Harkness Project Title: Purchaser’s Strategies for Considering Comparative Effectiveness Data in Relation to Value-Based Insurance Design

Co-Mentors: Norman Daniels, Ph.D.; Michael E. Chernew, Ph.D. (Harvard Medical School)

Placement: Harvard School of Public Health

Biography at time of Harkness Fellowship: Harald Schmidt, a 2009–10 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice, is assistant director on the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, where he has worked since 2002. His duties include writing reports, managing working parties and other projects, and representing the council nationally and internationally. His work has focused on quality and efficiency of health care, equity, and access to care in the fields of public health, health care-related research in developing countries, pharmacogenetics, and, currently, personalized health care. Schmidt is also a research associate at LSE (London School of Economics) Health and has published on issues around personal responsibility for health in journals including the British Medical Journal, the Journal of Medical Ethics, and Health Economics, Policy and Law. He previously held a research position at the Centre for Bioethics, University of Münster, and worked at the interface of politics and academic ethics in bioethics units in the German Parliament, the German Ministry of Health, and the European Parliament. He received an M.A. in philosophy in 2001 from the University of Münster and began working towards a Ph.D. at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2007.

Career Activity Since Fellowship

• Research Associate, Center for Health Incentives, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2011

Current Position: Research Associate, Center for Health Incentives, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania (Updated July 2011)

Email: schmidth@exchange.upenn.edu

Harkness-Related Publications

Callier SL and Schmidt H. “Managing Patient Expectations about Deidentification.” American Journal of Bioethics. (In press)

Stock S, Schmidt H, Buscher G, Gerber A et al. "Financial incentives in the Germany Statutory Health Insurance: New findings, new questions.” Health Policy 2010, dpo:10.1016/j.healthpol.2009.12.015

Voigt K and Schmidt H. “Wellness Programs: A Threat to Fairness and Affordable Care.” Health Care Cost Monitor. The Hastings Center: January 13, 2010.

Schmidt H., Gerber A., Stock S., “What can we learn from German health incentive schemes?” BMJ 2008; 338: 725-728.

Schmidt H., Voigt K, Wikler D. “Carrots, Sticks, and Health Care Reform—Problems with Wellness Incentives” NEJM 10.1056/NEJMp0911552.