Elizabeth Osborn

Project Director (Past Affiliate)
Department of Global Health and Population

Elizabeth (“Betsy”) Osborn is Project Director of the Harvard China Health Partnership, supporting faculty and researchers to maximize connections at Harvard and impact of our health systems research for public health in China.

Previously, Betsy led multi-disciplinary research initiatives on Indonesia, India, and Malaysia at Harvard, and had a decade of service with the U.S. Agency for International Development including five years in Indonesia. Betsy has an Ed.M. in International Education Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is currently taking coursework in global heath here at the Harvard Chan School. She has researched organizational transformations at ministries of health and is interested in how health services are financed and delivered throughout Asia with an eye to thinking about how societies will handle their growing 65+ populations.

Betsy is also Project Director of the India Health Systems Project with Dr. Yip.