A chat with Daniel Polsky
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A chat with Daniel Polsky Nandita Mitra1 Received: 19 April 2020 / Revised: 7 May 2020 / Accepted: 11 May 2020 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Dr. Daniel Polsky gave the opening Keynote Address at the 2020 ICHPS conference in San Diego, CA. In this interview, we highlight his career achievements in health economics and health policy that made him uniquely qualified to give this address. We also focus on his thoughts on bridging the gap between methodological health policy research and policy implementation. We end with his specific advice and recommendations for both junior investigators and leaders in statistics on ways to ensure that their research remains relevant, translatable, and impactful to policy makers. Keywords Health Policy Statistics Section · American Statistical Association · International Conference on Health Policy Statistics · Keynote Address
1 Introduction We were delighted to have Dr. Daniel Polsky give the opening Keynote Address at the 2020 International Conference on Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS) held in beautiful San Diego, CA. Dan gave a thought-provoking and timely talk on bridging the gap between research and policy. He is uniquely qualified to address this issue as an expert in both health economics methodology and policy implementation. Dan is the 40th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Economics at Johns Hopkins University where he holds primary appointments in both the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Carey Business School. From 1996 to 2016 he was on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the Robert D. Eilers Professor at both the Wharton School and the Perelman School of Medicine. From 2012 to 2019 he served as executive director of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics. * Nandita Mitra [email protected] 1
Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Dan is a national leader in the field of health policy and economics, and has dedicated his career to exploring how health care is organized, managed, financed, and delivered, focusing on the implications for low-income populations. His own research has advanced our understanding of the cost and quality tradeoff of interventions whether they are changes to large federal programs or local programs. His most recent work focuses on how to provide access to quality health care in low-resource settings with a particular interest in narrow provider networks. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, serves on the Health and Medicine Committee and on the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He serves on the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisers and was the senior economist on health issues at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Notably, back in 1995, when D
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