Christopher Conover, PhD
Christopher Conover, PhD, brings a strong background of health care policy and analysis to the Program. He is Assistant Research Professor of Health Policy Studies in the Terry Sanford Institute for Public Policy, Director of Duke's Health Policy Certificate Program at Duke University and Director of the Jim Bernstein Health Policy Scholars Program, a partnership between the Center for Health Policy, NC Institute of Medicine, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation.
Dr. Conover works in the Center for Health Policy, which in July 2007 became a part of the Global Health Institute at Duke University. He focuses on state health policy issues, including health care for the uninsured and medically indigent, the social burden of illness and federal and state health regulation. He has served as consultant to the North Carolina Health Reform Commission, to the NC Department of Insurance on questions related to Blue Cross and Blue Shield Conversion to for-profit status, and most recently to the Assistant Secretary of Planning and Evaluation at the federal Department of Health and Human Services on the benefits and costs of health services regulation. During his career, he has advised many governor's and legislative panels and testified before the U.S. Congress.
He developed the Duke Health Policy Gateway to use the Internet for fostering evidence-based health policy decisions, along with companion sites NC Health Policy Gateway and Who's Who in NC Health Policy. He holds a doctorate in public policy from the Pardee RAND Graduate School.
