Health Economics Program

Faculty at SIEPR’s Health Economics Program work on understanding how to improve the efficiency of the U.S. health care system and how to use the tools of economic analysis to improve health care outcomes across the globe. Led by Stanford Health Policy (CHP/PCOR) director Alan Garber, SIEPR’s Health Economics Program includes Stanford’s leading health economists: Victor Fuchs, Alain Enthoven, Jay Bhattacharya, Laurence Baker, Kate Bundorf, Gopi Shah Goda and a handful of postdoctoral scholars. The program aims to draw on the mission of Stanford Health Policy — doing meaningful, interdisciplinary work to encourage better domestic and international health policy and health care. Started at SIEPR in 2010, the Health Economics Program is intended to provide a home for health economists, funding for conferences, and a supply of new young health policy scholars. As part of this program, FRESH Thinking, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Blue Shield of California Foundation, has allowed and encouraged both conferences and writings that look at alternatives to our current health care dilemmas. A booklet of 12 articles, written by Victor Fuchs, Health Care Reform, was recently published and sent to more than 800 policy makers throughout the country to try to influence good decision making.