Dr. Schackman is Associate Professor of Public Health and Chief of the Division of Health Policy in the Department of Public Health at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. After earning a B.A. and an M.B.A. from Harvard University, he worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, as a management expert in the Office of the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, and as a managing director for health care venture capital investments in a financial services firm. He then returned to Harvard, where he earned his Ph.D. in health policy with a concentration in decision sciences.

Dr. Schackman's expertise is in economic evaluation of health interventions, cost-effectiveness modeling, quality-of-life measurement and access to health care by underserved populations - particularly relating to infectious diseases. His current projects include economic evaluations of HIV and hepatitis C care in the United States, and screening and care for HIV and syphilis in Haiti. He is a member of the Optimization of Antiretroviral Therapy Committee of the NIAID-funded AIDS Clinical Trials Group. In 2005, he was recognized with the Research in Action Award by the Treatment Action Group, a non-profit organization dedicated to advocating for larger and more efficient research efforts towards finding a cure for AIDS.