FELLOWSHIPS
About Our Fellowships
Our fellowships program fosters a pipeline of passionate and energetic new researchers who are entering the field at the dissertation and postdoctoral stages. In addition to advancing their work, ECCHC fellowships provide a stepping stone for early-career scholars to position themselves to strengthen their work and pursue their career goals.
The fellowships program offers supplemental funding to pre- and post-doctoral students, as well as early career scholars, to conduct health economics research and encourage original inquiry that will advance our understanding of health and health care markets and their relationship to the overall economy. In addition to mentorship from Casey B. Mulligan and Tomas J. Philipson, each fellow has the opportunity to work with a large network of other fellows and economics scholars at the University of Chicago.
Previous Fellowship Award Recipients
Moiz Bhai | Recipient 2024-2025
Associate Professor of Economics at University of Arkansas at Little Rock and Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management (by courtesy) at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Joy Dada | Recipient 2023-2024
Predoctoral Researcher, the Development Innovation Lab at the University of Chicago
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship funded research project:
“The Impact of the Nurse Licensure Compact on Labor Mobility Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic“
Vitor Melo | Recipient 2023-2024
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, Clemson University
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship funded research project:
“Certificate-of-Need Laws and Rural Healthcare Access: A Casual Analysis“
Honglin Li | Recipient 2023-2024
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship funded research project:
“Choice Frictions and Information Provision in Health Insurance Marketplaces”
Vitor Melo | Recipient 2021-2022
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, Clemson University
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship funded research project:
“Understanding Nonprofit and Government Ownership: Evidence from Nursing Homes in the COVID-19 Pandemic”*
(*Forthcoming in the Journal of Law and Economics)
Pyoungsik Kim | Recipient 2021-2022
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship funded research project:
“Labor Market Search, Illness, and the Value of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance”
Anran Li | Recipient 2022-2023
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, Northwestern University
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship funded research project:
Priya Shanmugam | Recipient 2017-2018
Ph.D., Harvard University
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship funded research project:
“Essays on Clinical Decision-Making”
Anh Nguyen | Recipient 2017-2018
Ph.D., Columbia University
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship funded research project:
Mariano Irace | Recipient 2017-2018
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship funded research project:
“Patient Loyalty in Hospital Choice: Evidence from New York”
Coleman Drake| Recipient 2017-2018
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship funded research project:
Vilsa Curto | Recipient 2017-2018
Ph.D., Stanford University
Post-Doctoral Fellowship funded research project:
“Pricing Regulations in Individual Health Insurance: Evidence from Medigap”
Sunita Desai | Recipient 2017-2018
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Post-Doctoral Fellowship funded research project:
Joshua Gottlieb | Recipient 2017-2018
Ph.D., Harvard University
Post-Doctoral Fellowship funded research project:
“The Economics of Administrative Costs in Health Care”
Molly Schnell | Recipient 2017-2018
Ph.D., Princeton University
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship funded research project:
Physician Behavior in the Presence of a Secondary Market: The Case of Prescription Opioids