Laurence Baker, PhD

Health Economist and Chair, Dept. of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine

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Laurence Baker is a health economist and chair of the Department of Health Research and Policy at the Stanford University School of Medicine. A leading health economist, Baker has served as the department’s chief of health services research since 2001. He is also a fellow at Stanford’s Center for Health Policy / Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, a senior fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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