Fierlbeck, Katherine

Health care is a policy area undergoing rapid, profound, and costly metamorphoses; yet forms of health care governance rarely evolve in step with these changes. Katherine Fierlbeck examines innovative forms of governance emerging from disciplines ranging from public administration to epidemiology, and investigates how well they can be applied to discrete fields of health care. She also focuses on the development of inter-governmental relationships in addressing specific areas of policy development (such as health technology assessment and pharmaceutical purchasing).

Research Interests: Health policy; Governance; Federalism; Multi-level governance