Professor Genevieve Kanter's research focuses on the political economy of health care, including conflicts of interest in medicine, FDA advisory committees, and government ethics (e.g., revolving door, transparency). In a pinch, she will also muse about policies related to biomedical technologies, AI, and cybersecurity.

She uses economics and quantitative methods to identify incentive systems that underlie ethics policy problems. Her broader goal in understanding these incentives is to provide evidence-informed guidance for ethics policies in health care and government.

After a forgettable stint in biomedical engineering, a more memorable couple of years forecasting healthcare budgets in South Africa and Zimbabwe, and a serendipitous spell among the Econs 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 Center for Health Policy & Economics at USC.

In addition to her institutional 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, and is Past-Chair of the Advisory Committee for the AcademyHealth Health Economics Interest Group. She is also on the editorial board of the journal BMC Medical Ethics.

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.