Health Economics Resource Center
VA Palo Alto Health Care System
795 Willow Road, 152 MPD
Menlo Park, CA 94025

wyu2@stanford.edu
(650) 493-5000 x23157 (voice)
(650) 617-2639 (fax)

Research Interests
healthcare reform in China; elderly patients' use of healthcare resources; cost-effectiveness of healthcare inventions; risk adjustment; determinants of healthcare costs; health care and financing under different institutional structures and cultural backgrounds

Wei Yu is a professor of public economics and administration at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, director of center for health policy and administration. Before he returned to China, he was a CHP/PCOR fellow and also a health economist at VA Palo Alto Health System.  He was a key investigator for the China-U.S. Health and Aging Research Training Program at CHP/PCOR.  At VA Health Economic Resource Center, he conducted studies for national VA healthcare research programs and served as a member of several scientific committees for VA’s health services research program. Before joined VA and Stanford, he was an assistant professor at Boston University medical school.

His current research focuses on China’s health system reform including financing policy in medical institutions, health disparity, and performance evaluation. He has more than 15 years of research experience in the United States with expertise in cost-effectiveness analysis, risk adjustment, variation in healthcare utilization, end-of-life care, Medicare prospective payment system, cost determination. He serves as a reviewer for academic journals and for grant application at national research programs.

He received a BS from East China University and an MA and PhD from Clemson University. He received fellowship at the National Institute on Aging and completed a post-doctoral training in health economics and aging at Boston University.

Other affiliations
Chinese Economist Society