2023/24
Claire Wilson
Claire is an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist and Research Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Her fellowship was based in Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Vageesh Jain
Vageesh is a Consultant in Public Health Medicine in the NHS South West London Integrated Care Board. For his fellowship Vageesh investigated the epidemiology of firearm suicide and homicide.
2022/23
Becks Fisher
Becks leads the Health Foundation’s work on general practice. She is interested in how health policy can support equitable provision of primary care services and in models of care and payment for general practice.

Zainab Garba-Sani
Zainab completed her Harkness Fellowship at Stanford University and Lighthouse Silicon Valley. Her work explored the question: “How does a person’s ethnicity influence their perception of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in health and care?”
Aoife McDermott
Aoife McDermott, PhD’s, research at the University of California, Berkeley, was underpinned by a concern with primary care physicians’ employment relationships and experiences at work.
Emmert Roberts
Emmert’s research project was entitled, “Drug-related deaths among housed and homeless individuals in the United Kingdom and the United States”.
2021/22
Matilda Allen
Matilda’s research project was entitled, ‘How could and should US Healthcare Organizations be acting on the Social Determinants of Health in their local communities?’
Emily Hough
Emily’s research explored approaches to implementing community health improvement programs in US health systems.
Andres Roman-Urrestarazu
The focus of Andres’ study was Health System Responses to the Opioid Epidemic in the United States
Emma Watson
Emma’s project was to learn from Rural Hospital Bright spots to develop a framework for sustainable healthcare in rural and underserved communities
2019/20
Nason Maani
Nason’s project was entitled COVID-19, Inequity, and Underinvestment in US Population Health
Holly Krelle
Holly’s research focus is on innovation centres in U.S. hospitals, and the extent to which the NHS could, or should, replicate them
John Withington
John studied the impact of Medicaid expansion on early cancer diagnosis, post-ACA.
2018/19
Mary Docherty
Mary studied implementing integrated primary care, mental health and social care for individuals with complex needs
Huseyin Naci
Huseyin studied the Accessibility and Affordability of High-Cost Prescription Drugs in the U.S
Prakash Jayakumar
Prakash studied transforming Musculoskeletal Health Care through Condition-focused Integrated Care.
2017/2018
Sarah Huf
Sarah tested a behavioural economics approach to cancer screening uptake.
William Wynn Jones
William studied the impact of bundled payments on integration within surgical clinical pathways.
Adam Briggs
Adam studied what we can learn from ACOs to improve preventive care
Hugh Alderwick
Hugh’s work focused on approaches to addressing patients’ social needs, like housing instability or food insecurity.
2016/2017
Saira Ghafur
Dr. Ghafur is the lead for digital health policy at the Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College.
Christina Pagel
Christina is Director of the Clinical Operational Research Unit at University College London and a Reader (Associate Professor).
2015/2016
Parashar Ramanuj
Parashar Ramanuj is a 2015–16 U.K. Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice.
Dr Irene Papanicolas
Dr Irene Papanicolas, Ph.D., was an assistant professor of health economics in the Department of Social Policy/LSE Health at the London School of Economics when she applied for a Harkness Fellowship.
Daniel Northam Jones
Daniel Northam Jones, M.A., was a 2015–16 U.K. Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice.























