ASHEcon is a non-profit organization governed by a Board of Directors and officers. Directors and officers will meet at least annually and have rotating appointments.

Board of Directors

Officers

John Cawley
President
Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs & Daniel Patrick Moynihan Chair in Public Policy, Syracus University

W. David Bradford
President-Elect
Busbee Chair in Public Policy & Professor of Public Administration and Policy, University of Georgia

Leemore Dafny
Past President
Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration & Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University

David Slusky
Executive Director
Professor of Economics, University of Kansas

Ellen Meara
Secretary
Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard University

Shooshan Danagoulian
Treasurer
Associate Professor of Economics, Wayne State University

Mireille Jacobson
Editor-in-Chief, AJHE Journal
Professor of Gerontology and Public Policy & Assistant Dean of Academic Initiatives, University of Southern California

Directors

Christine Durrance
Professor of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin

Matt Eisenberg
Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University

Ashvin Gandhi
Economist in the Strategy Area at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economics Research

Darrell Gaskin
William C. and Nancy F. Richardson Professor in Health Policy, Johns Hopkins University

Sumedha Gupta
Associate Professor of Economics at Indiana University Indianapolis and Director of the IU Health Economics Consortium

Sara Markowitz
Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Economics, Emory University

Lauren Hersch Nicholas
Health Economist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado

Shelley White-Means
Professor and Director of the Consortium for Health Education, Economic Empowerment and Research, University of Tennessee

Brad Rice
Economist and Managing Principal, Analysis Group

Past Presidents

Leemore Dafny, 2025-2026

Stephen Parente, 2024-2025

Kosali Simon, 2023-2024

Kate Bundorf, 2022-2023

David Cutler, 2021-2022

Martin Gaynor, 2020-2021

Janet Currie, 2019-2020

Loren Baker, 2018-2019

Jon Gruber, 2017-2018

Mark Pauly, 2015-2016

Frank Sloan, 2013-2014

Randy Ellis, 2011-2012

Mike Grossman, 2009-2010

Jody Sindelar, 2007-2008

Joe Newhouse, 2005-2006