David Cutler is the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, and holds a secondary appointment at the Harvard Kennedy School. Cutler is a health economist who seeks to understand how people are experiencing better health later in life than previous generations, and the impacts of medical care on the public sector, as well as the healthcare implications of racial and ethnic segregation. His work has earned him significant academic and public acclaim. Cutler served on the Council of Economic Advisers and the National Economic Council during the Clinton Administration, and advised the Presidential campaigns of Bill Bradley, John Kerry, and Barack Obama. He was a key advisor in the formulation of the cost control legislation in Massachusetts, and is one of the members of that state’s Health Policy Commission.
