Research studies from Harkness Fellows in Health Care Policy and Practice include:
- Claire Lemer, a 2004–05 Harkness Fellow, and her coauthors compare hospital medication systems in the United States and the United Kingdom, focusing on each nation’s efforts to prevent adverse drug events and medication errors.
- Franco Sassi, a 2000–01 Harkness Fellow, and his coauthors set out to explore whether increases in mammography screening rates are associated with improvements in the cancer stage at diagnosis, and whether this association varied by women's race/ethnicity.
- Peter Sprivulis, a 2004–05 Harkness Fellow, and his coauthors set out to determine the relationship between peak hospital workload and the rate of adverse events. In another article, he and his coauthors estimated the costs and benefits of creating an interoperable health information exchange system among Australian health care providers and stakeholders.
- Nicholas Steel, a 2002–03 Harkness Fellow, and his coauthors assessed whether adults in England age 50 or older with serious health conditions are receiving recommended care.
- In the Commonwealth Fund–supported study, Technological Change Around the World: Evidence from Heart Attack Care, researchers set out to investigate this issue by comparing heart attack treatments in 17 nations.
- Kieran Walshe, a 2000–01 Harkness Fellow, and his coauthor, find that the public in the United Kingdom has lost confidence in health care professionals as a result of recent inquiries and scandals.
- Sharon Willcox, a 1999–2000 Harkness Fellow, reviews the rationale for three government policies enacted in the late 1990s or 2000 that were intended to promote private coverage, which had been experiencing declining participation.