Speakers

Kate Bundorf, MBA, PhD

Professor

Duke Sanford School of Policy

Professor Bundorf’s research focuses on health policy and the economics of health care systems. She has studied public and private health insurance markets, the organization of health care providers, and consumer decision making in health care.

Prior to joining the faculty at Duke, Professor Bundorf was an associate professor of health research and policy at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Bundorf received her MBA and MPH from The University of California at Berkeley and her PhD from The Wharton School. She was a Fulbright Lecturer at Fudan School of Public Health in Shanghai, China during 2009 and 2010.

Her research has been published in leading economic and health policy journals and has received funding from the US National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She received the 13th Annual Health Care Research Award from The National Institute for Health Care Management in 2007.

Allan Coukell

Chief Government Affairs and Public Policy Officer

Civica Rx

Allan Coukell, BSc(Pharmacy), is Chief Government Affairs and Public Policy Officer with Civica Inc. (Civica Rx).

He previously served as Senior Director, Health Programs, at The Pew
Charitable Trusts, where he created and led a wide range of public health and health care initiatives. Coukell started his career as a clinical pharmacist in
oncology and also spent many years as a health and science journalist. He previously served on the board of the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA and was a founding board member of the Medical Device
Innovation Consortium.

He is a graduate of the University of Manitoba and completed his hospital pharmacy residency at the
Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre.

Rob Dunn, PhD

Senior Vice Provost for University Interdisciplinary Programs

NC State University

Dr. Robert (Rob) Dunn serves as Senior Vice Provost for University Interdisciplinary Programs at NC State University. In this role, Dunn oversees the Office of University Interdisciplinary Programs, which includes: the Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program; the Data Science, Genetics and Genomics, and Global One Health Academies; the Biotechnology Program; the Coastal Resilience and Sustainability Initiative; NC State Innovation and Entrepreneurship; the Integrative Sciences Initiative; the Long View Project; the Sustainable Futures Initiative; and the Shelton Leadership Center. He has worked alongside university leaders and campus partners to stand up the office, and is responsible for equipping new interdisciplinary initiatives for success, continuing to support existing initiatives, and achieving the office’s strategic goals.

Dunn also holds a William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professorship in the Department of Applied Ecology, where he devotes 20 percent of his time. He has been a member of the NC State faculty since 2005. Dunn manages the Public Science lab. His research has been awarded more than ten million dollars in grants from no fewer than twelve different sources for work in 20 different countries.

Dunn received his Bachelor of Arts in biology from Kalamazoo College, and his PhD in ecology and evolution from the University of Connecticut. He is an avid writer and has published many popular articles, in National Geographic, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal among many others, as well as seven books, most recently, A Natural History of the Future and Delicious, The Evolution of Flavor and How it Made us Human, with Monica Sanchez.

David Ridley, PhD

Faculty Director

Duke Health Sector Management

David Ridley is the Faculty Director for the Center for Health Sector Management at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. David is dedicated to creating innovative policy and business tools to address health care problems. He focuses on incentives for innovation and quality, as well as pricing.

David and his colleagues have published two papers that became law. In 2006, David (with Jeffrey Moe and Henry Grabowski) proposed the Food and Drug Administration’s priority review voucher program. In 2017, David (with Jeffrey Moe and Nick Hamon) proposed the Environmental Protection Agency’s vector expedited review voucher program. His research has been supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

David teaches courses on health care policy and business strategy to Duke University graduate students. He earned his doctorate in economics from Duke University.

Grant Walker

President of East Coast operations & Chief Clinical Operations and Learning Officer

Oak Street Health

Grant Walker is President of Oak Street Health’s East Coast operations as well as its Chief Clinical Operations and Learning Officer. He has served in a number of roles with Oak Street over the last 10+ years, going back to Practice Manager of its first clinic in its early startup days in Chicago.

He’s a former middle school English teacher in New York City public schools. He lives in Raleigh with his wife, dog, and [soon to be] newborn.