Professor Winnie Yip

Principal Investigator, India Health Systems Project; and Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics
Department of Global Health and Population

Dr. Winnie Yip’s research focuses on: 1) the design, implementation and evaluation of systemic health care interventions, for improving affordable and equitable access to and the efficiency and quality of health care delivery, especially for the poor; and 2) modeling and evaluating the effects of incentives on the behavior of providers (organization and individual) and patients. Dr. Yip’s research encompasses both why health systems fail and how to improve them…

Professor William C. Hsiao

K.T. Li Research Professor of Economics

William Hsiao is the K.T. Li Research Professor of Economics and directed the Health Financing Program at Harvard University.  Hsiao was elected to be a member of the US National Academy of Medicine.  Hsiao received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.  He is also a fully qualified actuary with extensive experience in private and social health insurance and pension. Hsiao has conducted health financing studies for more than four…

Professor Michael R. Reich

Taro Takemi Research Professor of International Health Policy, and Director of the Takemi Program in International Health
Department of Global Health and Population

Dr. Reich’s research addresses the political dimensions of public health policy, including health system strengthening and reform, access to medicines and pharmaceutical policy, and the political economy of policy-making processes. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Health Systems & Reform, which has published since January 2015. He has a Ph.D. in Political Science; M.A. in East Asian Studies (Japan); and B.A. in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry; all from Yale…