About Me
Michael Nguyen-Mason is a PhD candidate in Health Policy and Economics at Harvard. Before Harvard Michael received his BA at UC Berkeley where he worked as an RA studying the role of competition in health insurance markets. Since coming to Harvard his interests have turned to the intersection of innovation, entrepreneurship, and health equity with a particular interest in the early stage of investment in biotech innovation. Michael is funded by the NSF graduate student fellowship and is advised by Leila Agha (Chair), Luca Maini, and Josh Lerner
Email: mnguyenmason@g.harvard.edu
- Determinants of medical innovation
- Scientific entrepeneurship
- Health equity
- Innovation policy
Ph.D. in Health Policy (Economics)
Harvard University
B.A. in Economics and Cognitive Science
University of California, Berkeley
My research asks how the microeconomic incentives created by scientific uncertainty and public policy shape the direction of medical innovation: who innovates, what is innovated, and who benefits. My work uses econometric methods to analyze large, granular datasets and focuses on (i) the barriers and boons to scientific entrepreneurship and (ii) the incentives that shape the geographic and demographic distribution of medical innovation.
More broadly, I am interested in questions at the intersection of innovation, policy, and medicine.
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ASHE 2025 Diversity scholarship
NBER health economics visiting scholar
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Essays on the economics of directed medical innovation
