Professor Wu’s research examines health plan’s price bargaining, the interaction between private insurance and Medicare program, and the effect of managed care, ownership type, market competition, and quality information on varies outcomes. Her work has been published in Health Services Research, Inquiry, Journal of Health Economics, and the International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics. Vivian received her doctorate and master’s degrees in Health Policy from Harvard University and her bachelor’s degree in Rehab Medicine from National Taiwan University. Prior to joining the school, she served as a staff economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisors between 2000 and 2001. She was a fellow at the Bing Center of Health Economics at the RAND Corporation in 2009-2010.