JING LI, PhD

I am Associate Professor of Health Economics and Associate Director of the Comparative Health Outcomes, Policy and Economics (CHOICE) Institute in the Department of Pharmacy at University of Washington School of Pharmacy.

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I study preferences, incentives and other economic factors affecting individual decision-making, for both providers and patients, and the impact of policies and treatments in improving patient outcomes and healthcare market efficiency. Methodologically, I am interested in innovative application of advanced experimental and econometric methods to addressing understudied questions in health economics and policy.

From the provider side, my work has quantified social preferences (altruism) of U.S. medical professionals and linked them to a variety of meaningful real-world medical practice decisions. 

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From the patient side, I focus on the aging population for whom decision-making can be challenging due to cognitive impairment and complex due to high health and financial stakes. Relatedly, I study policies, healthcare cost and patient outcomes in U.S. Medicare.

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I have received funding support as PI from sources including the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (NIH/NIA), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Weill Cornell Medicine, Russell Sage Foundation, and Cornell Center for Social Sciences. My first-authored publications have appeared in general science, economic, medical and health policy journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Health Affairs, and JAMA Neurology. 

I am an Associate Editor for npj Health Systems and Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. I am also on the Executive Team of the global Behavioral Experiments in Health Network. 

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I received a PhD in Health Policy (Economics Track) and MA in Economics from University of California, Berkeley, MA in International Comparative Education from Stanford University, and BA in Economics and English from Peking University, China. 

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