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Amitabh Chandra
Health Care Economist, Henry & Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Director of Health Policy Research, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Amitabh Chandra
Health Care Economist, Henry & Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Director of Health Policy Research, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Biography
Amitabh Chandra is a health care economist, Henry & Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School and Director of Health Policy Research at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Professor Chandra is a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) Panel of Health Advisors, and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research focuses on innovation and pricing in the biopharmaceutical industry, value in health care, medical malpractice, and racial disparities in healthcare.
His research has been supported by the National Institute of Aging, the National Institute of Child Health and Development, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Health Affairs. He is the Chair Editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics.
Chandra has testified to the United States Senate and the United States Commission on Civil Rights. His research has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, Newsweek, and on National Public Radio. He has been a consultant to the RAND Corporation, Microsoft Research and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts. In 2011 he served as Massachusetts’ Special Commissioner on Provider Price Reform.
Professor Chandra is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, the first-prize recipient of the Upjohn Institute’s Dissertation Award, the NIHCM Foundation Health Care Research Award, the Kenneth Arrow Award for best paper in health economics, and the Eugene Garfield Award for the impact of medical research. In 2012, he was awarded American Society of Health Economists (ASHE) medal. The ASHE Medal is awarded biennially to the economist age 40 or under who has made the most significant contributions to the field of health economics.
Speaker Videos
Health Care Minute: Amitabh Chandra
Speech Topics
Beyond the Affordable Care Act: The Future of Healthcare Reform in the US
In the wake of the Presidential election, payers, manufacturers, and investors are struggling to make sense of health care reform in the US. We will explore the points of agreement and disagreement between Democrats and Republicans on the reform agenda to make sense of what the future may look like. We will discuss what the ACA achieved and what it did not, contrast it to approaches in Medicare for All proposals, and discuss the evidence for transparency and alternative payment models. The discussion will move onto opportunities and challenges that transcend current policy debates— like improving quality, reducing the cost of care, being able to encourage innovation— especially in the area of delivery, and treatments for Alzheimer’s.
The Healthcare Trilemma: Access, Quality & Innovation
Interactive discussion of what ails US healthcare with an emphasis on challenges and opportunities for the future.
The BioPharma Dilemma: Balancing Innovation & Access
Interactive discussion of the tradeoff between higher rates of innovation from the bio-pharma industry and the challenge of providing access to these innovations. Much of the speech focuses on opportunities to overcome this dilemma.
What to Watch: Health Care Policy Considerations for Health Plans
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