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We want to acknowledge in particular the three reviewers selected as the Outstanding Reviewers of 2019. This new annual award honors reviewers who have provided high quality, thoughtful, and timely comments for the Quarterly, chosen by consensus of the editors.
Outstanding Reviewers
Melissa Favreault The Urban Institute Washington, DC
Leighton Ku George Washington University Washington, DC
Joseph White Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH
2019 Reviewers
Jean M. Abraham University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN
Gerard F. Anderson John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, MD
George Annas Boston University School of Public Health Boston, MA
Samantha Artiga Kaiser Family Foundation Washington, DC
Arlene Ash University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester, MA
Jerry Avorn Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston, MA
Thomas F. Babor University of Connecticut School of Medicine Farmington, CT
Peter Bach Memorial Sloan‐Kettering Cancer Center New York, NY
Deborah Bachrach Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP New York, NY
Howard L. Bailit University of Connecticut School of Medicine Farmington, CT
Kevin Barnett Public Health Institute Oakland, CA
James W. Begun University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN
Robert A. Berenson The Urban Institute Washington, DC
Asaf Bitton Harvard Medical School Boston, MA
Nick Black London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine London, England
Robert J. Blendon Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MA
Alexander Blount Antioch University New England Keene, NH
Tom Bodenheimer University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA
Frank Bordonaro Anthem Raleigh‐Durham, NC
Luisa N. Borrell Lehman College, City University of New York Bronx, NY
John Bound University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
Tricia Brooks Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy Washington, DC
Rachel A. Burton Medicare Payment Advisory Commission Washington, DC
Andrea Louise Campbell Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
Joel C. Cantor Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ
Colleen Carey Cornell University College of Human Ecology Ithaca, NY
Katherine Grace Carman RAND Corporation Santa Monica, CA
Daniel Carpenter Harvard University Cambridge, MA
Joel Cohen Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Rockville, MD
Megan B. Cole Boston University School of Public Health Boston, MA
Damien Contandriopoulos Université de Montréal Montréal, Canada
Sabrina Corlette Georgetown University Health Policy Institute Washington, DC
Natasha Crowcroft Public Health Ontario Toronto, Canada
Dennis Culhane University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
Laura J. Damschroder VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System Ann Arbor, MI
Sandra L. Decker National Center for Health Statistics Hyattsville, MD
Diana M.J. Delnoij National Health Care Institute Diemen, The Netherlands
Kumar Dharmarajan Clover Health Jersey City, NJ
Lisa Dixon New York State Psychiatric Institute New York, NY
Allen Dobson Dobson, DaVanzo & Associates, LLC Vienna, VA
Jalpa A. Doshi University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
Pamela Doty US Department of Health and Human Services Washington, DC
Ian Duncan University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA
Daniel Eisenberg University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
Kevin M. Esterling University of California, Riverside Riverside, CA
Mark Exworthy University of Birmingham School of Social Policy Birmingham, England
Mark A. Fendrick University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
Michael A. Fischer Brigham & Women’s Hospital Boston, MA
Daniel M. Fox Milbank Memorial Fund New York, NY
Richard Frank Harvard Medical School Boston, MA
Gary Franklin University of Washington Seattle, WA
Erika Franklin Fowler Wesleyan University Middletown, CT
Simone A. French University of Minnesota School of Public Health Minneapolis, MN
Erin Fries Taylor Mathematica Policy Research Washington, DC
Sandro Galea Boston University School of Public Health Boston, MA
Thomas H. Gallagher University of Washington Seattle, WA
John M. Garcia University of Waterloo Waterloo, Canada
A. Bowen Garrett The Urban Institute Washington, DC
Robin Gauld University of Otago Medical School Dunedin, New Zealand
Alexander Geissler Berlin University of Technology Berlin, Germany
Martha Gerrity Center for Evidence‐based Policy Portland, OR
Robert D. Gibbons University of Chicago Chicago, IL
Paul Ginsburg Center for Studying Health System Change Washington, DC
Amanda Glassman Center for Global Development Washington, DC
Sherry Glied New York University Wagner School of Public Service New York, NY
Howard H. Goldman University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore, MD
Andrew Goodman‐Bacon Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN
Ingrid Gould Ellen New York University New York, NY
Jessica Greene University of Oregon Eugene, OR
Emily A. Greenfield Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick, NJ
Scott L. Greer University of Michigan School of Public Health Ann Arbor, MI
Sue Grinnell Public Health Institute Oakland, CA
Colleen M. Grogan University of Chicago Chicago, IL
Michael K. Gusmano Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ
Daniel Hartung Oregon State University Portland, OR
Romana Hasnain‐Wynia Denver Health Denver, CO
Mark Hellowell University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, Scotland
Deirdre Hennessy Statistics Canada Ottawa, Canada
Daniel Hindman Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore, MD
Helen Hogan London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine London, England
Michael F. Hogan Hogan Health Solutions Delmar, NY
James S. House University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
Steven Joffe University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Philadelphia, PA
Geoffrey Joyce University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA
Jack Kalbfleisch University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
Panos Kanavos London School of Economics and Political Science London, England
