Eric Keuffel, Ph.D. MPH

email: ekeuffel@hfaai.net

Dr. Keuffel is a specialist in health finance and policy with over 20 years of experience in industry, policy and academic roles in health economics, finance and operations.  Currently he serves as Founder and Principal at the Health Finance and Access Initiative.  An expert on international health systems and pharmaceutical policy, he has worked as an Assistant Professor and Instructor at both the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) and the Fox School of Business (Temple University).  He has publications in both health policy and health economic journals/books and has presented his research at numerous international and domestic conferences.  Dr. Keuffel has also served as a consultant to the World Bank/IFC and has extensive commercial consulting experience advising healthcare industry clients on strategy, policy and economic issues.  He has taught courses in health finance/economics, health policy and international health systems at the graduate and undergraduate level.  Recent consulting engagements include work for multinational pharmaceutical clients, USAID, World Bank, World Health Organization (WHO), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation. He earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from Princeton University (Magna cum Laude), his Master in Public Health (MPH) from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and his doctorate in Applied Health Economics and Managerial Science from the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania).  Prior funding sources include the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).