Priority setting for HIV and mental health policy in Mexico: ethical, historical and empirical perspectives

Adriane Gelpi is a PhD candidate in Health Policy at Harvard University, with a concentration in Ethics. Her doctoral dissertation examines priority setting for HIV and mental health policy in Mexico from three distinct disciplinary perspectives: ethics, history and quantitative analysis. She previously completed a Masters in Public Health at the Center for History and Ethics of Public Health and Medicine at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, and an AB degree, magna cum laude, in History and Science from Harvard University.

Adriane’s academic interests center on the ethics and history of public health, specifically regarding issues of fairness in priority setting and resource allocation for public health in developing countries. She has worked on public health projects in India, Kenya, Colombia and Mexico. She is a past recipient of funding from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard Graduate Prize Fellowship, the National Institute of Mental Health and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard.

During her 2012 visit to the Brocher Foundation, Adriane will work on completing a draft of her dissertation.

In 2012-3, Adriane will serve as a jointly appointed Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard Law School and the Center for Health Decision Science at the Harvard School of Public Health.  During this fellowship year, she will combine qualitative and normative methods to investigate public deliberation as a potential tool for improved fairness in public health priority setting.