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, 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.
Meet the Harkness Fellows
Current Harkness Fellows
2022–23 French Harkness Fellow; Senior Health Economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Health Division
2022–23 U.K. Harkness Fellow; General Practitioner and Senior Policy Fellow, The Health Foundation
2022–23 U.K. Harkness Fellow; Clinical Innovation Manager at NHS England and NHS Improvement
2022–23 Dutch Harkness Fellow; Postdoctoral Researcher in Integrated Health Policy Analysis, Amsterdam UMC
2022–23 New Zealand Harkness Fellow; General Practitioner and Principal Clinical Advisor, Ministry of Health New Zealand
2022–23 U.K. Harkness Fellow; Professor of Human Resource Management, Cardiff University
2022–23 Australian Harkness Fellow; Director of Analytics at the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority
2022–23 French Harkness Fellow; Senior Health Economist at the Direction for Research, Studies, Evaluation, and Statistics (DREES) at the Ministry of Health in France
2022–23 U.K. Harkness Fellow; Clinical Research Fellow at the National Addiction Centre, King’s College London (KCL); Practicing Addiction Psychiatrist at the South London and the Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
2022–23 Norwegian Harkness/Research Council of Norway Fellow; Researcher at the Center for Care Research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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2005-06 Canadian Harkness Associate Associate Professor Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics McMaster University
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
(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
2017-18 Harkness Fellow Senior Policy Advisor to the Chief Executive
2021–22 U.K. Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice; Specialty Registrar in Public Health, Health Education England
(Australia) Specialist Intensive Care Physician Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
2020–21 Canadian Harkness/CFHI Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice Breast Surgical Oncologist, Ottawa Hospital Professor of Surgery, University of Ottawa Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
2021–22 French Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice; Professor of Economics, Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC); Director of ERUDITE (Équipe de recherche sur l’utilisation des données individuelles en lien avec la théorie économique) Research Unit;
2003-04 Harkness Fellow Senior lecturer in psychiatry Director Flinders Human Behaviour and Health Research Unit Flinders University