Harkness Project Title: Engaging Consumers in Health: What Factors Influence Health and Health Care Behaviors?
Mentor: Judith Hubbard, Dr.P.H.
Placement: Department of Planning, Public Policy, and Management, University of Oregon
Biography at time of Harkness Fellowship: Anna Dixon, a 2005–06 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy, is acting director of policy at the King's Fund in London and a lecturer in European health policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Dixon began her academic career as a research officer with the European Observatory on Health Care Systems where she focused on comparative analysis of European health systems in particular funding issues. She has advised several Ministries of Health as a short-term consultant and organized a number of intensive courses for policymakers from central and eastern Europe. Most recently Dixon had an 18-month secondment to the Department of Health (2003-2004) where she worked as a policy analyst in the Strategy Unit, advising ministers and contributing to the development of The NHS Improvement Plan. She graduated with a first class degree in social and political science from Cambridge University (1994) and an M.Sc. with distinction in health policy, planning and financing from the London School of Economics and Political Science and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (1998). She also holds a Ph.D. from LSE in the regulation of complementary medical practitioners in the U.K.
Project: Anna Dixon investigated how health and health care behaviors differ between patients enrolled in traditional PPO health plans and those enrolled in consumer-directed plans. In particular, she focused on whether the two patient groups used information on providers’ quality and cost differently. She analyzed a survey of employees from a large manufacturing company that offers both a traditional PPO and high- and low-deductible consumer directed health plans.
Career Activity Since Fellowship
- Chief Executive, Centre for Ageing Better, 2015
- Director of Quality and Strategy and Chief Analyst, Department of Health England, 2013
- Director of Policy, King’s Fund, 2008
- Deputy Director of Policy, King’s Fund, 2006
- Lecturer in European Health Policy, London School of Economics, 2006
Current Position: (updated 10/2017)
- Chief Executive, Centre for Ageing Better
E-mail: [email protected]