YuanYuan Michelle Cheng, MHS, is a health economist and trained pharmacist. She is currently a Research Manager at the Center for Innovation & Value Research. She holds a master’s in Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) from Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health. While at Johns Hopkins, Michelle contributed to the Drug Access and Affordability Initiative, where she conducted HEOR studies to evaluate new healthcare technologies and support health policy reform. Before this, she spent nearly three years in the pharmaceutical industry, focusing on medical communications across Southeast Asia, covering therapeutic areas such as diabetes, infectious diseases, and vaccines.