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Irene Papanicolas, PhD, is Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health, where she serves as Director of the Center for Health System Sustainability.
Her research focuses on health system performance, with particular expertise in international comparisons of health care spending, financing, delivery, and outcomes. Her work examines why health systems differ in their use of resources and the value they achieve from health care spending, as well as how health and social policies shape population health and inequalities. She leads and collaborates on research comparing health systems across the United States and other high-income countries, with a particular interest in developing methods and data infrastructure that enable meaningful comparisons across countries and health care systems.
Prior to joining Brown, Papanicolas was Associate Professor of Health Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science.. Her professional activities span academic research, policy engagement, and international collaboration. She is an editor of Health Policy and serves on the editorial boards of several health policy and health services research journals. She has advised and collaborated with national governments and international organizations on health system performance and comparative health policy. Irene holds a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an MSc in Comparative Social Policy from the University of Oxofrd, and an undergraduate degree from University College London.
Affiliations
Provost’s Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University School of Public Health
Director, Center for Health System Sustainability (CHeSS), Brown University
Expertise
Performance Measurement, Financing, International Comparisons