Alan B. Cohen is a Professor of Health Policy and Management at Boston University School of Management, where he directs the national program office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research and Scholars in Health Policy Research Programs. He is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and the principal author of Technology in American Health Care: Policy Directions for Effective Evaluation and Management (University of Michigan, 2004).

David C. Colby is Vice President of Policy at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and is a noted health services research and policy expert. His published research has focused on Medicaid and Medicare, media coverage of AIDS, political science, and civil rights. He has worked in government on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, on the Physician Payment Review Commission, and at the Congressional Budget Office, and is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance.

Keith A. Wailoo is the Townsend Martin Professor of History and Public Affairs and Vice Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. His recent books include: Pain: A Political History (Johns Hopkins, 2014); How Cancer Crossed the Color Line (Oxford University, 2011); and The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay-Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sickle Cell Disease (Johns Hopkins, 2006). He was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2007.

Julian E. Zelizer is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University and a Fellow at New America. He publishes a popular weekly column for CNN.com His most recent book is The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society (Penguin Press, 2015).

Andrea Louise Campbell
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Alan B. Cohen
Professor of Health Policy and Management
School of Management
Boston University

David Colby
Vice President, Public Policy
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Elisabeth Fauquert
Instructor and Visiting Scholar
Études Politiques de Lyon
Brown University

Judith Feder
Professor of Public Policy
McCourt School of Public Policy
Georgetown University

Rashi Fein
Professor of the Economics of Medicine, Emeritus
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School

Jacob Hacker
Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science
Director, Institution for Social and Policy Studies
Yale University

Theodore R. Marmor
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Public Policy and Management
School of Management
Yale University

James Morone
John Hazen White Professor of Political Science and Public Policy
Department of Political Science
Brown University

Jonathan Oberlander
Professor and Vice Chair, Social Medicine
School of Medicine
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Mark A. Peterson
Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Law
Luskin School of Public Affairs
University of California, Los Angeles

Jill Quadagno
Professor of Sociology, and Mildred and Claude Pepper Eminent Scholar in Social Gerontology
Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy
Florida State University

Uwe Reinhardt
James Madison Professor of Political Economy, and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Princeton University

Sara Rosenbaum
Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy
School of Public Health and Health Services
The George Washington University

Mark Schlesinger
Professor of Public Health (Health Policy)
School of Public Health
Yale University

David Barton Smith
Research Professor
Center for Health Equality, and Department of Management and Policy
School of Public Health
Drexel University

Paul Starr
Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs
Department of Sociology
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Princeton University

Frank J. Thompson
Distinguished Professor
School of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers-Newark, and
Center for State Health Policy
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research
Rutgers University

Keith Wailoo
Townsend Martin Professor of History and Public Affairs
Department of History
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Princeton University

Julian Zelizer
Professor of History and Public Affairs
Department of History
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Princeton University

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