Bianca K. Frogner, Ph.D. is a health economist and Professor in the Department of Family Medicine in the School of Medicine at University of Washington (UW). She is also the Director of the UW Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWS) and Director of the Primary Care Innovation Lab (PCI-Lab), both housed in the Department of Family Medicine. She is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health in the UW School of Public Health. She is on the leadership team of the Advancing Workforce Analysis and Research for Dementia (AWARD) Network led by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA).
Dr. Frogner is a Governor-appointed member of the Washington state Health Care Cost Transparency Board and is the Chair of the Data Issues Advisory Committee of the Board. She has served the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, including as a member of the Consensus Study Committee on Educating Health Professionals to Address the Social Determinants of Health. She has provided state and federal testimony to inform health workforce policies including for the Worker and Family Support Subcommittee of the US House Ways and Means Committee and the US Department of Justice. She is an Editorial Advisory Board Member of Milbank Quarterly and on the Editorial Board of Medical Care Research and Review.
Dr. Frogner’s has produced over 150 publications including peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and reports. She has delivered over 250 scholarly presentations and has appeared in media outlets including CNN, NPR, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Vox, and Politico. She received the 2019 John M. Eisenberg Article-of-the-Year Award from Health Services Research and the 2022 UW Department of Family Medicine Research and Scholarship Excellence Award. She also received the 2023 UW School of Medicine Excellence in Mentoring Women Faculty Award.
Dr. Frogner completed a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. Dr. Frogner received her PhD in health economics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and BA at University of California, Berkeley in Molecular and Cell Biology.