Shorenstein APARC
Stanford University
Encina Hall E301
Stanford, CA 94305-6055

karene@stanford.edu
(650) 723-9072 (voice)
(650) 723-6530 (fax)

Expertise
health policy in China; comparative health systems in East Asia; healthcare payment incentives and ownership

Dr. Karen Eggleston joined the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center in the summer of 2007 to lead the center's Asian Health Policy Program. Her research focuses on comparative healthcare systems during economic development and transition from central planning to market-based economies; payment incentives and their impact on healthcare insurer and provider behavior; private sector providers and the market structure of healthcare; healthcare productivity; chronic disease management; and incentives surrounding health behaviors such as the spread of tuberculosis and antimicrobial resistance.

Eggleston earned her PhD in public policy from Harvard University in 1999. She has an MA in economics and another in Asian studies from the University of Hawaii (August 1995 and May 1992, respectively.) Dr. Eggleson studied in China for two years and was a Fulbright scholar in Korea. She is also a research associate at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Dr. Eggleson has been a research associate at the China Academy of Health Policy (CAHP) at Peking University, Beijing, China since 2003 and in the summer of 2004 she was a consultant to the World Bank on their project on health service delivery in rural China.