Professor Genevieve Kanter's research focuses on the FDA and regulation of biomedical technologies; conflicts of interest; and hospital and physician payment models.

She earned a PhD in Economics and in Sociology from the University of Chicago. After graduate school, she completed an NIH postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University and research fellowships in ethics and health policy at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital.

She is Associate Professor in the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California, appointed in the Department of Health Policy and Management. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Leonard D Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics at USC.

In addition to her institutional appointments, Professor Kanter serves on the Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC), the federal advisory committee providing guidance on Medicare coverage of medical products, and is Chair of the Advisory Committee for the AcademyHealth Health Economics Interest Group.

Her empirical work and essays have been published in leading medical and health policy journals, including JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, Milbank Quarterly, and the American Journal of Public Health.