Askal Ayalew Ali is currently working as an assistant professor in the Division of Economic, Social, and Administrative Pharmacy in the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Florida A&M University. She received her Bachelor of Arts (BA) from Economics Bahir-Dar University, Ethiopia, in 2005. She received her Ph.D. in Health Outcomes Research and Pharmacoeconomics from the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. She has many peer-reviewed publications. Her research interests include cancer screening and treatment, health disparities, comparative effectiveness research, pharmacoeconomics/health econometrics, decision modeling, evidence synthesis (systematic reviews and meta-analyses), and observational data analysis.