Katherine Baicker
| Katherine Baicker | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 23, 1971 |
| Nationality | American |
| Institution | Harvard University |
| Field |
Health economics Public economics |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University (Ph.D., 1998) Yale University (B.A., 1993) |
Katherine Baicker (born May 23, 1971) is an American economist and a professor of health economics in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health.
She received her B.A. in Economics from Yale University in 1993 and her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1998. She has served on the faculty of the UCLA School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles; Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago; the Economics Department at Dartmouth College; and the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. She will become Dean of the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago effective August 15, 2017.
From 2005 to 2007, Baicker served as a Senate-confirmed Member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, where she played a leading role in the development of health care policy. She currently serves on the Editorial Boards of Health Affairs, the Journal of Health Economics, and the Forum for Health Economics and Policy; as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of AcademyHealth; on the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Health Advisers; and as a Commissioner on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. She is a Director at Eli Lilly.
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