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William Hsiao
Research interests
Dr. Hsiao directs the Public Health Bioinformatics Group, an interdisciplinary group of researchers interested in solving practical public health and animal health problems through a One Health lens. The team combines knowledge engineering techniques and bioinformatics tool development to improve data sharing and integrated analysis in public health. Dr. Hsiao’s team developed several ontologies used to consistently describe health knowledge and data. These include the Genomic Epidemiology Ontology (GenEpiO) to describe genomics-based infectious disease surveillance data and the Food Ontology (FoodOn), a comprehensive set of vocabularies to describe various aspects of “food” ranging from food processing, food products, food consumers, to diet, linking together agricultural and nutritional data. FoodOn is currently being adopted by the USDA FoodData Central. His team is also developing ontology-driven text-mining tools to improve the extraction and re-use of biological data following FAIR principles.
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William Hsiao
Bio
William Hsiao is the K.T. Li Research Professor of Economics in Department of Health Policy and Management and Department of Global Health and Population, at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He is also a fully qualified actuary with extensive experience in private and social insurance. Dr. Hsiao’s health economic and policy research program spans across developed and less developed nations.
He is a leading global expert in universal health insurance, which he has studied for more than forty years. He has been actively engaged in designing health system reforms and universal health insurance programs for many countries, including the USA, Taiwan, China, Colombia, Poland, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Sweden, Cyprus, Uganda and most recently for Malaysia and South Africa. He also designed a single payer universal insurance model for the state of Vermont which intended to serve as a vanguard for the USA. Vermont passed a law based on his recommendations. However the recent set-back in Vermont’s economic
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William Hsiao
American economist
William C. Hsiao (simplified Chinese: 萧庆伦; traditional Chinese: 蕭慶倫; pinyin: Xiāo Qìnglún; born January 17, 1936) is an American economist who is the K.T. Li Research Professor of Economics[1] at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts. He is internationally recognized for his work on health care financing and social insurance.
Hsiao is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and received his PhD in economics from Harvard University. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the Society of Actuaries, and the National Academy of Social Insurance.
He has received teaching awards from Harvard graduate students on several occasions. He resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife, Ruth, a former lecturer at Tufts University. He has two sons and four grandchildren.
Biography
Hsiao was born in Beijing, China, and as a teenager immigrated to the United States, where his father was an economic advisor for the Kuomintang delegation to the United Nations. He grew up in
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