Yiqun Chen graduated with Bachelor’s degree in medicine and in economics from Peking University, China, in 2012. As an undergraduate, Yiqun developed her interests in health economics and began to participate in research in this field. Upon graduation, Yiqun entered the MA program in Economics program at Duke University.  She is interested in supply and demand of health care in both U.S. and China.

Jack Ching is a Health Policy Ph.D. student in the Decision Sciences track, with research interests in health systems design and implementation. Prior to joining Stanford in 2016, he worked for three years as a business consultant with The Permanente Medical Group, focusing on operational and quality improvement, as well as large-scale population health programs. He holds a Bachelor’s in Operations Research and Financial Engineering from Princeton University.

Kyueun Lee Kyueun is a PhD candidate in the Department of Health Research and Policy at Stanford University. She received her BS in Life Science from Pohang University of Science Technology, South Korea in 2012. During her training in basic science, she participated in a medical research to evaluate the efficacy of anti-cancer drug targeting ovarian cancer. After graduation, she discovered her interest in health policy and studied health service and research at the University of Minnesota during her MS degree.

Catherine Lei is a doctoral candidate at the Stanford University School of Medicine’s Department of Health Research and Policy. She graduated from Princeton University in 2015 with a concentration in Economics and a certificate in Finance. Her thesis analyzed the effect of financial incentives on employer-sponsored insurance (ESI), examining the ways in which ESI offer and take-up rates for both small and large firms changed during the temporary lifting of the employer mandate in a Massachusetts case study.

Catherine studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) while abroad at Oxford University. At Oxford, she conducted research on the comparative health economic situation of the United States and the United Kingdom, exploring the relationship between differing provisions of the national health systems and seven negative health outcomes—heart disease, heart failure, heart attack, stroke, diabetes, hypertension, and cancer—associated with obesity.

Her current research interests focus on the industrial organization of health care, the effects of individual/insurer/provider behavior on insurance costs and outcomes, and the impact of regulation on health insurance markets.

Theresa (Tess) Ryckman is a Health Policy PhD student concentrating on decision sciences. During her time at Stanford, she hopes to focus on questions related to the allocation of scarce resources in low- and middle-income settings, using cost-effectiveness analysis and modeling tools. She is particularly interested in infectious diseases and malnutrition, but also hopes to explore topics that are becoming more and more important in the field of global health but which sometimes receive less focus, such as non-communicable disease and road traffic accidents. Tess comes to Stanford from four years at the Results for Development Institute (R4D), where she was a Program Officer. At R4D, Tess worked on projects with major multilateral and bilateral donors and country governments (in South Africa, India, and Papua New Guinea) on HIV, immunization, malaria, and nutrition financing, resource allocation, and policy analysis. Before joining R4D, Tess received her Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Yale University.

Tara Templin  is a first year PhD student specializing in Health Economics.  Tara obtained her BA in Economics and Mathematics from Columbia University and her MS in Statistics from Stanford University.  Prior to Stanford, Tara was a research fellow at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, working on health expenditure forecasts, tracking development assistance for health, and studying the effects of the epidemiological and demographic transitions in low- and middle-income countries.  Her other previous research experience includes studying results-based financing mechanisms at the Center for Global Development and portfolio allocation modalities for the Global Fund.  She hopes to apply her background to work studying the allocation and effectiveness of government expenditure and development assistance for health, as well as demand and supply side barriers to health care.