Angela Liu is a PhD student at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is interested in examining policy-relevant questions related to US healthcare spending, prices, and managed care policies. Her dissertation examines Medicare Advantage insurance-driven coverage decisions and their impacts on beneficiary outcomes and plan choice. In prior and ongoing research, she has studied healthcare spending in the US, the impact of pharmaceutical coupons, and reference-based pricing for Medicare Part B drugs. Her research has been published in outlets such as JAMA, The Lancet, and Health Services Research.

Prior to Hopkins, Angela worked as a Fellow and Researcher at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle, Washington, where she leveraged large, secondary data sets to create UA healthcare spending estimates.

Angela has a MPH degree from the University of Washington, and a bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Washington.