Daniel M. Fox, Adjunct Professor

Daniel M. Fox has been President of the Milbank Memorial Fund since 1990. The Fund, established in New York in 1905, is an endowed foundation that works with decision makers to bring the best available evidence and experience to bear on health care and population health. Fox has served in state government (Massachusetts and New York), as an advisor to and staff member of three United States federal agencies and as a faculty member and administrator at Harvard University and then at the Health Sciences Center of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Social Insurance and the Council on Foreign Relations. He earned his A.B., A.M, and Ph.D. at Harvard University.

In addition to articles in journals of health services and policy, social science and history, Fox has written Power and Illness: The Failure and Future of American Health Policy (1993 and 1995); Engines of Culture (1963 and 1994); The Discovery of Abundance (1967 and 2002); Economists and Health Care (1979); Health Politics, Health Policies: The Experience of Britain and America 1911-1965 (1986); and Photographing Medicine: Images and Power in Britain and America since 1840 (1988). He co edited AIDS: The Burdens of History (1988); AIDS: The Making of a Chronic Disease (1992); Five States That Could Not Wait: Lessons for Health Reform from Florida, Hawaii, Minnesota, Oregon and Vermont (1994); Home-Based Care for a New Century (1996); and Treating Drug Abusers Effectively (1996).