Joseph Newhouse

John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management
Chair, Committee on Higher Degrees in Health Policy
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Office Address
Littauer-346
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 42
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-496-9307
Fax: 617-496-2860
Email: joseph_newhouse@harvard.edu
Assistant
Sally Makacynas (617-495-1197)
Joseph Newhouse

Profile

Joseph P. Newhouse, John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management, is head of the Interfaculty Initiative on Health Policy and chairs the Committee on Higher Degrees in Health Policy, which administers the PhD program in Health Policy at Harvard. He edits the Journal of Health Economics, is a member of the editorial board of The New England Journal of Medicine, serves on the Board of Health Advisors of the Congressional Budget Office and the Comptroller Generals Advisory Committee, andhas been vice chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Newhouse was the first recipient of the David Kershaw Prize of the Associa­tion of Public Policy and Management and has received the Distinguished Investigator Award of the Association for Health Services Research, the Kenneth J. Arrow award, the Zvi Griliches award, and the Paul A. Samuelson Certificate of Excellence for various writings.

 

Courses

Fall

  • HCP-597 Core Course in Health Policy I

Spring

  • HCP-598 Core Course in Health Policy II
  • HCP-581 Doctoral Seminar in the Economics of Health and Medical Care
  • HCP-272 The Economics of Health Care Policy

Media Expertise

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Research

For a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Academic Journals
    • Hsu, John, Jie Huang, Vicki Fung, Mary Price, Richard Brand, Rita Hui, Bruce Fireman, William Dow, John Bertko, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Distributing $800 Billion: An Early Assessment Of Medicare Part D Risk Adjustment." Health Affairs 28.1 (January/February 2009): 215-225.
    • Concannon, Thomas W., John L. Griffith, David M. Kent, Sharon-Lise Normand, Joseph P. Newhouse, James Atkins, Joni R. Beshansky, and Harry P. Selker. "Elapsed Time in Emergency Medical Services for Patients With Cardiac Complaints." Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes 2 (January 2009): 9-15.
    • Zhang, Yuting, Julie Marie Donohue, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Judith R. Lave. "The Effects of the Coverage Gap on Drug Spending: A Closer Look at Medicare Part D." Health Affairs 28.2 (February 2009): 317-325.
    • Arrow, Kenneth J., Alan Auerbach, John Bertko, Shannon Brownlee, Lawrence Casalino, Jim Cooper, Francis J. Crosson, Alain Enthoven, Elizabeth Falcone, Robert C. Feldman, Victor R. Fuchs, Alan M. Garber, Marthe R. Gold, Dana Goldman, Gillian K. Hadfield, Mark A. Hall, Ralph I. Horwitz, Michael Hooven, Peter D. Jacobson, Timothy S. Jost, Lawrence J. Kotlikoff, Jonathan Levin, Sharon Levine, Richard Levy, Karen Linscott, Harold S. Luft, Robert Mashal, Daniel McFadden, David Mechanic, David Meltzer, Joseph P. Newhouse, et alia. "Toward a 21st Century Health Care System: Recommendations for Health Care Reform." Annals of Internal Medicine 150.7 (April 7, 2009): 493-495.
    • Timbie, Justin, David M. Shahian, Joseph P. Newhouse, Meredith B. Rosenthal, and Sharon-Lise T. Normand. "Composite Measures for Hospital Quality Using Quality-adjusted Life Years." Statistics in Medicine 28.8 (April 15, 2009): 1238-1254.
    • Reed, Mary, Vicki Fung, Mary Price, Richard Brand, Nancy Benedetti, Stephen F. Derose, Joseph Newhouse, and John Hsu. "High-Deductible Health Insurance Plans: Efforts To Sharpen A Blunt Instrument." Health Affairs 28.4 (July/August 2009): 1145-1154.
    • Zhang, Yuting, Julie M. Donohue, Judith R. Lave, Gerald O'Donnell, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "The Effect of Medicare Part D on Drug and Medical Spending." New England Journal of Medicine 361.1 (July 2, 2009): 52-61.
    • Smith, Sheila, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Mark S. Freeland. "Income, Insurance, And Technology: Why Does Health Spending Outpace Economic Growth?" Health Affairs 28.5 (September/October 2009): 1276-1284.
    • Chernew, Michael E., Lindsay Sabik, Amitabh Chandra and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Would Having More Primary Care Doctors Cut Health Spending Growth?" Health Affairs 28.5 (September/October 2009): 1327-1335.
    • Eggleston, Karen, Nilay D. Shah, Steven A. Smith, Amy E. Wagie, Arthur R. Williams, Jerome H. Grossman, Ernst R. Berndt, Kirsten Hall Long, Ritesh Bannerjee, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "The Net Value of Health Care for Patients With Type 2 Diabetes, 1997 to 2005." Annals of Internal Medicine 151.6 (September 2009): 386-W127.
    • Ballard, Dustin W., John Hsu, Maggie Price, Vicki Fung, Richard Brand, Mary E. Reed, Bruce Fireman, Joseph P. Newhouse, and Joseph V. Selby. "Validation of an Algorithm for Categorizing the Severity of Hospital Emergency Department Visits." Medical Care 48.1 (January 2010): 58-63.
    • Michael E. Chernew, Lindsay Sabik, Amitabh Chandra, and Joseph P. Newhouse. "Ensuring the Fiscal Sustainability of Health Care Reform." New England Journal of Medicine 362.1 (January 7, 2010): 1-3.