A recent symposium recognizing the 25th anniversary of the Journal of Health Economics and its founding editor, Joseph P. Newhouse, PhD, was attended by 65 people in the third-floor rotunda of Harvard Medical School’s New Research Building. Newhouse is John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Department of Health Care Policy.

At the symposium, five new research papers were presented by health economists from Boston University, Harvard University, MIT, University of Chicago, and Tel Aviv University. These papers touched on areas of health economics and health policy in which Newhouse has made important contributions in his own research. In addition, Charles Phelps, Provost of the University of Rochester, remarked on Newhouse’s contributions to the field of health economics. Anthony Culyer, editor of the Journal of Health Economics, reflected upon the Journal’s 25 years.

The symposium was organized by Richard Frank, PhD, and Thomas McGuire, PhD, professors in the Department of Health Care Policy. Papers from the symposium are expected to be published in the commemorative issue of the Journal.

In addition to his faculty appointment in HCP, Newhouse is head of the Interfaculty Initiative on Health Policy and chairs the Committee on Higher Degrees in Health Policy, which administers the PhD program in health policy at Harvard. In addition to being founding editor of the Journal of Health Economics, Newhouse is a member of the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine, and has been a member and vice chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Newhouse has won numerous awards for his research.