Joseph P. Newhouse John D. MacArthur Professor of Health
Policy and Management
Harvard University
Director of Aetna or its predecessors since 2001
Joseph P. Newhouse is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management
at Harvard University, a position he assumed in 1988. At Harvard, he also is the
Director of the Division of Health Policy Research and Education, the Director
of the Interfaculty Initiative on Health Policy, Chair of the Committee on Higher
Degrees in Health Policy and a member of the faculties of the John F. Kennedy
School of Government, the Harvard Medical School, the Harvard School of Public
Health and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Prior to joining Harvard, Dr. Newhouse
held various positions at The RAND Corporation from 1968 to 1988, serving as a
faculty member of the RAND Graduate School from 1972 to 1988, as Deputy Program
Manager for Health Sciences Research from 1971 to 1988, Senior Staff Economist
from 1972 to 1981, Head of the Economics Department from 1981 to 1985 and as a
Senior Corporate Fellow from 1985 to 1988. Dr. Newhouse is the Editor of the Journal
of Health Economics, which he founded in 1981. He is a Faculty Research Associate
of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy
of Sciences, a member of the New England Journal of Medicine Editorial Board,
a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a director of the National
Committee for Quality Assurance. Dr. Newhouse is the author of Free for All: Lessons
from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment and Pricing the Priceless: A Health
Care Conundrum. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Aetna Foundation,
Inc.
