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Meet the Harkness Fellows

Harkness fellows sit in chairs — 2024–25 Harkness Fellows at Whitman-Walker’s Max Robinson Center during the Washington, D.C., Health Policy Seminar

2024–25 Harkness Fellows at Whitman-Walker’s Max Robinson Center during the Washington, D.C., Health Policy Seminar

The Commonwealth Fund’s Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice provide a unique opportunity for midcareer health services researchers and practitioners from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, 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.

Profiles for the 2025–26 Harkness Fellows are featured here, and our Senior Fellows (alumni) are searchable below.

Chukwuebuka Anyaegbuna

Chan Chi Ling

Caroline Figueroa

Rocco Friebel

Lucinda Hiam

Reza Jarral

Florence Jusot

Kate Mulligan

Henning Øien

William David Roberts

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Angel Arnaout

Thomas Barnay

Malcolm Battersby

Senior Research Fellow, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute; Mental Health program lead, Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, Flinders University; Professor of Psychiatry, Flinders University

Associate Professor, University of Toronto

Nikola Biller-Andorno

Iren Bischofberger

Founder, Co-Owner, redoing care gmbh; Senior Researcher, ETH Zurich; Member Board of Directors, solicare AG; Senior Nurse Scientist, Cantonal Hospital Aarau; Member, National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics; Member Board of Directors, University Hospital Basel; President, rethinking care (Association); Senior lecturer, Privatdozentin, University of Vienna