Kristen Campbell is a PhD student in Wharton’s Health Care Management and Economics department. She works on health care management and economics research that leverages administrative, clinical, and experimental data to transform mental health and addiction policy and practice. Prior to joining Wharton, she was a senior clinical research coordinator in the Penn Center for Mental Health, where she helped lead a large randomized trial comparing different models of primary care-based addiction treatment. Previously, she worked for an NGO in the southern Philippines with a focus on empowering indigenous communities through health, education, research, and community development, held roles in two public health departments, and spent four years in actuarial and medical economics positions at the large health insurer Aetna. Campbell holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Duke University and a Master of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley. She is also passionate about global health, health equity, and social determinants of health.

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Kristen Campbell
- PhD Candidate, Health Care Management and Policy, Wharton School
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