Amitabh Chandra

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ABOUT AMITABH CHANDRA

Amitabh Chandra is an economist, the McCance Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, the Ethel Wiener Professor of Public Policy and Director of Health Policy Research at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is a member of the Congressional Budget Office\'s (CBO) Panel of Health Advisors, an elected member of the American Academy of arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Social Insurance and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research focuses on innovation, finance, and productivity growth in healthcare, medical malpractice, and racial disparities in healthcare. His research has been supported by the National Institute of Aging, the National Institute of Child Health and Development, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Health Affairs. For a decade, he served as an Editor and Chair Editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics.Chandra has testified to the United States Senate and the United States Commission on Civil Rights. His research has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, Newsweek, and on National Public Radio. He has served as Massachusetts\' Special Commissioner on Provider Price Reform.Professor Chandra is the first-prize recipient of the Upjohn Institute\'s Dissertation Award, the Kenneth Arrow Award for best paper in health economics, and the Eugene Garfield Award for the impact of medical research. In 2012, he was awarded American Society of Health Economists (ASHE) medal. The ASHE Medal is awarded biennially to the economist age 40 or under who has made the most significant contributions to the field of health economics.