Genevieve P. Kanter University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Philadelphia, PA
Sheryl Kataoka University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA
Michelle C. Kegler Emory University Rollins School of Public Health Atlanta, GA
Ann Keller University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA
Alene Kennedy‐Hendricks Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, MD
Stefan G. Kertesz The University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, AL
Aaron S. Kesselheim Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School Boston, MA
David A. Kindig University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Madison, WI
Howard Koh Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Boston, MA
Dustin Krutsinger University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Philadelphia, PA
Margot Kushel University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA
Margaret Kyle Mines ParisTech Paris, France
Keren Ladin Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, MA
Jeanne Lambrew The Century Foundation Washington, DC
Christopher Langston Archstone Foundation Long Beach, CA
Paula M. Lantz University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Ann Arbor, MI
Jessica Lapinski Duke University School of Medicine Durham, NC
Marsha Lillie‐Blanton The George Washington University Washington, DC
Eric Lofgren Washington State University Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health Pullman, WA
Scott M. Lynch Princeton University Princeton, NJ
David G. Marrero University of Arizona Health Sciences Tucson, AZ
Carl May University of Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Dennis McCarty Oregon Health & Science University Portland, OR
Nancy McCall Mathematica Washington, DC
Mark McClellan Duke University Durham, NC
K. John McConnell Oregon Health & Science University Portland, OR
John E. McDonough Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Boston, MA
Beth McGinty Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, MD
Ateev Mehrotra University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA
Dara D. Mendez University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health Pittsburgh, PA
J. Lloyd Michener Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC
Harold D. Miller Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform Pittsburgh, PA
Susan L. Moffitt Brown University Providence, RI
Maria Monroe‐Devita University of Washington School of Medicine Seattle, WA
Nancy Morrow‐Howell Washington University in St. Louis, Brown School of Social Work St. Louis, MO
Peter Muennig Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health New York, NY
David B. Muhlestein Leavitt Partners, LLC Salt Lake City, UT
Becky Naumann University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC
Marion Nestle New York University New York, NY
Len Nichols George Mason University College of Health and Human Services Fairfax, VA
Keith C. Norris UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine Los Angeles, CA
Don Nutbeam University of Sydney Sydney, Australia
Christopher Ojeda The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Knoxville, TN
Stephen T. Parente University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN
Craig Pollack Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, MD
Harold Pollack University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration Chicago, IL
Karen Pollitz Kaiser Family Foundation Washington, DC
Jennifer L. Pomeranz New York University College of Global Health New York, NY
Samuel Preston University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
Enola Proctor Washington University in St. Louis, Brown School of Social Work St. Louis, MO
Jonathan Purtle Drexel University Philadelphia, PA
Julie Ralston Aoki Public Health Law Center Saint Paul, MN
James D. Reschovsky Mathematica Washington, DC
Diane Rittenhouse University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA
Lisa Robinson Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Boston, MA
Thomas G. Rundall University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health Berkeley, CA
Carolyn M. Rutter RAND Corporation Santa Monica, CA
Adam Sacarny Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health New York, NY
Somava Saha (Soma Stout) Institute for Healthcare Improvement Boston, MA
Brendan Saloner Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, MD
Robert S. Saunders Duke University Durham, NC
Nicholas K. Schiltz Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH
Harald Schmidt University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
Jason L. Schwartz University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
Marlene Schwartz University of Connecticut Hartford, CT
Joshua Sharfstein Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, MD
Mina Silberberg Duke University School of Medicine Durham, NC
Frank Sloan Duke University Durham, NC
Jonathan M. Snowden Oregon Health & Science University Portland, OR
Shoshanna Sofaer Baruch College, City University of New York New York, NY
Zirui Song Harvard Medical School Boston, MA
Kayte Spector‐Bagdady University of Michigan Medical School Ann Arbor, MI
Robyn I. Stone Leading Age Washington, DC
S.V. Subramanian Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MA
Lauren A. Taylor Harvard Business School Boston, MA
Eric J. Thomas The University of Texas McGovern Medical School Houston, TX
Kathleen C. Thomas University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Eshelman School of Pharmacy Chapel Hill, NC
Jack Tsai Yale School of Medicine West Haven, CT
Marianne Udow‐Phillips Center for Health and Research Transformation Ann Arbor, MI
Jürgen Unützer University of Washington Seattle, WA
Joshua R. Vest Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health Indianapolis, IN
Michael Von Korff Group Health Cooperative Seattle, WA
Timothy Waidmann The Urban Institute Washington, DC
Anya Rader Wallack Brown University School of Public Health Providence, RI
Nina Wallerstein University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM
Katie M. White University of Minnesota School of Public Health Minneapolis, MN
Thomas Wickizer University of Washington Seattle, WA
Gail R. Wilensky Project Hope Millwood, VA
Janelle Winters University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
Y. Tony Yang George Mason University Fairfax, VA