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We want to acknowledge in particular the four reviewers selected as the Outstanding Reviewers of 2021. This annual award honors reviewers who have provided high quality, thoughtful, and timely comments for the Quarterly, chosen by consensus of the editors.
Kelly Doran NYU Langone New York, NY
Arline T. Geronimus University of Michigan School of Public Health Ann Arbor, MI
John Z. Sadler UT Southwestern Dallas, TX
Brad Wright University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC
Saul Alamilla Kennesaw State University Kennesaw, GA
Luke Allen University of Oxford Oxford, England
Yukiko Asada Dalhousie University Nova Scotia, Canada
Arlene Ash University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester, MA
Katie Attwell The University of Western Australia Western Australia, Australia
Carole Elodie Aubert University of Bern Bern, Switzerland
Ge Bai Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School Baltimore, MD
Kellan E. Baker Whitman-Walker Institute Washington, DC
G. Ross Baker University of Toronto Toronto, Canada
Satchit Balsari Harvard Medical School Boston, MA
Reed Beall University of Calgary Alberta, Canada
Nancy D. Beaulieu Harvard Medical School Boston, MA
Joseph Benitez University of Kentucky Lexington, KY
Marianne Bitler University of California, Davis Davis, CA
Robert Blendon Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Boston, MA
David Blumenthal The Commonwealth Fund New York, NY
Courtney Boen The University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
Thomas Bollyky Council on Foreign Relations Washington, DC
Michel Boudreaux University of Maryland, College Park College Park, MD
Jo Ivey Boufford NYU School of Global Public Health New York, NY
Ebony Boulware Duke University School of Medicine Durham, NC
Paula Braveman University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA
Amanda Brewster University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA
Lawton Burns The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
Scott Burris Temple University Beasley School of Law Philadelphia, PA
Kent Buse The George Institute for Global Health New South Wales, Australia
Marius Busemeyer University of Konstanz Konstanz, Germany
Joel C. Cantor Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey New Brunswick, NJ
Lawrence Casalino Weill Cornell Medicine Graduate School of Medical Sciences New York, NY
Michael E. Chernew Harvard Medical School Boston, MA
Alyna Chien Harvard Medical School Teaching Hospital Boston, MA
Andrew Coburn University of Southern Maine Portland, ME
I. Glenn Cohen Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA
Lesley H. Curtis Duke University School of Medicine Durham, NC
David M. Cutler Harvard University Boston, MA
Christina Cutter University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
April Joy Damian Weitzman Institute Middletown, CT
Joe T. Darden Michigan State University East Lansing, MI
Sara Davis The Graduate Institute Geneva Geneva, Switzerland
William Dietz The George Washington University Washington, DC
Ana Diez Roux Drexel University Philadelphia, PA
Julia Dilley University of Washington Seattle, WA
Danielle Dooley Children’s National Health System Washington, DC
David Dranove Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Evanston, IL
Jaran Eriksen Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden
A. Mark Fendrick Center for Value-Based Insurance Design, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
René D. Flores The University of Chicago Chicago, IL
Erika Franklin Fowler Wesleyan University Middletown, CT
Yonah Freemark Urban Institute Washington, DC
Mark Friedberg BlueCross BlueShield of Massachusetts Boston, MA
Elena Fuentes-Afflick University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA
Shana Gadarian Syracuse University Syracuse, NY
Sandro Galea Boston University School of Public Health Boston, MA
Haley Gallo University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA
Ishani Ganguli Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston, MA
Dame Hazel Genn University College London London, England
Sarah Gensheimer Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, MD
Marco Giani King’s College London London, England
Sherry Glied New York University Wagner School of Public Service New York, NY
Joseph P. Gone Harvard University Cambridge, MA
Laura Gottlieb University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA
Michael K. Gusmano Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA
Neal Halfon University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA
Paul Halverson Indiana University School of Medicine Indianapolis, IN
Mona Hanna-Attisha Michigan State University-Hurley Children’s Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative Flint, MI
Rochelle Hanson Medical University of South Carolina Charleston, SC
Joanna Hart University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Philadelphia, PA
Timothy Hofer University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
John Holahan Urban Institute Washington, DC
Gemma Hughes University of Oxford Oxford, England
Wesley James The University of Memphis Memphis, TN
Kenton Johnston Saint Louis University St. Louis, MO
Shreya Kangovi Perelman School of Medicine Philadelphia, PA
Jennifer Karas Montez Syracuse University Syracuse, NY
Inge Kaul Hertie School of Governance Berlin, Germany
Aaron Kesselheim Harvard Medical School Boston, MA
Ilona Kickbusch Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva, Germany
Daniel Kim Stanford University Stanford, CA
