Private Equity in Health Care: Promise, Peril, and the Quest for Positive Impact

Rocco Friebel, Ph.D.
U.K. Harkness Fellow and Associate Professor of Health Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science 
Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Drug Prices and Drug Value

Peter Neumann, Ph.D.
Director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health (CEVR) at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center, and Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Effects of Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans on care for older adults: evidence from default enrollment

Eric Roberts, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of General Internal Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Why Nothing Works: Health Care Edition

Marc Dunkelman, Ph.D.
Fellow at the Watson School for International and Public Affairs, Brown University
Wednesday, February 2, 2026

The Impact of the Medicare Advantage Program on Market Level Medicare Spending

Michael Chernew, Ph.D.
Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy and the Director of the Healthcare Markets and Regulation (HMR) Lab, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School 
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Value-Based Insurance Design:  Aligning Patient and Provider Incentives to Increase Use of High-value Care, Enhance Equity, and Eliminate Low-Value Services

Mark Fendrick, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine in the School of Medicine and a Professor of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
Wednesday, April 9, 2025

How will Medicare Advantage's Performance Change as it Grows?

Matthew Fiedler, Ph.D.
Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Medicare Spending After People Disenroll from Medicare Advantage

Jeannie Fuglesten Biniek, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Program on Medicare Policy, KFF
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Navigating Health Policy in 2025: Implications for the 119th Congress and Next Administration

Jared Perkins, MPA
Director of Health Policy Strategy, Brown University
  Watch "Navigating Health Policy in 2025"

Increases in Inpatient Hospital Upcoding Between 2011 and 2019

Daniel J. Crespin, PhD, MSPH 
Associate Policy Researcher, RAND
Watch "Increases in Inpatient Hospital Upcoding"

Vertical Consolidation and the Transformation of Medicare

Hayden Rooke-Ley, JD
Post JD Fellow, CAHPR, Brown University
 Watch "Vertical Consolidation and the Transformation of Medicare"

Impacts of Physician Vertical Integration on Risk Score Growth

David J. Meyers, PhD
Associate Director, CAHPR & Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University
 

Increases in Professional Fees in Private Equity Owned vs Health System-Affiliated Physician Practices

Yashaswini Singh, PhD
Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice, Brown University

Watch "Increases in Professional Fees"

Health Care Reform: ACA-Biden vs. Trump vs. Single Payer

Oliver T Fein, M.D.
Professor Emeritus of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
Watch "Health Care Reform"

Don't Feed the Bugs: Reproducibilty for Health Policy Research

Alyssa Bilinsky, PhD
Peterson Family Assistant Professor of Health Policy
Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice and Biostatistics, Brown University
Access the "Don't Feed the Bugs" presentation

Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets? Evidence from Health Insurance Auto-Enrollment

Mark Shephard, PhD
Associate Professor, Harvard Kennedy School of Government & Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Watch "Do Ordeals Work for Selection Markets"

Quality Disclosure, Demand, and Congestion: Evidence from Physician Ratings

Ben Chartock, PhD
Assistant Professor, Economics at Bentley University

Watch "Quality Disclosure, Demand, and Congestion"

Changes in Enrollee Cost-Sharing and Care Utilization After Two Years of Oregon's Hospital Payment Cap

Roslyn (Roz) Murray, MPP (current PhD candidate at the University of Michigan School of Public Health)
Monday, Oct 2, 2023