Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice

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Olivier J. Wouters, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Brown University’s School of Public Health (Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice) and a visiting faculty member at Harvard Medical School (Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics). He was previously an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy at the London School of Economics.

His research focuses on pharmaceutical economics and policy, particularly issues related to drug pricing and access to medicines in high- and middle-income countries. His work has been published in leading journals, including Health Affairs, JAMA, The Lancet, and NEJM. In 2025, he received the Publication-of-the-Year Award from AcademyHealth for his research on Medicare drug price negotiations.

Dr. Wouters holds a Ph.D. in Health Policy and an M.Sc. in Health Economics, both from the London School of Economics.

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