Overview
Shelby D. Reed, PhD, is Professor in the Departments of Population Health Sciences and Medicine at Duke University’s School of Medicine. She is the director of the Center for Informing Health Decisions and Therapeutic Area leader for Population Health Sciences at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI). She also is core faculty at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy. Dr. Reed has over 20 years of experience leading multidisciplinary health outcomes research studies. Dr. Reed has extensive expertise in designing and conducting trial-based and model-based cost-effectiveness analyses of diagnostics, drugs and patient-centered interventions. In 2016, she co-founded the Preference Evaluation Research (PrefER) Group at the DCRI, and she currently serves as its director. She and the group are frequently sought to conduct stated-preference studies to inform regulatory decisions, health policy, care delivery, value assessment and clinical decision making with applied projects spanning a wide range of therapeutic areas. She served as President for ISPOR in 2017-2018, and she currently is Past-Chair of the Society’s Health Science Policy Council.
Areas of expertise: Health Economics, Health Measurement, Stated Preference Research, Health Policy, and Health Services Research
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Recent Publications
Physical rehabilitation for older patients with acute HFpEF (REHAB-HFpEF) trial: Design and rationale.
Journal Article Am Heart J · July 2026 RATIONALE: Older patients hospitalized for acute decompensated heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) experience persistently poor outcomes, including physical disability, cognitive impairment, depression, impaired health-related quality of ... Full text Link to item CiteGuidance or Misdirection? Unpacking the Role of Feedback in Health Preference Assessments.
Conference Health Econ · June 2026 This study investigated the impact of providing feedback to respondents on a dominance-structured choice task on subsequent choice behavior in a discrete choice experiment (DCE). The DCE was conducted among 626 patients with heart failure. Respondents were ... Full text Link to item CiteDevelopment of a decision aid to help dually enrolled veterans make informed choices on medication sourcing.
Journal Article J Manag Care Spec Pharm · May 2026 BACKGROUND: Veterans enrolled in both Veterans Affairs (VA) health care and Medicare Part D can choose to obtain medications through the VA, Medicare Part D, or both, with each option differing in cost, coverage, and coordination of care. Poorly informed c ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
State reproductive health policy as a determinant for maternal health
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2030Duke Women's Reproductive Health Research Scholars
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · 2020 - 2030Quantifying Patient Preference Information in Small-Scale Studies for Regulatory Decision Making
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Food and Drug Administration · 2025 - 2028View All Grants