Courses
Behavioral Economics for Tech (BEtech)
Behavioral economics studies the effect of psychological, social, cognitive and emotional factors on human decisions and behaviors. This course will help students learn key concepts from behavioral economics and apply them in their daily lives, in the design of products, and in the research of human behavior. This course will explore the opportunities and challenges faced by researchers and practitioners when exploring the interplay between behavioral economics and technology.
Teaching at Cornell Tech
Behavioral Economics for Health (BEhealth)
This course is designed specifically for medical residents to explore how psychological, cognitive, and emotional factors influence healthcare decision-making and patient behaviors. Through this course, residents will gain insights into key principles of behavioral economics—such as framing effects, choice architecture, and loss aversion—and learn how these concepts can be applied to encourage healthier behaviors, improve patient compliance, and design more effective healthcare interventions. The course combines theory with practical examples, helping medical residents understand how to integrate these insights into clinical practice, enhance patient outcomes, and optimize healthcare delivery.
Teaching at Northwell Health
Introduction to Digital Health (makeHealth)
This is a course designed to introduce students to the basic principles and innovations in mobile health, through hands-on classroom experience and subject matter expert lectures and feedback. It goes without saying that the shape of healthcare is currently experiencing permanent changes to its usual practices. New technologies and workflows are transforming the healthcare landscape. Conjointly, healthcare has already emerged as one of the most motivating areas of tech development, and it will be in this time that it is most needed. We believe the current environment has created an important opportunity to expose students to core concepts of healthcare technologies, collaboration, and innovation. Given the current global environment, it will be invaluable for students to develop the basic framework and understanding of these core concepts and be able to apply them to the challenges and issues they are seeing in the clinical world and beyond.
Teaching at Cornell Tech and Weill Cornell Medicine
