Health Economics Seminars
Health Economics Seminars
The Stanford Health Economics seminar series is jointly sponsored by the Departments of Economics and Health Policy, and brings top scholars and experts in the field of health economics to campus to deliver talks about their latest research and to meet with faculty and students. Our invited speakers span a broad range of research areas, including the determinants of population health and health disparities, health insurance and health care systems design, public insurance programs including Medicare and Medicaid, pharmaceutical drug policies and pricing, medical debt, global health, health care reforms, social policy and its influence on population health outcomes, and climate change and its impacts on health.
April 1: Health Economics Seminar with Nicole Maestas: Social Security Disability Reform and Implications for Employment
Nicole Maestas, Ph.D. is a Professor of Health Care Policy (Economics) at Harvard Medical School and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), where she directs the NBER’s Retirement and Disability Research Center. She studies the economics of disability insurance, labor markets, health care systems, and population aging. Her research studies how the health and disability insurance systems affect individual economic behaviors, such as labor supply and the use of medical care.
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May 13: Health Economics Seminar with Leemore Dafny
Leemore Dafny, PhD, is the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration and the Mary Ellen Jay and Jeffrey Jay Fellow at the Harvard Business School, and Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Dafny is an applied microeconomist whose research examines competitive interactions among and between payers, providers of healthcare services, and pharmaceutical manufacturers, with an emphasis on policy implications.
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June 3: Heatlh Economics Seminar with Laura R. Wherry
Laura Wherry, PhD, is an associate professor of economics and public service at the New York University’s Wagner Graduate School for Public Service. Her research focuses on the role of public programs and policies on the health and economic well-being of individuals in the US. She has a particular interest in policies that affect access to health care for women and children in lower income families. Recent research examines the longer-term effects of several large expansions in Medicaid targeting low-income pregnant women and children in the 1980s and 1990s.
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