Faculty

Current Position

Interim Director and Associate Professor, Center of Aging, Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI

Office

1960 East-West Road, Biomed D104G, Honolulu, HI 9682

Academic Degrees

ScD, Health Systems and Health Economics, Department of Global Health & Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA

Experience

Research Scientist (Research Fellow), Center for Global Development, Washington, DC
Chief Health Economist and Faculty Affiliate, Pacific Health Informatics and Data Center, Telecommunications and Social Informatics Program, Social Science Research Institute, College of Social Sciences, University of HAwai’I at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
Research and Teaching Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA(Harvard University, Program for Health Care Financing, 2008-11; Harvard Global Equity Initiative,2007-08; Harvard Initiative for Global Health, 2007; Harvard China Health Reform Study, 2006)

Specialty

Health economics

Research Interests

Health systems, policy and quantitative research methods

Selected Publication

1. Bloom DE, Fan VY, Sevilla JP. The broad socio-economic benefits of vaccination. Science Translational Medicine. 2018; 10, eaaj2345.
2. Fan VY*, Jamison DT, Summers LH. Pandemic risk: how large are the expected losses? Bull World Health Organ. 2018 Feb 1;96(2):129-134. doi: 10.2471/BLT.17.199588.
3. Fan VY, Savedoff WD. The health financing transition: a conceptual framework and empirical evidence. Social Science and Medicine 2014; 105: 112–121.
4. Anand S, Fan VY. The Health Workforce of India. Geneva: World Health Organization, June 2016. ISBN: 978-92-4-151052-3. 104 pp.