Lawrence D Brown, PhD

Lawrence D. Brown is a professor of health policy and management in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. He studies the political formulation and implementation of health care policies in the United States and in other Western societies. He is the author of Politics and Health Care Organization: HMOs as Federal Policy ( Brookings, 1983), The Private Abuse of the Public Interest: Market Myths and Policy Muddles ( with Lawrence Jacobs) (Chicago,2008), and Political Exercise: Active Living, Public Policy, and the Built Environment ( Columbia, 2022), plus many articles. Brown is a former editor of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.