Daniel Polsky

Daniel Polsky is a national leader in the field of health policy and economics, has dedicated his career to exploring how health care is organized, managed, financed, and delivered, especially for low-income populations. He is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Economics and Policy at the Johns Hopkins University. He holds primary appointments in both the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Carey Business School. He holds secondary appointments in the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing. He is also the Director of the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative, uniting more than 150 scholars across Johns Hopkins University exploring the role of business and incentives in advancing health and an affordable and equitable, high-value health system.

He also is Co-Director of the Hopkins Economics of Alzheimer’s Disease and Services Center (HEADS). Through 2019, he was the Robert D. Eilers Professor at the Wharton School and the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania and Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics.

Dr. Polsky is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He was the senior economist on health issues at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and has served on the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisers. He received a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Michigan in 1989 and a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996.