Staller Lecture hosts Dartmouth economist Heidi Williams

The Department of Economics will bring economist Heidi Williams to campus for a Sept. 5 talk, "Innovation and Productivity Policies: A Budgetary Perspective."

Williams serves as a professor at Dartmouth College and is the director of science policy at the Institute for Progress, a nonprofit think tank in Washington, D.C. Her expertise lies in the intersection of science, innovation, and policy, focusing on how these elements can be optimized to benefit society broadly.

"Heidi Williams is conducting pathbreaking research on some of the most important issues in health economics, including how government policy affects incentives for companies to invest money in new medical technologies that can improve our health, and why medical spending and health outcomes differ so substantially across geographic areas in the United States," said Sean Nicholson, professor of economics in the College of Arts & Sciences and in the Brooks School of Public Policy. "Heidi's work has, and will continue to have, a big impact on how policymakers view the health care market."

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