Karen Eggleston is Center Fellow and Director of the Asia Health Policy Program, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia- Pacifi c Research Center of Stanford University. She earned her PhD in public policy from Harvard University in 1999. She has MA degrees in economics and Asian studies from the University of Hawaii, and earned a BA summa cum laude (valedictorian) from Dartmouth College in 1988. She studied in the PRC for two years and was a Fulbright scholar in the Republic of Korea. A Stanford faculty member teaching in the East Asian studies program, her research focuses on comparative healthcare systems and health reform in Asia, especially in the PRC; government and market roles in the health sector; payment incentives; healthcare productivity; and the economics of the demographic transition.