Nawar Bin Nayeem

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I am a quantitative researcher in health economics and psychiatric epidemiology, specializing in the application of microeconometrics and machine learning to large-scale health data. My work focuses on understanding risk factors and policy impacts related to mental health outcomes, including suicidality and substance use.

I earned my PhD in Economics from Lehigh University in August 2023, under the supervision of Dr. Shin-Yi Chou, and previously served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience — under the mentorship of Dr. Erick Messias and Dr. Daniel Lin — at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. I have worked closely with clinicians, epidemiologists, health economists, and medical students across multiple institutions — including the University of Pennsylvania, University of New South Wales (UNSW), SUNY Buffalo, the University of Vermont, Michigan State University, and Henry Ford Health.

Research Interests

Health economics, psychiatric epidemiology, causal inference, machine learning, substance use, suicidality, mental health services research, and health disparities.

Teaching

At Louisiana State University, where I served as a Visiting Assistant Professor during the 2023–24 academic year, I taught Health Economics at the PhD [syllabus-fall 2023] and undergraduate [syllabus-fall 2023] levels, along with Principles of Microeconomics [syllabus-spring 2024]. I also taught applied business statistics [syllabus-summer 2021] in Lehigh's 1-MBA program as an adjunct, and delivered lectures on causal inference and applied quantitative methods in epidemiology at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine.