Michael Maciosek is a Research Investigator at the HealthPartners Research Foundation specializing in resource allocation issues in prevention and disease management. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois in 1996, and from 1996 to 1998 he held a Prevention Effectiveness Fellowship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where he developed standardized methods of evaluating cost-effectiveness studies for the Committee on Clinical Preventive Service Priorities and the Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Dr. Maciosek has worked extensively in methodology and application of evidence-based priority setting while assisting Partnership for Prevention in their well-received study on priorities for clinical preventive services. He is also active in research in the areas of health behaviors, disease management, and health systems change.