Two health policy experts from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health—Arnold Epstein and Benjamin Sommers—have been recognized as leading health services researchers by AcademyHealth.
Epstein, deputy assistant secretary and head of the Office of Health Policy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and currently on leave from Harvard Chan School, received the 2015 Distinguished Investigator Award for making significant and lasting contributions to the field of health services research through scholarship, teaching, advancement of science and methods, and leadership.
Sommers, assistant professor of health policy and economics, was recognized with two awards. He received the 2015 Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award, which recognizes scholars early in their careers as health services researchers who show exceptional promise for future contributions to the field. He also received the Article-of-the-Year Award, which recognizes the best scientific work that the fields of health services research and health policy have produced during the previous calendar year, for the article “Changes in Mortality After Massachusetts Health Care Reform,” for which he was first author.
AcademyHealth is an organization that advances research, policy, and practice in health services research and health policy.
Read the AcademyHealth press release: AcademyHealth Recognizes Leading Health Services Researchers