Health economics, Health care policy, Natural experiments in health care, Economics of physician behavior, Physician workforce, Medical malpractice, economics of health care productivity, Economics of medical innovation
Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD, is the Joseph P. Newhouse Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and a physician in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
As an economist and physician, Dr. Jena’s research involves several areas of health economics and policy including the use of natural experiments in health care, the economics of physician behavior and the physician workforce, medical malpractice, the economics of health care productivity, and the economics of medical innovation.
He is the host of the Freakonomics, MD podcast, which explores the “hidden side of health care” and the co-author of Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces that Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape our Health.