About ASHEcon

Governance

ASHEcon is a non-profit organization governed by a Board of Directors and officers. Directors and officers will meet at least annually and have rotating appointments.

Randall Ellis
President
Professor, Department of Economics, Boston University.

Michael Grossman
Past President
Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate School and Program Director of Health Economics, NBER.

Frank Sloan
President Elect
J. Alexander McMahon Professor of Health Policy and Management and Professor of Economics, Duke University.

Michael Morrisey
Treasurer
Professor of Health Economics and Health Insurance, and Director of the Lister Hill Center for Health Policy,  University of  Alabama,  School of Public Health 

John Mullahy
Secretary
Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of  Wisconsin.

Laurence C. Baker
Professor of Health Research and Policy and CHP/PCOR Fellow , Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University.

Gloria Bazzoli
Professor of Health Administration, Department of Health Administration, School of Allied Health Professions, Medical College of Virginia Campus, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Susan Ettner
Professor, Department of Medicine and Health Services, UCLA School of Medicine.

Martin Gaynor
E.J. Barone Professor of Economics and Health Policy, Heinz School,  Carnegie Mellon University.

Dana Goldman
RAND Chair in Health Economics and is Director of Health Economics, Rand Corporation.

Joel Hay
Professor of Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy; Professor,  Leonard Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California.

Edward Norton
Professor, Department of Health Management and Policy and Department of Economics, University of Michigan.

Kosali I. Simon
Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University.

José A. Pagán
Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy
School of Public Health, University of North Texas Health Science Center.

Richard Arnould
Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois
Executive Director, ASHE.

Mission

ASHEcon is a professional organization dedicated to promoting excellence in health economics research in the United States. ASHEcon provides a forum for emerging ideas and empirical results of health economics research. Through a set of professional activities, ASHEcon aims to advance health economics research in the United States, to achieve widespread recognition for the field of health economics and to enhance individual and societal health by providing evidence and expertise for the development of private and public policies.

Goals

• Promote professional development of faculty and researchers at all levels including PhD students in academic and nonacademic environments.
• Encourage entry into and advancement of the field of health economics.
• Promote the application of economics to the study of health, medical organization and public and private policy relating to health and health policy.
• Advance research in health economics.
• Support effective teaching of health economics.
• Disseminate health economics research and other information about health economics.

Core activities

• Sponsor biannual meetings at alternating locations in the U.S. to disseminate current research results and provide a gathering place for the exchange of ideas between academic and nonacademic health economists.
• Create a web-page containing information on professional activities, job postings, member list, conference materials and relevant news items. Investigate the development of other information services.
• Organize sessions at the AEA, iHEA and other appropriate conferences.
• Develop and maintain ties with other relevant organizations
• However, advocacy will not be a core activity of ASHEcon