Overview

Dr. Fangli Geng is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Services, Policy & Practice at Brown University's School of Public Health and an affiliated faculty member at Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Center for Health Decision Science. She holds a Ph.D. in Health Policy and a secondary degree in Data Science from Harvard University. Her research focuses on health policy issues related to aging in the U.S. and China, with an emphasis on designing patient-centered, high-value, and equitable care delivery models that cater to the diverse needs of the elderly and their families.

Dr. Geng has extensive expertise in health economics and advanced quantitative methods, including quasi-experimental design, decision modeling, machine learning, and cost-effectiveness analysis. Her research covers post-acute and long-term care delivery models, payment reforms, organizational structures among hospitals, nursing homes, and home health agencies, as well as quality of care and healthcare staffing issues in nursing homes and home health agencies.

Her contributions to health policy, particularly in post-acute and long-term care, have been published in prominent journals such as JAMA Internal Medicine, Health Affairs, JAMA Health Forum, and BMJ Medicine, and contacted by major media outlets like the Wall Street Journal. Her work has also drawn attention from significant U.S. healthcare bodies, including the Senate Finance Committee, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission and the Government Accountability Office.

She was recently awarded the 2025 National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Early Career Research Award in the Economics of Alzheimer’s Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Dementias. 

She also received the 2025 AcademyHealth Outstanding Dissertation Award.

Brown Affiliations

• Health Services, Policy and Practice