Jessica Greene, Ph.D., a 2010-11 Australian-American Health Policy Fellow, is associate professor and director of the Master of Public Administration Program in the Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management at the University of Oregon. Her research focuses on the role individuals and clinicians play in improving health and health care quality. In one stream of this work, she evaluates strategies intended spark informed decision making, like consumer directed health plans and financial incentives. In another stream of research, she examines ways to support individuals to make informed choices and become activated health consumers. Greene holds a Ph.D. from the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University and an M.P.H. from Columbia University.

Project: Paying clinicians to provide high quality care is a strategy that has increased worldwide in recent years, yet there is limited and inconsistent evidence on its effectiveness. The project will examine Australia’s pay-for-performance program for general practitioners. In addition to examining how successful the program has been overall, I will investigate what types of providers have been most and least responsive to the incentives, identify what steps providers have taken to improve the quality of care, and assess whether the program has narrowed or widened socioeconomic disparities in health care in Australia.

Email: jessicag@uoregon.edu

Publications since Fellowship

J.H. Hibbard, J. Greene, S. Sofaer, K Firminger, J. Hirsh. "An Experiment Shows That A Well-Designed Report On Costs and Quality Can Help Consumers Choose High-Value Health Care." Health Affairs. 2012. 

J. Greene and J. H. Hibbard, "Why Does Patient Activation Matter? An Examination of the Relationships Between Patient Activation and Health-Related Outcomes," Journal of General Internal Medicine, published online Nov. 30, 2011.