Prof. Eric FINKELSTEIN

Prof Eric Finkelstein is Professor of Health Services and Systems Research at the DukeNUS Medical School, Singapore and the Executive Director of the Lien Centre for Palliative Care. He also holds appointments at NUS School of Public Health and Duke University Global Health Institute. His research focuses on the economic causes and consequences of health behaviours, with a primary emphasis on the use of traditional and behavioural economic incentives to influence behaviours in ways to improve the public’s health. Recent research also focuses on studies to better understand the complicated decisions that revolve around end of life care. He has published over 180 manuscripts and 2 books in these areas, and also successfully commercialised an Obesity Cost Calculator for employers and insurers. Based on google scholar, he has an h-index of 56 and his publications have been cited over 30,000 times, including in the landmark Supreme Court decision upholding the U.S. Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). He was included in the list of the World's Most Highly Cited Researchers in 2016, 2017 and 2018 by Thomson Reuters and Clarivate Analytics.