Benjamin D. Sommers, M.D., Ph.D., is the Huntley Quelch Professor of Health Care Economics at the Harvard School of Public Health, and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is a health economist and primary care physician whose main research interests are health policy for marginalized populations, health insurance, and the health care safety net. He has received numerous awards, including the Health Services Research Impact Award and the Article-of-the-Year Award from AcademyHealth, and has published over 200 research articles and reports. Sommers was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019. From 2021 to 2023 he served as deputy assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), and was appointed as the senior official leading ASPE from 2022 to 2023. His research has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of Health Economics, and Health Affairs, and covered by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. Sommers earned both his Ph.D. in health policy and his M.D. from Harvard University.
Benjamin D. Sommers
Huntley Quelch Professor of Health Care Economics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
