News | May 8, 2026
A recent study by Tatyana Avilova, Economist at Secretariat has been selected by the Editor of JAMA Health Forum as an Editor’s Choice: Clinical Trial of 2025.
Tatyana Avilova is an economist with expertise in applied microeconomics, focusing on healthcare and education. Her research uses randomized controlled trials (RCTs), applied econometric methods, and surveys to analyze the impact of government and institutional policies on physicians, patients, students, and other individuals targeted by these policies. Dr. Avilova also has area expertise in the Japanese economy.
Prior to joining Secretariat, Dr. Avilova was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Bowdoin College and a Research Associate at the Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo. She has served as a referee at various journals, including the Journal of Health Economics, and as an editorial board member for the Social Science Japan Journal.
Dr. Avilova earned her Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University. At Columbia, Dr. Avilova worked as a Teaching Fellow for eight course terms and received the Wueller Fellowship, awarded for excellence in teaching, for several years.
Before graduate school, she was the project manager for the Undergraduate Women in Economics Challenge, an initiative started by Nobel Laureate Dr. Claudia Goldin to encourage undergraduate women to major in economics. Dr. Avilova was also a 2013-14 Fulbright Fellow at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. She earned her B.A. in Economics (magna cum laude) from Harvard University.
She is fluent in English and Russian and has advanced proficiency in Japanese (N2 level on the Japanese Language Proficiency Test).