Jay Bhattacharya
is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research at Stanford
University School of Medicine. For the past three years, he has been an economist at RAND Corporation
in Santa Monica, CA. While in graduate school, Dr. Bhattacharya co-edited The Health Economics of
Japan, published by Tokyo University Press in 1996, which included several of his papers on the
Japanese health economy. While at RAND between 1998 and 2001, Dr. Bhattacharya taught health economics
and intermediate microeconomics as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the economics department at UCLA.
Dr. Bhattacharya's research interests can best be summarized as the microeconometric analysis of health
and health care for special populations. He has published empirical economics and health services research
papers on the elderly, on adolescents, on HIV patients, on the disabled, on injured workers, and on
managed care experts. Most recently, he has done work on the regulation of viatical settlements market,
which is a secondary life insurance market popular HIV patients, and on summer-winter differences in
nutritional outcomes for poor American families.
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