Joseph Newhouse
| Joseph P. Newhouse | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 24, 1942 |
| Nationality | United States |
| Institution | Harvard University |
| Field | Health economics |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University (Ph.D., 1969) Harvard University (B.A., 1963) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
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. 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.
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. He was the Editor of the Journal of Health Economics for 30 years, which he founded in 1981.
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.
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