News | February 05, 2015
Bastian Ravesteijn receives Harkness Fellowship
TI is pleased to announce that PhD candidate Bastian Ravesteijn was recently awarded a Harkness Fellowship by the Commonwealth Fund. Fellows spend twelve months at a top U.S. research institution to work with leading U.S. experts and study health care delivery reforms and critical issues on the health policy agenda in both the U.S. and their home countries. A rich program of seminars organized by the Fund throughout the year further enhances the fellowship experience.
Bastian Ravesteijn is a PhD candidate at the Erasmus School of Economics (EUR) working on his dissertation project on ‘The health returns to education: The occupational linkage’. Supervisor is TI fellow professor Eddy van Doorslaer (EUR). His research interests include health economics, labor economics, and microeconometrics. Bastian is an alumnus (2011) of the TI MPhil program.
About the Harkness Fellowship Program
The Commonwealth Fund’s Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice provide a unique opportunity for mid-career health services researchers and practitioners from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom to spend up to 12 months in the United States, conducting original research and working with leading U.S. health policy experts.