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Alan C. Monheit to Succeed Katherine Swartz as Inquiry Editor
ROCHESTER, NY, August 8, 2007
| Alan C. Monheit has been named the new editor of the health policy journal INQUIRY, succeeding Katherine Swartz, who has been the journal's editor for more than 11 years. The change takes effect with the summer 2007 issue; Swartz will remain associated with INQUIRY as its "immediate past editor." Monheit, a professor of health economics in the Department of Health Systems and Policy in the School of Public Health at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) and associate director of its Center for Health Economics and Health Policy, has been a long-time contributor and reviewer for INQUIRY. He directs UMDNJ's Ph.D. program in public health (concentration in health systems and policy) and is a research professor at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research and the Center for State Health Policy at Rutgers University, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to joining UMDNJ, he was director of the Division of Social and Economic Research at the Center for Cost and Financing Studies at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). He also previously held research positions at the Health Policy Institute and School of Medicine at Boston University. As a researcher, Monheit's interests include: the relationship between employment and health insurance coverage, demand for health insurance, health insurance dynamics, the uninsured population, the distribution of health care expenditures, regulation of health insurance markets, and the relationship between socioeconomic status and health. His work has been published in numerous professional journals and he served as co-editor for two books: State Insurance Market Reform: Toward Inclusive and Sustainable Health Insurance Markets and Informing American Health Care Policy: The Dynamics of Medical Expenditure and Insurance Surveys, 1977-1996. Monheit was a member of President Clinton's Health Reform Task Force and has been a technical adviser to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Health Insurance Association of America. In 1993, he received the first Administrator's Award for Health Services Research from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (precursor to the AHRQ). He received his Ph.D. in economics from City University of New York. |
 Alan C. Monheit |
Swartz, a professor of health policy and economics in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health, became INQUIRY editor in November 1995. Under her leadership, INQUIRY has expanded its profile to the Web and enhanced its national reputation as a leading health care journal. She has guided many authors and journal contributors over the years, and her thoughtful, knowledgeable editorials have brought greater meaning and insight to the challenges facing the nation's health care system. In addition to her teaching position, she serves as director of the RWJ Scholars in Health Policy Research Program at Harvard. Her research focuses on the uninsured population and efforts to increase access to coverage; reasons for highly expensive episodes of care and ways to control them; and strategies to pay for expanded health insurance coverage. She is a frequent lecturer and contributor to national and professional publications. Her book, Reinsuring Health: Why More Middle-Class People Are Uninsured and What Government Can Do, was published by the Russell Sage Foundation in June 2006. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, Swartz worked as a senior research associate at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. She was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City from September 2000 through June 2001. In 1991, she received the David Kershaw Award from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management for research done before age 40 that had a significant impact on public policy. Swartz received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. |
 Katherine Swartz |
Remaining as Managing Editor is Ronny Frishman, who has done so since 1993. |
 Ronny Frishman |