BIO
Naoru Koizumi (PhD in Regional Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2002; PhD in Environmental and Preventive Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan, 2005) is Professor and Associate Dean for Research at George Mason University. She specializes in health policies, particularly in the fields of chronic illnesses. Her research focuses on the applications of various quantitative tools, such as statistics, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), simulation, and mathematical optimization to analyze various policy questions related to medical issues and other social science areas.