Anthony T. Lo Sasso, PhD, is a Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago's School of Public Health and the Institute of Government and Public Affairs (IGPA) at the University of Illinois. He also serves as the Executive Director of the American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon).

Dr. Lo Sasso is an economist whose research spans several dimensions of health and labor economics. Dr. Lo Sasso is keenly interested in how government policies affect private sector decisions. Dr. Lo Sasso has studied the impact of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program on insurance coverage among children and the extent to which public coverage “crowded out” private coverage. In addition, he has examined how community rating provisions affected individual health insurance coverage. Dr. Lo Sasso also studies the effects of health savings accounts and other aspects of health insurance benefit design on service use, spending, and health outcomes.

Dr. Lo Sasso received his doctorate in economics in 1996 from Indiana University, Bloomington.