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 institutional design shapes firm behavior, investment, and market structure across sectors. I am especially interested in competition policy and health economics 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. The health sector has long been an interest of mine. Before Chicago, 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 long-time fan of classical music and jazz—I frequent the CSO and the Green Mill—and I enjoy long walks on the Lakefront Trail. I drink a lot of tea—a byproduct of having spent the greater part of the past three years in the U.K.—and I like to travel with friends when I can. I am also a big Marvel fan, especially of Spider-Man and Daredevil. 

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