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Meet the Harkness Fellows

Harkness fellows sit in chairs — 2024–25 Harkness Fellows at Whitman-Walker’s Max Robinson Center during the Washington, D.C., Health Policy Seminar

2024–25 Harkness Fellows at Whitman-Walker’s Max Robinson Center during the Washington, D.C., Health Policy Seminar

The Commonwealth Fund’s Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice provide a unique opportunity for midcareer health services researchers and practitioners from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, and the United Kingdom to spend up to 12 months in the United States, conducting original research and working with leading U.S. health policy experts.

Profiles for the 2025–26 Harkness Fellows are featured here, and our Senior Fellows (alumni) are searchable below.

Chukwuebuka Anyaegbuna

2025–26 U.K. Harkness Fellow; Technical Product Manager, Scarlet

Chan Chi Ling

2025–26 Singaporean Harkness Fellow; Founder and CEO, Equitech Collective

Caroline Figueroa

2025–26 Dutch Harkness Fellow; Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)

Rocco Friebel

2025–26 U.K. Harkness Fellow; Associate Professor, Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); Deputy Director, LSE Health; Director, Global Surgery Policy Unit (partnership between LSE and the Royal College of Surgeons of England)

Lucinda Hiam

2025–26 U.K. Harkness Fellow; Clarendon Scholar and DPhil Candidate, University of Oxford

Reza Jarral

2025–26 New Zealand Harkness Fellow; Chief Medical Officer, CareHQ; Clinical Director for Health Equity and Strategic Development, ProCare; Affiliated Scholar, Stanford Center for Digital Health; Clinical Entrepreneur in-Residence, Bridgewest Ventures

Florence Jusot

2025–26 French Harkness Fellow; Professor of Economics, Paris-Dauphine University; Research Fellow, Dauphine Economics Laboratory — Laboratory for the Economics and Management of Health Organisations (LEDA); Associate Researcher, Institute for Research and Information in Health Economics

Kate Mulligan

2025–26 Canadian Harkness Fellow; Founder and Scientific Director, Canadian Institute for Social Prescribing; Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Henning Øien

2025–26 Norwegian Harkness Fellow; Researcher, Norwegian Institute of Public Health; Associate Professor, Department of Health Management and Health Economics, University of Oslo

William Roberts

2025–26 U.K. Harkness Fellow; Chief Operating Officer, Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

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Julia Abelson

2005-06 Canadian Harkness Associate Associate Professor Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics McMaster University

Evan Adams

2024–25 Canadian Harkness Fellow ; Acting Associate Dean – Indigenous Health, Simon Fraser University; Deputy Chief Medical Officer, First Nations Health Authority; Clinical Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia

Ted Adams

2014–15 Harkness Fellow Senior Registrar NHS Health Education North West (Mersey)

Rachael Addicott

(United Kingdom) Senior Policy Research Fellow The King's Fund

Sarah Aitken

2024–25 Australian Harkness Fellow ; Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Director of Academic Surgery, Sydney Local Health District, NSW Health; Associate Professor and Head of Surgery, University of Sydney; Co-Chair, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

Mo Akindolie

2024–25 U.K. Harkness Fellow ; Consultant Paediatrician, Clinical Lead for Ambulatory Paediatrics, King's College Hospital; Assistant Registrar – Leadership, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

Vidhya Alakeson

2006-07 Harkness Fellow Lead Analyst, Mental Health Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Peter Alders

(The Netherlands) Harkness/Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Sport Fellow Acting Head of the Department of Social Support Act Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Sport