Lina Song is an Assistant Professor of Operations and Technology at the University College London School of Management. Her research interests broadly lie in providing operations management insight to public policy decision-making problems. Within it, she explores how the external market and regulatory environment interact with the organizations’ operational choices, efficiency, and quality, and how to design policy levers to improve the delivery of social goods and services. Dr. Song focuses on the healthcare delivery and financing system.
Dr. Song completed her Ph.D. at Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, with a concentration in decision science and health policy, under the supervision of Professor Soroush Saghafian (Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University). Before Harvard, she received an MA degree in Statistics from Yale University and a BS degree in Applied and Computational Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). She has also worked as a researcher at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the World Bank.