M-RCBG Senior Fellow-Led Study Group: Eric Evans
Tuesday, November 1, 4:30-6:00pm M-RCBG Conference Room (B-503)
U.S. Health Insurance: What is it? How does it work? Who pays what to whom?
At this study group, Eric J Evans, M-RCBG Senior Fellow, and will lead a discussion on how the U.S. health Insurance system works.
What is public and what is private? How did we get there? How is it determined who pays how much to whom? How does the system accommodate advances in medicine and provide the right incentives to all parties?
This event is open to all. Registration is not required.
Eric Evans is a long-time venture capital investor, executive and entrepreneur, specializing in health care and the life sciences. He currently sits on the Executive Committee of Mass Medical Angels, an investment group that finances early-stage medical technology companies. He is also a Portfolio Executive on the leadership team of RADx (Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics), a National Institutes of Health initiative to develop COVID diagnostics in a unique public-private partnership. In the past Eric has served as Chief Executive Officer at several early-stage life sciences companies, including Primatope, Pykus, Abazyme, Lumos, Mulleris and Targeted Cell Therapies. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Unison Medicines, working to develop a novel antibiotic potentiator. For years previously, he ran Growth Analytics, a boutique strategy consulting firm that counseled senior management of large industrial companies around the world on issues of growth and strategy. He began his consulting career with the Boston Consulting Group, working in the Boston, New York, and Munich offices. Before that, he was in brand management at the Procter & Gamble Company, at world headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. He lectures widely (Johns Hopkins University, University of Barcelona, European Institute of Innovation and Technology) on entrepreneurialism, and is the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the University of Massachusetts. Eric holds a graduate degree in Finance and Public Policy from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and an undergraduate degree in Nuclear Physics from Brown University. As an M-RCBG Senior Fellow, he will be focusing on public-private partnerships in health care. His faculty sponsor is Amitabh Chandra, Ethel Zimmerman Wiener Professor of Public Policy, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø; Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration, HBS. Email: eevans@hks.harvard.edu