Senior Fellows
Alan B. Cohen, Sc.D.
Executive Director, HPI, and Director, HPR
Dr. Cohen is Professor of Health Policy and Management at the BU School of Management, and Professor of Health Services at the BU School of Public Health. He also directs the national program office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program. Dr. Cohen has 30 years of experience in health policy, health services research, and program evaluation. His current research interests include health policy and cost containment, comparative health care systems, evaluation of quality improvement initiatives, and policies regarding medical technology evaluation and regulation.
Dr. Cohen came to HPI in 2003, after serving for nine years as Program Director of the School of Management ’s Health Care MBA Program, where he taught courses in American health policy, technology management, and comparative health care systems. Prior to joining Boston University, he was Research Professor and University Lecturer in the Institute for Health Policy of the Florence Heller Graduate School at Brandeis University, where his research focused on assessing the feasibility of setting national health care expenditure limits. Before that, he served as Vice President for Evaluation, Research, and Statistics at The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, where he directed staff operations overseeing the design of national program evaluations and the design of RWJF surveys, including the Access to Care Survey, the Survey of Young Physicians (with the AMA), and the Survey of Business Leaders’ Views on Health Care. He also had management responsibility for programs in the areas of health care financing, state health policy, quality of care, and medical malpractice reform. Previously, he was Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Hospital Finance and Management, and Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. His earlier work as a senior analyst for Urban Systems Research & Engineering, Inc., in Cambridge, MA, involved evaluation studies of federal and state health programs in the areas of health statistics, health planning, Certificate of Need regulation, and health professions training.
Dr. Cohen currently serves on the editorial board of Inquiry, and served for eight years on the editorial board of Health Affairs. He is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, and a Fellow of AcademyHealth. He is the principal author of Technology in American Health Care: Policy Directions for Effective Evaluation and Management (University of Michigan Press, 2004). He received his B.A. in psychology from the University of Rochester, and his M.S. and Sc.D. in health policy and management from the Harvard School of Public Health.
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