Richard Kravitz University of California, Davis Davis, CA
Bruce E. Landon Harvard Medical School Boston, MA
Philip J. Landrigan Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, NY
Paula Lantz University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
Valerie Lewis University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC
Richard Lindrooth University of Colorado Denver Denver, CO
Jennifer Lloyd Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Baltimore, MD
Sana Loue Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH
Anne Markus George Washington University Washington, DC
Anne Mason University of York York, England
John E. McDonough Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Boston, MA
Thomas G. McGuire Harvard Medical School Boston, MA
Laurence McMahon University of Michigan School of Public Health Ann Arbor, MI
Neil Mehta University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
Benjamin Mason Meier University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC
Courtnee Melton-Fant The University of Memphis Memphis, TN
Edward Alan Miller University of Massachusetts Boston Boston, MA
Bobby Milstein ReThink Health Cambridge, MA
Suzanne Moffatt Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Brian Montague UCHealth Anschutz Outpatient Pavilion – Anschutz Medical Campus Aurora, CO
Diana Montoya-Williams Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA
Taryn W. Morrissey American University Washington, DC
Karoline Mortensen University of Miami Coral Gables, FL
Peter Muennig Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health New York, NY
Rourke O’Brien Yale University New Haven, CT
S. Jay Olshansky University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA
Mark V. Pauly The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
Juan Pedroza University Of California Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA
David Pellow University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA
James (Jim) M. Perrin Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA
Lyn Phillipson University of Wollongong Wollongong, Australia
Craig Pollack Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, MD
Harold Pollack The University of Chicago Chicago, IL
Ninez Ponce UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Los Angeles, CA
Nadereh Pourat UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Los Angeles, CA
Veronique Raimond Collège des économistes de la santé Paris, France
Scott Ratzan CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy New York, NY
Rachel Reid RAND Corporation Boston, MA
Julian Reif University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL
Scott Rhodes Wake Forest School of Medicine Winston-Salem, NC
Thomas Rice UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Los Angeles, CA
Josiah D. Rich Brown University Providence, RI
Elizabeth Rigby George Washington University Washington, DC
James Robinson UC Berkeley School of Public Health Berkeley, CA
Ted Rosenbaum Federal Trade Commission Washington, DC
Megan T. Sandel Boston University School of Medicine Boston, MA
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University Evanston, IL
Richard Scheffler UC Berkeley School of Public Health Berkeley, CA
Mark Schlesinger Yale University New Haven, CT
Jason Schnittker University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
Edward Schor Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health Palo Alto, CA
William Schpero Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York, NY
Amy Jo Schulz University of Michigan School of Public Health Ann Arbor, MI
Adam Shapiro Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco San Francisco, CA
Joshua Sharfstein Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, MD
Alex Shpenev Perelman School of Medicine Philadelphia, PA
Dominic A. Sisti University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Philadelphia, PA
Jonathan Skinner Dartmouth College Hanover, NH
Gillian SteelFisher Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Boston, MA
Gregory D. Stevens California State University, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA
Jeffrey W. Swanson Duke University School of Medicine Durham, NC
Katherine (Kathy) Swartz Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Boston, MA
Boyd Anthony Swinburn The University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand
Suzanne Tamang Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford, CA
Caroline P. Thirukumaran University of Rochester Medical Center Rochester, NY
Courtney Thomas Tobin UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Los Angeles, CA
Frank Thompson Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ
Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler Brown University School of Public Health Providence, RI
Erin Todd Bronchetti Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA
Ryan Treffers Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation Beltsville, MD
Jeanne Van Cleave Children’s Hospital Colorado Aurora, CO
Atheendar Venkataramani University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Philadelphia, PA
Kenneth Warner University of Michigan School of Public Health Ann Arbor, MI
Michael L. Weitzman NYU Grossman School of Medicine New York, NY
Clare Wenham London School of Economics & Political Science London, England
Christopher Whaley RAND Corporation Santa Monica, CA
Joseph White Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH
Kathleen Wilber University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA
Olivier Wouters London School of Economics & Political Science London, England