Olivia Zhao is a doctoral student in Health Policy (Management). Her current research interests center on hospital organization, alternative payment models, and voluntary approaches to provider regulation. Previous work has examined medical labor supply and patient outcome responses to privatization in England's National Health System.

Olivia received a B.S. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018 and an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford in 2020 as a Marshall Scholar. She is also affiliated with the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London.