Professor Winnie Yip is professor of Global Health Policy and Economics in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and also director of the school-wide Harvard China Health Partnership. Her research focuses on the design, implementation, evaluation, and scale-up of health system interventions, for improving affordable and equitable access to and the efficiency and quality of health care delivery, especially for the poor. Her approach typically involves large-scale social experimentation of health system interventions that integrate the transformation of financing, incentives, organization, management, and technology. With a network of Chinese universities, Professor Yip’s ongoing research projects cover millions of people in the low-income provinces in China.

In addition to China, Yip directs major research projects to assess the Indian health system’s performances and design and evaluate innovations in health system interventions for improvements. She has also studied and advised health care reforms in the wider Asia region, including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Vietnam, and has extensive experience in executive training courses for senior health policymakers.

Professor Yip was previously a professor of Health Policy and Economics at the University of Oxford. She is president-elect of the International Health Economics Association and is a senior editor of Social Science and Medicine (Elsevier), and associate editor of Health Economics (Wiley) and Health Systems & Reform (Taylor & Francis). Professor Yip earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.