Joseph Newhouse

Joseph P. Newhouse
Born (1942-02-24) February 24, 1942 (age 82)
NationalityAmerican
Academic career
FieldHealth economics
InstitutionHarvard University
Alma materHarvard University (Ph.D., 1969)
Harvard University (B.A., 1963)
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Joseph P. Newhouse (born February 24, 1942) is an American economist and the John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management at Harvard University, as well as the Director of the Division of Health Policy Research and of the Interfaculty Initiative on Health Policy.[1][2][3] At Harvard, he is a member of the four faculties at Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Harvard Medical School in Boston, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, and Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge.

Prior to his joining the Faculty at Harvard, he worked for twenty years as an economist at the RAND Corporation, and served as a faculty member of the RAND Graduate School from 1972 to 1988. At RAND, he played a leading role in RAND Health Insurance Experiment. In 2008, he collaborated with the Oregon Health Study team.[4][5]

He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine formerly the Institute of Medicine. He is also a Faculty Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.[citation needed] He was the Editor of the Journal of Health Economics for 30 years, which he founded in 1981.[6]

He has received the numerous awards such as the Victor R. Fuchs Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Health Economists, the David Kershaw Prize from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Association for Health Services Research, the Kenneth J. Arrow award in Health Economics from the International Health Economics Association, the Zvi Griliches award for the best paper in Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Hans Sigrist Prize, and the Paul A. Samuelson Certificate of Excellence from TIAA-CREF. He was twice awarded article of the year by AcademyHealth. In 1988, he was awarded the Baxter Health Services Research Prize and the Administrator's Citation from the Health Care Financing Administration. He has also been awarded the Hans Sigrist Foundation Prize for distinguished scientific achievement; the American Risk and Insurance Association's Elizur Wright Award for an outstanding contribution to the literature on risk and insurance literature.[6]

He is the author of many journal articles and several books including "Free for All: Lessons from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment "Harvard University Press, 1993, and "Pricing the Priceless: A Health Care Conundrum" MIT Press, 2002.[6]

He was the founding director of the Health Policy Ph.D. program at Harvard University and chaired the committee that administers the program for 25 years.[7] He is the Principal Investigator of a National Institute of Aging T-32 grant for MD-PhD's in Health Policy, Economics, and Social and Behavioral Sciences.[8] He has chaired or been a member of 71 doctoral dissertation committees in his career.

  1. ^ Joseph P. Newhouse Faculty profile page at Harvard Kennedy School of Government
  2. ^ Joseph P. Newhouse Faculty profile page at Harvard Medical School's Department of Health Care Policy Archived 2010-11-04 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Joseph P. Newhouse Faculty profile page at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston
  4. ^ Oregon Health Study Archived 2012-06-26 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ In Oregon, Test Case for Health Overhaul, Better Care at a Cost, By ANNIE LOWREY, New York Times, June 22, 2012
  6. ^ a b c Frank, Richard G., and Thomas G. McGuire. "In recognition of Joseph P. Newhouse." (2007): 1071-1072.
  7. ^ Joseph P. Newhouse Faculty profile page at Harvard Ph.D Program in Health Policy
  8. ^ Department of Health and Human Services MD-PhD Training Program in Aging and the Social/Behavioral Sciences (T32)