Grace Park is a doctoral candidate in the Health Care Management and Economics PhD program at The Wharton School. Her research interests are health care economics and corporate finance, with a particular focus on medical innovation. Her recent work applies theories from financial economics and methods from industrial organization to the behavior of pharmaceutical firms and health care organizations. Her papers examine the cost of diversifying pharmaceutical R&D, under-enrollment in clinical trials, and the effect of insurance coverage on access to medical innovation.
Prior to Wharton, Park was a senior economic analyst at Epsilon Economics, an economic consulting firm. She received her BA in economics from the University of Chicago.