Speaker Information

Global Issues 2013

Dr. Theodore Marmor

Dr. Theodore R. Marmor Professor Emeritus, Yale University, taught in the Schools of Management, Law, and Political Science. Since 2008 he has been an Adjunct Professor in Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. A former Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s post-doctoral program in health policy, Professor Marmor was educated at Harvard University and Wadham College, Oxford. He is primarily a scholar of the modern welfare state, with special emphasis on health and pension issues. The author (or co-author) of eleven books, he has published over 150 articles in a wide range of scholarly journals.

His opinion essays have appeared in U.S. newspapers including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe. The Politics of Medicare became a political science classic and launched his career in health politics, policy and law. A collection of his recent articles appeared in “Fads, Fallacies and Foolishness” in Medical Management and Policy, (2007). Yale University Press will soon publish both a book co-edited with Rudolph Klein on comparative analysis and the world of health care and a collection of essays on politics, health and health care.