Anupam Jena Biography

Anupam Jena is a prominent physician-economist, keynote speaker, and the Joseph P. Newhouse Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. He is also a practicing internal medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and a National Bureau of Economic Research faculty research fellow. Born in the United States to Indian immigrant parents, Jena graduated from MIT with degrees in economics and biology, earned an M.D. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago, and completed his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Jena’s work focuses on health economics and policy, using natural experiments to explore physician behavior, medical malpractice, healthcare productivity, and medical innovation. He has authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles in journals like The New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA, and writes for outlets like The New York Times and The Washington Post. His book, “Random Acts of Medicine” (2023), examines how chance events shape healthcare outcomes. He hosts the “Freakonomics, M.D.” podcast, exploring the “hidden side of health care.”

Jena has received the NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (2013) and the Eugene Garfield Award (2007) for his work on the economic value of HIV/AIDS innovations. In 2018, Becker’s Hospital Review listed him among 100 Great Healthcare Leaders. He is celebrated for his accessible, creative talks on how medicine and economics intersect.

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