Joseph Newhouse

Who is Joseph Newhouse?

Joseph P. Newhouse 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 faculties at Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, and Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Prior to joining Harvard, he worked for twenty years as an economist at the RAND Corporation, serving 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 started the Oregon Health Study.

He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He is also a Faculty Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also the Editor of the Journal of Health Economics, which he founded in 1981.

He has received the numerous awards such as 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, and the Paul A. Samuelson Certificate of Excellence from TIAA-CREF.