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The health care industry changes quickly, and in complex ways. Health care is affected by rapid shifts in technology, economics, ethics, finance, policy, and management. For more than three decades, USC Price faculty have kept pace — leading the field in research on all aspects of our health care system. Faculty examine hospital administration, insurance design, Medicare and allied health partnerships, service delivery, and health economics, as well as analyze the global consequences of policy affecting pharmaceutical and medical device innovation.

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	Name	Position	Expertise
	Emma Aguila	Associate Professor	Economics of aging, health economics, and applied econometrics
	Wändi Bruine de Bruin	Director, Behavioral Science and Policy Initiative at the Schaeffer Institute for Public Policy & Government Service Provost Professor of Public Policy, Psychology, and Behavioral Science Hear my name	Psychology of risk perception and communication Health behavior and patient decision making Public perceptions of climate change and sustainability Economic expectations and financial decision making Behavior change interventions Social science of science communication Age differences in decision making and well-being
	Alice Chen	Associate Professor Vice Dean for Research	Health economics, labor economics, applied microeconomics
	Phil Dalton	Professor of Practice of Health Policy and Management	Health policy and management, community health needs, national health care delivery, strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions
	Jason Doctor	Professor Norman Topping National Medical Enterprise Chair in Medicine Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs Co-Director, Behavioral Sciences Program, USC Schaeffer Center	Physician behavior and psychology, behavioral economics and health, patient choice and decision making, health policy and implementation, treatment preferences, prescriptions, health informatics
	Paul B. Ginsburg	Professor of the Practice of Health Policy and Management Senior Fellow, USC Schaeffer Center	Health policy, health care financing and delivery, health care markets
	Dana Goldman	University Professor of Public Policy, Pharmacy, and Economics Leonard D. Schaeffer Director of the USC Schaeffer Institute for Public Policy & Government Service	Health economics and finance, health policy, the role of prevention in healthcare, healthcare reform, pharmaceutical regulation and innovation, precision medicine, value of delayed aging
	Elizabeth Graddy	Professor Jeffrey J. Miller Chair in Government, Business, and the Economy	Institutional economics, governance, nonprofit organizations,industry structure
	Howard Greenwald	Professor	Health service delivery, organizational behavior, survey design
	Genevieve Kanter	Associate Professor	Health economics, health policy, FDA, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, conflicts of interest, physician-industry relationships, medical ethics
	Darius Lakdawalla	Professor of Pharmaceutical Economics and Public Policy Quintiles Chair in Pharmaceutical and Regulatory Innovation; Director of Research, Schaeffer Center	Health economics and health policy, the economics of risks to health, value and determinants of medical innovation, the economics of health insurance markets, industrial organization of healthcare markets
	LaVonna B. Lewis	Professor (Teaching) Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion	American politics, public policy (most notably health policy), interest groups, and federal programs
	T.J. McCarthy	Associate Professor (Teaching)	Labor economics, applied econometrics, economics of education, health economics, public economics
	Glenn Melnick	Professor Blue Cross of California Chair in Health Care Finance	Health economics, health finance, health care systems, managed care
	Karen Mulligan	Assistant Professor (Research)	Health economics, applied microeconometrics, labor economics
	Rosalie Pacula	Professor Elizabeth Garrett Endowed Chair in Health Policy, Economics, and Law Chair, Health Policy and Management Department	Economics of addiction, market for addictive goods, addiction policy, delivery and financing of addiction treatment, cannabis and opioid policy
	John A. Romley	Associate Professor of Public Policy and Pharmaceutical & Health Economics Director, PhD Programs	Hospital industry, Health-care productivity / efficiency, Environmental health disparities
	Neeraj Sood	Professor	Infectious diseases, health care costs, global health, economic epidemiology, health insurance markets and benefits design, medical innovation and regulatory policy, Medicare and aging
	Julie M. Zissimopoulos	Professor Co-Director, Aging and Cognition Program, USC Schaeffer Center	Economics of aging, economics of the family, labor economics, health economics