KATHERINE BAICKER, PhD
Provost of the University of Chicago and the Emmett Dedmon Professor,
University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18
12:15 - 1:45PM ET
Baicker is 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’s research focuses on the effectiveness of public and private health insurance and the effects of health system reforms. She is the Principal Investigator of multiple large-scale NIH-funded research programs and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research appears in leading academic journals across medicine, economics, and health policy.
Baicker serves as a Director of Eli Lilly, where she chairs the Ethics and Compliance Committee; and as a Trustee of the Mayo Clinic, where she chairs the Digital Solutions Committee.
She is on the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisers and is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Institute for Health Care Management. Through her role as Provost, she is a Trustee of Argonne National Laboratory, the Marine Biological Laboratory, NORC, and the University of Chicago Medical Center.
