Ken Wong is Director of the USC Mann Division of Healthcare and Biopharmaceutical Business. The Division consists of the Healthcare Decision Analysis and Biopharmaceutical Marketing graduate programs. Dr. Wong serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical and Health Economics and is a Senior Fellow at the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics.
He previously served as director of health economics and outcomes research and director of managed healthcare at Novartis Pharmaceuticals. Prior to his work in the pharmaceutical industry, he held pharmacy leadership positions at Cigna, Caremark, HealthNet and UniHealth. He served as an accreditation surveyor for the Joint Commission, where he surveyed and advised healthcare systems on pharmaceutical and quality of care standards.
He graduated from the University of Southern California with a Doctorate in Pharmacy and received his Master’s in Public Health from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Dr. Wong’s research interests include innovations in market access and drug pricing.