Hugh Pearson
Harvard Kennedy Scholar | Research Fellow Harvard Health Systems Innovation Lab
- Role
- Research Fellow at Harvard Health Systems Innovation Lab
- Location
- Boston, MA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Hugh Pearson
I am a physician and Specialist Consultant in McKinsey\'s Social Healthcare and Public…
Experience
Research Fellow
Harvard Health Systems Innovation Lab
Nov 2024 — Present · Boston, MA, US
I currently work across the below research projects focusing on AI and its translation to public health and public policy research:NHS Media Narratives Analysis (1997–2025)| Research Lead: Designed and led 28-year computational study analyzing 35,838 newspaper articles to examine how media narratives shape NHS policy and service delivery. Developed validated AI pipeline using advanced NLP techniques to identify crisis and reform patterns. Lead 6-member research team coordination, analysis, and manuscript submission to lancet digital health.Global Cancer Control Plans Analysis | Research Lead: Leading multinational assessment of national cancer control strategies across 50 countries, from prevention to palliative care. Coordinated two-stage Delphi process with 67 international experts from WHO and UICC. Developing PRISM - a multi-agent AI architecture for automated policy evaluation - and led framework development and manuscript preparation to Lancet Oncology.Global CVD Control Plans AnalysisResearch Lead: Extending AI-driven policy assessment framework to cardiovascular disease control across 50+ countries. Coordinating expert recruitment with World Heart Federation and WHO cardiologists, leading framework adaptation, and organizing international consensus-building roundtable discussion.ARCADE: Adversarial Document AnalysisContributor: Supported development adversarial validation architecture for automated health policy assessment. Evaluating 144 policy documents across six NLP benchmarks to establish proof-of-concept for AI-driven document critique.T1D Clinic Readiness Assessment | Global Collaborative for Changing Diabetes in ChildrenResearch Lead: Developing baseline assessment of pediatric Type 1 Diabetes service capacity across LMIC sites. Leading multi-country data collection, gap analysis, team coordination, and manuscript preparation on determinants of sustainable clinical program scale-up.
Education
Harvard Kennedy School
Cross Registrant
2025 — 2025
UCL
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery - MBBS
2015 — 2021
Harvard Business School
Cross Registrant
2025 — 2025
King's College School Wimbledon
International Baccelaureate
2010 — 2015
UCL
Bachelor of Science - BS
2015 — 2018
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Master of Public Health - MPH
2024 — 2025
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