Celia Stafford

Celia Stafford is a doctoral student in Health Policy (Management). She received a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Emory University in 2017 and an MPH focused in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2020. She is also affiliated with the System Dynamics Research Group at MIT. Outside of school, she has spent time as a research fellow at the FDA, a research associate at Harvard Medical School, in operations research for a cyber-security firm, and in operations and finance for multiple Contract Research Organizations (CROs).

Her research goal is to decrease health care worker burnout by decreasing stressors and increasing satisfaction both on the patient and clinician side. In particular, she is interested in using System Dynamics methods (a methodological framework to understand, and manage change by modeling the relationships between all parts of a system to see how those relationships influence the behavior of the system over time) to focus on care delivery and manage health care as a service operation. 

Teaching

Overview

Teaching Fellow - Transforming Health Care Delivery (THCD) at Harvard Business School - Taught by Ariel Stern Spring 2022, Spring 2023
Teaching Fellow - Introduction to System Dynamics for Executive MBAs at MIT Sloan - Taught by John Sterman and David Keith Summer 2022
Teaching Fellow - Introduction to System Dynamics at MIT Sloan - Taught by Hazhir Rahmandad Fall 2022

Awards & Honors

Winner of the 2021 Dana Meadows Award from the System Dynamics Society for “Reducing Opioid Use Disorder and Overdose in the United States: Model Development and Estimation” with Tse Yang Lim and Erin Stringfellow.

Area of Study

• Health Policy Management