Vilsa Eliana Curto, PhD, is an assistant professor of health policy at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a faculty associate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Curto is a health economist with research interests in private Medicare health plans, managed competition in health care markets, and vertical integration in health care markets. Her work has been published in the Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, the Journal of Health Economics, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Health Affairs.
Before joining UCLA, Curto was a postdoctoral associate in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an assistant Professor of health economics and policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Curto holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard, a master's degree in economics from Stanford, and a doctoral degree in economics from Stanford.