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Alan B Cohen, ScD
Professor, Health Law, Policy & Management - Boston University School of Public Health
Biography
Alan B. Cohen, Sc.D. is a Research Professor in the Markets, Public Policy and Law Department of the Questrom School of Business and Professor of Health Law, Policy and Management in the BU School of Public Health. He currently is the editor of The Milbank Quarterly. He was national program director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research Program from 2013 to 2018, and also directed the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program from 1992 to 2016. At BU since 1994, he directed the Questrom School’s Health Care MBA Program for nine years (1994-2003), and the Boston University Health Policy Institute for ten years (2003-2013). His current research interests include: national health policy and health system reform; comparative health care systems; and evaluation of quality improvement initiatives. Earlier in his career, Dr. Cohen held faculty positions at Johns Hopkins University and Brandeis University, and spent eight years at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, serving as Vice President for Research and Evaluation for five years. He is principal author of Technology in American Health Care: Policy Directions for Effective Evaluation and Management (Michigan, 2004); co-editor of Medicare and Medicaid at 50: America's Entitlement Programs in the Age of Affordable Care (Oxford, 2015); and co-editor of "The Politics and Challenges of Achieving Health Equity," a special issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law (Duke, 2017). Dr. Cohen is an elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and previously served on the editorial boards of Health Affairs, Inquiry and the Journal of Health Organization and Management. In the past, he also was a John Evans Visiting Fellow at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand (fall 2010), a member of the Advisory Panel on Improving Healthcare Systems for the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (2013-2015), and a member of the International Scientific Advisory Group for the National Health Service's Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) in the West Midlands of the United Kingdom (2014-2018). 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.
Other Positions
- Research Professor, Markets, Public Policy & Law - Boston University Questrom School of Business
Education
- Harvard School of Public Health, ScD Field of Study: Health Services Administration
- Harvard School of Public Health, MS Field of Study: Health Policy and Management
- University of Rochester, BA Field of Study: Psychology
Publications
- Published on 2/29/2024
Cohen AB. In the March 2024 Issue of the Quarterly. Milbank Q. 2024 Mar; 102(1):5-10. PMID: 38422193.
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- Published on 12/1/2023
Cohen AB. In the December 2023 Issue of the Quarterly. Milbank Q. 2023 Dec; 101(4):1003-1008. PMID: 38108645.
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- Published on 9/1/2023
Cohen AB. In the September 2023 Issue of the Quarterly. Milbank Q. 2023 Sep; 101(3):641-645. PMID: 37727015.
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- Published on 6/1/2023
Cohen AB. In the June 2023 Issue of the Quarterly. Milbank Q. 2023 Jun; 101(2):253-258. PMID: 37309901.
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- Published on 4/1/2023
Cohen AB, Galea S, Lantz PM. Population Health Over the Next Decade: Major Challenges and Policy Prospects. Milbank Q. 2023 Apr; 101(S1):9-19. PMID: 37096614.
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- Published on 3/7/2023
Cohen AB. In the March 2023 Issue of the Quarterly. Milbank Q. 2023 Mar; 101(1):5-10. PMID: 36882958.
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- Published on 12/26/2022
Cohen AB. In the December 2022 Issue of the Quarterly. Milbank Q. 2022 Dec; 100(4):967-972. PMID: 36571175.
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- Published on 9/1/2022
Cohen AB. In the September 2022 Issue of the Quarterly. Milbank Q. 2022 Sep; 100(3):621-627. PMID: 36252090.
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- Published on 6/1/2022
Cohen AB. Confronting the Past to Right a Wrong. Milbank Q. 2022 Jun; 100(2):319-322. PMID: 35714593.
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- Published on 3/1/2022
Cohen AB. In the March 2022 Issue of the Quarterly. Milbank Q. 2022 03; 100(1):5-10. PMID: 35303366.
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News & In the Media
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Published on May 5, 2023
‘The Future of Population Health’ Event Cites Challenges, Opportunities
- Published on April 3, 2023
- Published on February 5, 2021
- Published on January 6, 2021
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Published on November 24, 2020
President-Elect Biden’s 8 Early Crisis Management Lessons for Business Leaders
- Published on January 17, 2020
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Published on November 8, 2018
Checking Claire McCaskill on GOP’s Plan for Pre-Existing Conditions