Gulcan Cil

Gulcan Cil is a senior statistician and health policy researcher at the Center for Evidence-based Policy at Oregon Health & Science University and an Associate Scientist at Oregon Research Institute. She has a PhD in economics with a focus on advanced data analytic methods and health economics.

Her expertise is in using data from administrative records for research and advanced statistical methods for improved causal inference. She is particularly interested in policy evaluation in terms of their impacts on individual behaviors and outcomes, and assessment of the effects of different environmental and behavioral factors on health. She also has expertise in performing cost effectiveness analyses for school- and community-based interventions targeting health and educational outcomes.