Public Lectures

Bryan E. Dowd, PhD focuses his research on health economics, health policy, including markets for public and private health insurance and health care services, and the application of econometric methods to health service research problems. His recent research includes studies of insurance theory, causal modeling, health plan choice, enrollment and disenrollment in Medicare HMOs, tax policy, and Medicare reform. He has published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals and coauthored the book Competitive Pricing for Medicare with HPM colleagues. He is the recipient of three Article of the Year Awards. Currently he chairs the Methods Council for AcademyHealth.

Dr. Dowd is the director of graduate studies for the M.S. and Ph.D. programs in health services research, policy and administration, and he served as interim division head in HPM from 1998 to 1999. He received his Ph.D. in public policy analysis from the University of Pennsylvania, his MS in urban administration from Georgia State University and his Bachelor of Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a licensed architect.