Paul B. Ginsburg holds the Leonard Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, where he is the director of the Center for Health Policy and a senior fellow in economic studies. He also is a professor of Health Policy at the University of Southern California and director of public policy at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics. He leads the Schaeffer Initiative for Innovation in Health Policy, a partnership between Brookings and the USC Schaeffer Center.
A Harvard-trained economist and health policy expert, Dr. Ginsburg is a member of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) and the former president of the Center for Studying Health System Change, which he founded in 1995. Prior to founding HSC, he served as the founding executive director of the Physician Payment Review Commission (now MedPAC), was a senior economist at the RAND Corp., a deputy assistant director at the Congressional Budget Office, and a faculty member at Duke and Michigan State universities.
