
From 2003-2006 he was a key architect of Massachusetts’ ambitious health reform effort, and in 2006 became an inaugural member of the Health Connector Board, the main implementing body for that effort. Gruber was on leave as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the Treasury Department. In 2006 he received the American Society of Health Economists Inaugural Medal for the best health economist in the nation aged 40 and under.ĭuring the 1997-1998 academic year, Dr. He has published more than 200 research articles, has edited six research volumes, and is the author of Public Finance and Public Policy, a leading undergraduate text in its 7 th edition, Health Care Reform, a graphic novel, and Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream (with Simon Johnson). He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Social Insurance, and the Econometric Society.



He is also the former Director of the Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the former President of the American Society of Health Economists. Jonathan Gruber is the Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1992.
