Aaron Beaston-Blaakm

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• Health Economics and Financing Research Consultant at Family Health International

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Aaron Beaston-Blaakm’s Summary

Aaron Blaakman is a Health Economics and Financing Research Consultant with extensive expertise in Africa and other international venues. Aaron P. Beaston-Blaakman’s most recent domestic project, “A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis of Costing Methodologies in Substance Abuse Treatment,” was funded by the NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse for three years, 2004 through 2007.

Research Positions and Projects
Aaron Blaakman has held several research positions over the last decade. From 2005 to 2008, he held the position of Scientist I in Economics at Family Health International, Durham, N.C. While there, Aaron P. Beaston-Blaakman acted as principal investigator on the NIH project. He also conducted cost analysis of peer education, family planning, screening and other health and human services initiatives in Guinea, Kenya, Mali, South Africa, Senegal, Uganda and Zambia.

From 1998 to 2005, Aaron Blaakman was a research associate conducting substance abuse and international health cost and cost-effectiveness analysis at Brandeis University, Schneider Institute for Health Policy and Heller School for Social Policy and Management in Massachusetts. While there, Aaron P. Beaston-Blaakman worked on the NIH project as well as many other cost-analysis projects concerning substance abuse and other health issues. From 2000 to 20003 he was also the principal investigator of a seed grant for the Heller School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare; the proposal was a strategic collaboration between the Heller School, Acre Family Day Care and the community of Lowell, Mass.

Aaron Blaakman has additionally conducted cost-analysis consulting projects for Texas Christian University; the Family First Project; the University of North Carolina School of Medicine; the University of Massachusetts Medical Center; Columbia University’s National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse; Mt. Sinai Medical Center; and many others.

Aaron Beaston-Blaakm’s Experience

• Health Economics and Financing Research Consultant

  Family Health International

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  Currently holds this position

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