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Lawrence Brown
600 W. 168th ST., 6th Floor
Professor of Public Health; Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health
Phone: 212-305-3925
ldb3@columbia.edu
Biography:
Lawrence Brown is a professor at the Mailman School of Public Health, Division of Health Management where he heads Columbia's Public Policy Consortium.
His expertise is in the fields of health care reform and related political issues, the uninsured, competition and regulation, general health care policy issues, Medicaid managed care, and cross-national health policy. His works include "Competition and the New Accountability: Do Market Incentives and Medical Outcomes Conflict or Cohere?" in Competitive Approaches to Health Care Reform, which was edited by Richard J. Arnould, Robert F. Rich, and William D. White (Urban Institute Press 1993); "Policy Reform as Creative Destruction: Political and Administrative Challenges in Preserving the Public-Private Mix" in Inquiry (1992); "The National Politics of Oregon's Rationing Plan," in Health Affairs (1991); Health Policy and the Disadvantaged (Duke University Press 1991); The Changing Politics of Federal Grants (The Brookings Institution, October 1984); New Policies, New Politics: Government's Response to Government's Growth (The Brookings Institution, February 1983); Politics and Health Care Organizations: Health Maintenance Organizations as Federal Policy (The Brookings Institution, October 1982); and The Political Structure of the Federal Planning Program (The Brookings Institution, January 1982), among others.
Larry Brown is a former editor of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, and a senior fellow at The Brookings Institute. He is a technical advisor to the New York State Governor's Health Care Advisory Board and a member of the National Advisory Committees of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Investigators and Urban Health Initiative Programs.
Professor Brown received both his BA (1969) and PhD (1973) from Harvard University. He is a former faculty member of the University of Michigan.