Santiago Saldivar is a Predoctoral Researcher in the Economics Department at EIT, where he studies the state of health in the UK and evaluates measures to track and predict it. He graduated from Harvard College in 2024 with an A.B. in Applied Mathematics with a focus in Economics.

Before joining EIT, Santiago was a predoctoral fellow at Harvard Business School and Massachusetts General Hospital, working alongside researchers at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Health Care Policy. His undergraduate thesis examined how social capital influences graduation rates across the United States.

Santiago plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Economics in the near future. Outside of research, he enjoys running, photography, and perfecting his home-made flat whites.

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