I'm a master's student at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, where I study economic policy and how public institutions shape the behavior of firms, investments, and market structure in a variety of sectors. I am particularly interested in competition policy and the economics of health care in the United States.

I am also a research assistant at the Initiative on Enabling Choice and Competition in Health Care Markets in the Department of Economics under Tomas J. Philipson and Casey B. Mulligan. Previously, at the University of Edinburgh, I worked with Public Health Scotland to produce prevalence forecasts of 8 major diseases for their Whole System Model. The project is available on my GitHub.

Outside of academics, I am a major fan of classical music and jazz—the CSO and the Green Mill especially—and I love walking on the Lakefront Trail. I also like classic books, philosophy, history, Marvel, and Lord of the Rings.

If you’d like to connect, you can either see my LinkedIn at left, or email me at cyrusseyrafi@uchicago.edu.