Katherine Baicker, Ph.D.
Dean Harris School of Public Policy, The University of Chicago
Katherine Baicker is the dean and the Emmett Dedmon professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Social Insurance, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Baicker serves on the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisers and as a director of Eli Lilly and HMS. She is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Institute for Health Care Management, a trustee of NORC, and a trustee of the Mayo Clinic.
Baicker’s research focuses on the effectiveness of public and private health insurance, including the effect of reforms on the distribution and quality of care. She received her B.A. in economics from Yale and her Ph.D. in economics from Harvard.