Joseph Newhouse

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.

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 was the founding director of the Health Policy Ph.D. program at Harvard University and chaired the committee that administers the program for 25 years. He is the Principal Investigator of a National Institute of Aging T-32 grant for MD-PhD's in Health Policy, Economics, and Social and Behavioral Sciences. He has chaired or been a member of 71 doctoral dissertation committees in his career.

He is the author of many journal articles and several books including "Free for All: Lessons from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment "Harvard University Press, 1993, and "Pricing the Priceless: A Health Care Conundrum" MIT Press, 2002.