Our Scholars
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Find a scholar by policy area:
Senior Fellow Emeritus
Joseph Antos
Research Areas
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- Affordable Care Act
- Single-Payer Health Insurance
- Uninsured
- Cost of Prescription Drugs
Senior Fellow and Milton Friedman Chair
James C. Capretta
Research Areas
- Health care policy
- Market-based reform of US health care
- Entitlement reform
- US budget policy
- Global trends in aging
- health
- and retirement program reforms
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Amitabh Chandra
Research Areas
- Biopharmaceutical innovation and pricing
- Value in health care
- Medical malpractice
- Racial disparities in health care
Senior Fellow
Scott Gottlieb
Research Areas
- Pharmaceutical policy
- Cost of prescription drugs
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Health care reform
- Political and clinical trends in medicine
- Medical innovation
Nonresident Fellow
Brian J. Miller
Research Areas
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Health care policy
- Medicare
Senior Fellow
Sally Satel
Research Areas
- Mental health policy
- Domestic drug policy
- Political trends in medicine
- Transplant policy