Professor Genevieve Kanter studies the economics of regulatory institutions, primarily in health care, with a focus on good governance, conflicts of interest, and government decision-making.

Her research has examined conflicts of interest in medicine, FDA advisory committees, the revolving door at regulatory agencies, and transparency policies. In a pinch, she will also muse about pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and health care cybersecurity and privacy.

After a forgettable stint in biomedical engineering, a more memorable couple of years forecasting healthcare spending in South Africa and Zimbabwe, and a serendipitous spell among the Econs in the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Professor Kanter earned a PhD in Economics and in Sociology from the University of Chicago. After graduate school, she completed an NIH postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University and research fellowships in ethics and health policy at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital.

She is Associate Professor of Public Policy in the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California, appointed in the Department of Health Policy and Management. She is also a Senior Scholar at the Leonard D Schaeffer Institute for Public Policy & Government Service at USC.

In addition to her university appointments, Professor Kanter serves on the Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC), the federal advisory committee providing guidance on Medicare coverage of medical products. She is also on the editorial board of the journal BMC Medical Ethics and has previously served as Chair of the Advisory Committee for the AcademyHealth Health Economics Interest Group.

Her empirical work and essays have been published in leading medical and health policy journals, including JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, Milbank Quarterly, and the American Journal of Public Health.