Rate My Professor Anupam Jena

Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD, is the Joseph P. Newhouse Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and a physician in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Dr. Jena graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his MD and PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago and completed his residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. As an economist and physician, his research involves several areas of health economics and policy including the use of natural experiments in health care, the economics of physician behavior and the physician workforce, medical malpractice, the economics of health care productivity, and the economics of medical innovation. He is the host of the Freakonomics, MD podcast, which explores the hidden side of health care.

Dr. Jena has received multiple honors including the 2011 Finalist for the Annals of Internal Medicine Young Investigator Award, the 2011 Finalist for the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation Annual Research Award, the 2008-2009 AHRQ Postdoctoral Fellowship, the 2007 Eugene Garfield Award from Research! America, the 2005-2006 National Institute of Aging Training Fellowship, the 2000-2009 National Institutes of Health Medical Scientist Training Program Fellowship, and Phi Beta Kappa from MIT in 2000. Key publications include “Association of County-Level Prescriptions for Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin With County-Level Political Voting Patterns in the 2020 US Presidential Election” (JAMA Intern Med, 2022), “College affirmative action bans and smoking and alcohol use among underrepresented minority adolescents in the United States: A difference-in-differences study” (PLoS Med, 2019), “Association of Overlapping Surgery With Perioperative Outcomes” (JAMA, 2019), and “Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder and Month of School Enrollment” (New England Journal of Medicine, 2019). He serves on Harvard Medical School’s Standing Committee on Health Policy.