Research Seminar with Zack Cooper, PhD
Does it Matter for Your Health if Your Hospital Is Private Equity Owned?
Open to Penn Affiliates
Please note: Registration for this event is required. In-person attendance is strongly encouraged, although virtual access will be provided for all registrants.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Health Care Management/HCMG2500/HCMG8500/BIOE5750: American Health Care and the Future of the American Health Care System
Speaker
Zack Cooper, PhD
Associate Professor, Public Health; Associate Professor, Economics; Associate Professor, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale School of Public Health
Zack Cooper, PhD is an Associate Professor of Public Health and Associate Professor of Economics at Yale University. He also serves as Director of Health Policy at Yale’s Tobin Center for Economic Policy. Professor Cooper is a health economist whose work is focused on producing data-driven scholarship that can inform public policy. In his academic work, he has analyzed the impact of competition in hospital and insurance markets, studied the influence of price transparency on consumer behavior, investigated the causes of surprise out-of-network bills, and examined the influence of electoral politics on health care spending growth. Cooper has published his research in leading economics and medical journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the New England Journal of Medicine. He has also presented his research at The White House, the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Department of Health and Human Services.