Heidi Williams (born 1981) is a Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College[2] and Director of Science Policy at the Institute for Progress.
[5] In 2015, Williams was made a MacArthur Fellow, a grant given yearly to 25 people around the world to continue work in their fields.
[7] Her citation[8] for that award noted: Heidi Williams is an economist unraveling the causes and consequences of innovation in health care markets.
Williams combines finely grained empirical observations and custom-designed data collection methods to build entirely new datasets about technological changes in health care.
In addition, her creative methods for determining causal inference, and keen understanding of regulatory law, biological science, and medical research, have allowed her to trace the interplay among institutions, market behavior, and public policy–relevant outcomes.In June 2021, Williams was a co-recipient of the biennial ASHEcon Medal, an award from the American Society of Health Economists for researchers aged 40 and under who have made significant contributions to the field of health economics.