Tracy A. Lieu , MD, MPH

Tracy Lieu, MD, MPH, is Director of the Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California. She leads a department of 67 faculty-level research scientists and more than 600 staff whose mission is to transform health through research on the causes of health and disease, and the best ways to deliver care for Kaiser Permanente members and for society.

At a national and international level, Dr. Lieu is an associate editor for JAMA. She served on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, and has chaired committees for the National Institutes of Health and the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Dr. Lieu’s career includes roles at the University of California, San Francisco, Penn, and Harvard, where she was the founding director of the center now titled the Division of Child Health Research and Policy. She is a professor in the Bernard J. Tyson Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine and an affiliate professor in the UCSF School of Medicine. Dr. Lieu is a practicing pediatrician who has led seminal studies in vaccine safety and policy, decision sciences, and population health. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Current Positions

• Director, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California
• Associate Editor, JAMA
• Professor of Health Systems Science, Bernard J. Tyson Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine
• Affiliate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco

Section Affiliations

• Women’s and Children’s Health
• Health Care Delivery and Policy

Primary Research Interests

• Child health services research
• Effectiveness and delivery of primary care
• Decision sciences, including decision analysis
• Patient and parent preferences for outcomes of care
• Economic evaluation
• Vaccine safety, economics, and delivery
• Asthma and lung diseases
• Health policy and family-centered outcomes

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