The Program in Health Care Financing seeks to develop a systematic framework for the evaluation of health systems, as well as perform interdisciplinary research focusing on the relationship between economic development and health. The Program has a small core staff and operates through collaborations with investigators elsewhere at Harvard and at other sites throughout the world.

The Director of the Program is William C. Hsiao, a researcher and the K.T. Li Professor of Economics at the school.

Winnie Chi-Man Yip is an associate Professor who directs an inter-disciplinary study to examine the dynamic social, cultural, psychological and economic determinants of health and well-being in rural China.

Professor Hsiao appeared in the Frontline documentary "Sick Around the World", discussing Taiwan's health system reform.

Our paper on China's most recent wave of health reforms was recently published in Health Affairs.

Our Rural Mutual Health Care project was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal.