Ken Wong is Director of the USC Mann Division of Healthcare and Biopharmaceutical Business, which includes the Healthcare Decision Analysis and Biopharmaceutical Marketing graduate programs. He serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical and Health Economics and as a Senior Scholar at the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics.
Dr. Wong previously held leadership positions in the pharmaceutical and managed care industries, including Director of Health Economics and Outcomes Research and Director of Managed Healthcare at Novartis Pharmaceuticals. Earlier in his career, he served in pharmacy leadership roles with Cigna, Caremark, and UniHealth. As an accreditation surveyor for the Joint Commission, he advised healthcare systems on pharmaceutical and quality-of-care standards.
He earned his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Southern California, a Master of Public Health from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Dr. Wong’s research focuses on healthcare access and pharmaceutical pricing policy.