Eric Finkelstein

Eric Andrew Finkelstein is an American health economist. He is Professor in the Health Services & Systems Research Program at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, where he is also the director of the Lien Centre for Palliative Care. He is also an associate research professor at Duke University's Global Health Institute.

Finkelstein received his B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1991 and his M.A., Ph.D., and M.H.A. from the University of Washington in 1996, 1998, and 1999, respectively.

In 1999, Finkelstein joined RTI International as a senior health economist, and became the director of the Public Health Economics Program there in 2006. He served as an associate professor at Duke-NUS from 2009 until he was appointed a full professor there in 2013.

Finkelstein is known for his studies examining the economic costs of obesity. One study led by Finkelstein estimated that 42% of Americans would be obese by 2030.

Finkelstein is the author of two books: "Incidence and Economic Burden of Injuries in the United States" (2006) and "The Fattening of America" (2008).