Hao Yu

Hao Yu, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Insurance Research (HPI) at the Department of Population Medicine. He has more than 20 years of experience in studying health care financing and delivery reforms in both the US and China, with an overarching goal of informing policies to promote health equity. His research has focused on how health care financing and delivery reforms affect health care and health outcomes for vulnerable populations, such as children with special health care needs, people with mental disorders, and residents of medically underserved areas. He has led 10 R01 projects, with four of them ongoing, examining insurance mandates for children with autism, impacts of health workforce expansion policies, and effects of telehealth policies. He has published in top medical and health policy journals, such as the New England Journal of Medicine, British Medical Journal, and Health Affairs. Before joining Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Dr. Yu served as a faculty member at RAND Graduate School in the US and Shanghai Medical University in China.