeling TB transmission dynamics in household contacts
• Cost-benefit analyses of adherence devices in China
• Economic implications of new antimicrobial regimens

Her publications highlight interdisciplinary approaches combining epidemiological data with economic modeling to inform global health policy decisions.