Assoc. Prof. David Chan, Ph.D.

Health Care Outcomes

Drawing on labor and organizational economics, David Chan is interested in studying how information and the workforce impact decision-making and outcomes in health care. His work draws on labor economics and organizational economics in the setting of health care. Mr. Chan has received several awards for his research, including the NIH Director’s Early Independence Award, the 2023 American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon) Medal (awarded to an early-career economist who has made the most significant contributions to health economics), and the 2024 National Institute of Health Care Management (NIHCM) Research Award. His research has been cited by US Office of Management and Budget, the US Congressional Budget Office, and members of Congress.

While at CES, Mr. Chan looks forward to connecting with researchers in applied microeconomics, including labor and organizational economics.

David Chan, is the Mark and Stephanie Robinson Chancellor’s Chair and faculty director for Robinson Life Science, Business, and Entrepreneurship Program at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also an investigator at the Department of Veterans Affairs, co-director of the VA Center for Policy Evaluation, and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Before coming to Berkeley, Mr. Chan was an associate professor of Health Policy at Stanford University. He received master’s degrees in policy and economics from the London School of Economics and Oxford University, where he studied as a Marshall scholar. He holds a medical degree from UCLA and a PhD in economics from MIT. He trained in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and was an instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is currently a hospitalist at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Palo Alto.