Anupam Jena, MD, PhD

Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD, is a health economist, practicing internal medicine physician and professor of health care policy. He 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 fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Additionally, Dr. Jena is the host of the Freakonomics, MD podcast, which explores the “hidden side of health care.”

Dr. Jena’s 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.
A prolific author, Dr. Jena has contributed to more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and articles published in outlets including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and The New York Times. He is a recipient of the NIH Director's Early Independence Award to fund research on the physician determinants of health care spending, quality, and patient outcomes, and a recipient of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) New Investigator Award. In 2018, Dr. Jena was listed among the 100 great leaders in health care by Becker's Hospital Review.

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.