Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management; Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy, HMS;
Chief, Section on Health Services and Policy Research, Division of General Medicine (Brigham & Women's Hospital)
Arnold Epstein
Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management
John H. Foster Professor of Health Policy and Management
Department of Health Policy and Management
677 Huntington Avenue
Kresge Building Room 403
Boston, MA 02115
617.432.3415
aepstein@hsph.harvard.edu
Research
Dr. Epstein's research interests focus on access and quality of care especially for disadvantaged populations. Among ongoing projects are studies that examine:
- Quality of care for colorectal cancer and breast cancer in select national sites;
- Value based purchasing by large health care purchasers nationally and its relationship to quality management in health plans they contract with;
- Changes in racial disparities in procedure use between 1992 and 2001;
- Changes in quality management by state Medicaid agencies overseeing Medicaid health plans;
- The impact of payments for quality performance on quality of care; and
- The impact of incentive formularies on quality of care.
Education
M.D., 1976, Duke University