Daniel Polsky, Ph.D., M.P.P
- Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine
- Professor of Health Management, Wharton School
- Director of Research, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Dr. Polsky received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania
in May 1996 and a Master of Public Policy from the University of Michigan in
1989. His research areas include health insurance and financial access to
health care; and the economic evaluation of medical and behavioral health
interventions. The link between all of his research is a commitment to
establishing causal relationships between either medical or health system
interventions and health and economic outcomes using randomized trials,
administrative clinical data, and national health surveys. In addition to
his publications in the Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics,
Health Services Research, and Medical Care, he is a coauthor of the book
"Economic Evaluation in Clinical Trials" published by Oxford University
Press.