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Alan M. Garber, MD, PhD
Provost of Harvard University, Mallinckrodt Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and a Professor of Economics in the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Former Stanford Health Policy Director; Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. Professor EmeritusView Alan Garber's bio, list of research, recent publications and events »
April 2nd, 2010
Health Reform Forum brings together Stanford's experts to assess implications of new health law
CHP/PCOR NewsDean Philip Pizzo, MD; Stanford Health Policy Director Alan Garber, MD, PhD; and Alain Enthoven, PhD, emeritus professor in the Graduate School of Business, discussed the elements and efficacy of the health-care reform legislation that President Barack Obama signed into law in late March. The 90-minute exchange, moderated by Daniel Kessler, JD, PhD, a professor of law, of business and of health research and policy, brought an overflow audience to the Clark Center auditorium. Read more »
March 24th, 2010
In New England Journal Commentary, SHP Director Alan Garber explores the role of FDA in regulating devices
CHP/PCOR AnnouncementStanford Health Policy Director Alan Garber writes about the regulation of medical devices by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Garber considers the implications of adding in a more thorough post-FDA approval screening process for devices. Read more »
March 2nd, 2010
Proposed industry effort to reduce salt in food could save lives, money, SHP/VA study shows
CHP/PCOR Press ReleaseA voluntary effort by the U.S. food service industry to reduce salt in processed foods could have far-reaching implications for the health of the U.S. population, preventing strokes and heart attacks in nearly a million Americans and saving $32.1 billion in medical costs, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford Health Policy and the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System. Read more »
February 22nd, 2010
SHP Director Alan Garber discusses health reform efforts in podcast
CHP/PCOR NewsIn an interview with the School of Medicine executive director of the Office of Communication & Public Affairs Paul Costello, Alan Garber discusses the failure of the Congress to enact a health-care reform bill and the prospects for future action, in an interview for the “1:2:1” podcast (available at http://med.stanford.edu/121/2010/garber.html) from the Stanford University School of Medicine. Garber, a professor of medicine, is also director of the Center for Health Policy and the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research at Stanford, and director of the Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Read more »
December 8th, 2009
Garber and Fuchs join top economists in letter to Congressional leadership about cost control measures necessary in health reform
CHP/PCOR in the newsStanford Health Policy Director Alan Garber and core faculty member Victor Fuchs joined over two dozen economists in a letter to Senator Harry Reid. The economists-- including four Nobel Laureates-- laid out four elements in the current draft bill that they identified as "crucial to health reform." These include (1) deficit neutrality, (2) an excise tax on high insurance premiums, (3) an independent Medicare commission and (4) delivery system reform. 
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