Fellows
New Fellows Arrive at the Bing Center
The Bing Center provides funds for scholars to come to RAND for a summer or a semester to pursue research collaborations with RAND health economists on projects of mutual interest. They are also expected to participate in the health economics seminar series and other health economics events and discussions. In return, the Center provides office space and limited administrative and computing support. Salary and other support may available on an as-needed basis.
Below is a list of our Distinguished Fellows and our Pre- and Post-Doctoral Fellows.
Distinguished Fellows
Antonio Bernardo
Antonio Bernardo (Ph.D., Economics, Stanford, 1994) is a Professor of Economics and Finance, UCLA Anderson School of Management. Professor Bernardo's research interests include corporate finance, information in financial markets, and asset pricing. His papers have been published in leading academic publications, and he has won several awards for outstanding teaching abilities.
Antonio_Bernardo@rand.org
Amitabh Chandra
Amitabh Chandra is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy. He is a Faculty Research Fellow at the IZA Institute in Bonn, Germany, and at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His current research focuses on the effect of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act on labor markets, the role of medical malpractice litigation on the delivery of health care, and the economics of neonatal health and cardiovascular care. His research has been published in several leading journals. He has been a faculty member at Dartmouth and MIT and a consultant to the National Academy of Sciences, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the RAND Corporation. He is the recipient of an Outstanding Teacher Award and is the first-prize recipient of the Upjohn Institute's International Dissertation Research Award.
Amitabh_Chandra@harvard.edu
Martin Gaynor
Martin Gaynor (Ph.D., Economics, Northwestern University, 1983) is the E.J. Barone Professor of Economics and Health Policy in the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management and the Department of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and an Associate Member of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on the economics of health care markets and health care organizations, particularly competition and antitrust in health care markets and provider compensation and incentives in health care organizations. Gaynor has worked with the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Federal Trade Commission, and the Netherlands Competition Authority and Netherlands Healthcare Authority. He is the recipient of the 2007 Victor R. Fuchs Award (for the best paper with the potential to spawn new research in an underdeveloped area of health economics or health policy), the 2005 NIHCM Foundation Health Care Research Award (for best published research on health policy and management), the 1996 Kenneth J. Arrow Award (for best published article worldwide in health economics), and is a recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research.
mgaynor@rand.org
Daniella Meeker
Daniella Meeker (Ph.D. Computation and Neural Systems, Caltech 2005) recently completed a Masters Degree in Health Services at UCLA. Her research interests include the economics of pharmaceutical development, the neuroeconomics of health related decision making, and network diffusion of health behaviors.
dmeeker@rand.org
Tom Philipson
Tomas Philipson (PhD, Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1989) is a Professor in the Harris School of Public Policy and a faculty member in the Department of Economics and the Law School at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on the economic aspects of longevity, food and drug issues, and economic epidemiology. Philipson served in the Bush Administration as Senior Economic Advisor to the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) during 2003/04 and as Senior Economic Advisor to the administrator of The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2004/05. Philipson is the recipient of numerous international and national research awards, including the Kenneth Arrow Award of the International Health Economics Association (for best paper in the field of health economics)in 2000 and again in 2006. In addition, in 2003 he was awarded the Distinguished Economic Research Award by the Milken Institute in 2003 (for best paper in any field of economics).
Tomas_Philipson@rand.org
Pre- and Post-Doctoral Fellows
Anupam Jena
Anupam Jena (PhD Economics, University of Chicago, 2006) is currently completing his medical training in the MD/PhD program at the University of Chicago. His current research uses the presence of twins as a natural experiment to study the effect of children on divorce. He has co-authored several papers on the economic implications of cost-effectiveness analysis for innovation and growth in medical markets and on the economics of exercise.
Bapu_Jena@rand.org
Eric Sun
Eric Sun is a MD/PhD student at the University of Chicago who recently completed in PhD in business economics from the Graduate School of Business. His current research interests include medical malpractice, drug safety regulation, and physicians prescribing behaviors.
Eric_Sun@rand.org
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