Prof Eric FINKELSTEIN 
 

Dr Finkelstein is Professor of Health Services and Systems Research at the Duke-NUS Medical School and the Executive Director of the Lien Centre for Palliative Care. He also holds appointments at the National University of Singapore School of Public Health and Duke University Global Health Institute. His research focuses on the economic causes and consequences of health behaviours, with a primary emphasis on the use of traditional and behavioural economic incentives to influence those behaviours in ways to improve the public’s health.  Recent research also focuses on studies to better understand the complicated decisions that revolve around end of life care. He has published over 160 manuscripts and 2 books in these areas, and also successfully commercialised an Obesity Cost Calculator for employers and insurers. Based on Google Scholar, he has an H-index of 47 and his publications have been cited over 14,000 times, including in the landmark Supreme Court decision upholding the U.S. Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). In 2015, he was selected by Thomson Reuters as one of the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds.