Zirui Song is Associate Professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and a general internist at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he practices primary care. A physician-health economist, his research focuses on efforts to improve the value of health care spending and the impact of financial incentives and policy interventions on health and economic outcomes. This has included studies of payment reform, pricing of medical services, financing of health insurance, and quality or appropriateness of care. Related work aims to understand other policies or factors that affect spending or health outcomes, including employer efforts, peer influences, and individual- or population-level interventions.

Dr. Song directs the health policy track in the MGH Internal Medicine Residency Program; is director of research at the HMS Center for Primary Care; and co-directs the first-year Harvard medical and dental health policy course. He is also an associate editor of JAMA Health Forum and an editorial board member for Health Services Research.

Dr. Song is a recipient of the AcademyHealth Article-of-the-Year award, NIHCM Foundation Health Care Research Award, and Society of General Internal Medicine Outstanding Junior Investigator of the Year Award. His research has also been recognized by Johns Hopkins, the American College of Physicians, American Journal of Managed Care, and International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research. For clinical work, he received the Morton N. Swartz, M.D. Humanism in Medicine Award at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Song trained in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard, where he was a fellow in Aging and Health Economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his B.A. in Public Health Studies with honors from Johns Hopkins University.

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