Health Policy Faculty and Staff

Administrative Office

Our administrative offices are at 14 Story Street, 4th floor, in Harvard Square.

Debbie Whitney
Associate Director, PhD and Undergraduate Programs in Health Policy
14 Story Street, Rm 409
617.496.5506 (ph) | 617.496.2860 (fax)

Suzanne Scudder
Advisor, Undergraduate Program in Health Policy
Program Coordinator, Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy
14 Story Street, Rm 403B
617.496.5412 (ph) | 617.496.2860 (fax)

Faculty

Faculty members associated with the Undergraduate Program in Health Policy are located throughout the university.


Faculty Chair, Undergraduate Program in Health Policy

David Cutler David M. Cutler
Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics
Department of Economics
Littauer Center, Room 315
Cambridge, MA 02138
617.496.5216 (ph) | 617.495.7730 (fax)


David Cutler is currently the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics in the Department of Economics and Kennedy School of Government and recently completed a five-year term as associate dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for Social Sciences. Honored for his scholarly work and singled out for outstanding mentorship of graduate students, Professor Cutler's work in health economics and public economics has earned him significant academic and public acclaim. Professor Cutler served on the Council of Economic Advisers and the National Economic Council during the Clinton Administration and has advised the Presidential campaigns of Bill Bradley, John Kerry, and Barack Obama. Among other affiliations, Professor Cutler has held positions with the National Institutes of Health and the National Academy of Sciences. Currently, Professor Cutler is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the Institute of Medicine.

Professor Cutler is the author of Your Money Or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System, published by Oxford University Press. This book, and Professor Cutler's ideas, were the subject of a feature article in the New York Times Magazine, The Quality Cure, by Roger Lowenstein. Cutler was recently named one of the 30 people who could have a powerful impact on healthcare by Modern Healthcare magazine and one of the 50 most influential men aged 45 and younger by Details magazine.

Faculty on the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in Health Policy

The following is a list of faculty members on the Standing Committee on Higher Degrees in Health Policy. An asterix indicates those who have recently been active in advising undergraduate students at Harvard:

Joseph P. Newhouse*
John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management (Kennedy School, Medical School, Public Health) (Chair)

John Z. Ayanian
Professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine (Medical School)
Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management (Public Health)

Katherine Baicker
Professor of Health Economics (Public Health)

Robert J. Blendon*
Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis (Public Health, Kennedy School)

David E. Bloom*
Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography (Public Health)

Allan M. Brandt*
Professor of the History of Science and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (FAS)
Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine (Medical School)

Daniel P. Carpenter*
Allie S. Freed Professor of Government (FAS)

Amitabh Chandra*
Professor of Public Policy (Kennedy School)

Michael Chernew*
Professor of Health Care Policy (Medical School)

Nicholas A. Christakis*
Professor of Sociology (FAS)
Professor of Medical Sociology (Medical School)

I. Glenn Cohen
Assistant Professor of Law (Law School)

David M. Cutler*
Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics (FAS)

Norman Daniels*
Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics (Public Health)

Amy C. Edmondson
Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management (Business School)

Arnold M. Epstein
John H. Foster Professor of Health Policy and Management (Public Health)
Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy (Medical School)

Majid Ezzati
Associate Professor of International Health (Public Health)

Erica M. Field*
Assistant Professor of Economics (FAS)

Richard G. Frank*
Margaret T. Morris Professor of Health Economics (Medical School)

G. Scott Gazelle
Professor of Radiology (Medical School)
Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management (Public Health)

Sue Goldie
Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health (Public Health)

David C. Grabowski
Associate Professor of Health Care Policy (Medical School)

James K. Hammitt
Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences (Public Health)

Robert S. Huckman*
Associate Professor of Business Administration (Business School)

Haiden A. Huskamp
Associate Professor of Health Care Policy (Medical School)

Guido Imbens*
Professor of Economics (FAS)

Ashish K. Jha
Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management (Public Health)
Associate Professor of Medicine (Medical School)

Nancy M. Kane*
Professor of Management (Public Health)

Jane J. Kim*
Assistant Professor of Health Decision Science (Public Health)

Gary King*
David Florence Professor of Government (FAS)

Michael R. Kremer*
Gates Professor of Developing Societies (FAS)

Bruce E. Landon
Associate Professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine (Medical School)

Peter V. Marsden*
Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of Sociology and Harvard College Professor (FAS)

Marie C. McCormick
Sumner and Esther Feldberg Professor of Maternal and Child Health (Public Health)
Professor of Pediatrics (Medical School)

Thomas G. McGuire*
Professor of Health Economics (Medical School)

Barbara J. McNeil
Ridley Watts Professor of Health Care Policy and Professor of Radiology (Medical School)

Michael McWilliams
Assistant Professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine (Medical School)

Michelle Mello
Professor of Law and Public Health (Public Health)

Carl N. Morris*
Professor of Statistics (FAS)

Sharon-Lise T. Normand
Professor of Health Care Policy (Medical School)
Professor in the Department of Biostatistics (Public Health)

Gary Pisano
Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration (Business School)

Lisa A. Prosser
Assistant Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention (Medical School)
Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management (Public Health)

Meredith B. Rosenthal*
Associate Professor of Health Economics and Policy (Public Health)

Donald B. Rubin*
John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics (FAS)

Joshua A. Salomon*
Associate Professor of International Health (Public Health)

Stephen B. Soumerai
Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention (Medical School)

David G. Stevenson*
Assistant Professor of Health Policy (Medical School)

B. Katherine Swartz*
Professor of Health Economics and Policy (Public Health)

Milton C. Weinstein
Henry J. Kaiser Professor of Health Policy and Management (Public Health)
Professor of Medicine (Medical School)

Alan M. Zaslavsky*
Professor of Health Care Policy (Medical School)

Richard J. Zeckhauser
Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Political Economy (Kennedy School)