Scott Lee, MD, PhD, MPA, MPhil, assistant professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Newswise Scott Lee, MD, PhD, MPA, MPhil, assistant professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has received the Kenneth J. Arrow Award for health economics research given by the International Health Economics Association.
American Economic Review that covered a lengthy study about the recruitment of health practitioners in Zambia and its relationship to significant improvement in measured health outcomes.
The award is the highest given annually for health economics research, and “needless to say, I’m hugely honored,” Lee said.
According to Lee, this is the first study to test the impact of incentives on who enters the health workforce, and how this effect on recruitment influences performance.