Mohammad S. Jalali

Mohammad Jalali (aka, ‘MJ’) is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School based at MGH Institute for Technology Assessment. He is also a research affiliate and senior lecturer at MIT Sloan’s System Dynamics Group and a faculty affiliate with the Harvard Data Science Initiative. MJ uses data science and simulation-based approaches to help policymakers identify and develop high-leverage policies that not only are effective over the long haul but also are not thwarted by unanticipated side effects. To achieve this goal, he spends a great deal of time working with decision-makers and policymakers, doing fieldwork, and collecting different types of data that can inform richer models and analyses.