Health Systems and Population Health

Research Interests

Health economics; health workforce; primary care; health insurance; comparative health systems

Bio

Bianca K. Frogner, PhD, is Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Family Medicine (DFM) in the School of Medicine at University of Washington (UW). She is the Director of the UW Center for Health Workforce Studies and the Director of the UW Primary Care Innovation Lab (PCI-Lab), both housed in DFM. Dr. Frogner is an Adjunct Professor in the Health Systems and Population Health Department of the UW School of Public Health and serves on the Coordinating Core of Rural PRO-CARE, a Rural Health Equity and Research Network (HERN) funded by the American Heart Association.

Dr. Frogner also serves on the leadership team of the UCSF Advancing Workforce Analysis and Research for Dementia (AWARD) Network. Dr. Frogner is a Governor-appointed member of the Washington state Health Care Cost Transparency Board and is the Chair of the Data Issues Advisory Committee of the Board. She has served on National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine committees, including most recently as co-chair of a workshop on the affordability of health professional education. She is on the Editorial Boards of Milbank Quarterly, Health Services Research, and Medical Care Research and Review.

Dr. Frogner has produced approximately 200 publications, including peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and reports. She has delivered over 250 scholarly presentations and has appeared in media outlets including CNN, NPR, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Vox, and Politico. She has received awards recognizing her excellence in both mentorship and research. Dr. Frogner completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. Dr. Frogner received her PhD in health economics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and BA at University of California, Berkeley in Molecular and Cell Biology.

Education

PhD Health Economics, Johns Hopkins University, 2008
BA Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California (Berkeley), 2001

Academic Programs and Affiliations

• PhD Program in Health Services