Michael R. Reich

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Michael R. Reich
Born (1950-05-29) May 29, 1950 (age 73)
Akron, Ohio, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Yale University (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.)
Awards Order of the Rising Sun
Scientific career
Institutions Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston

Michael R. Reich is an American political scientist and the Taro Takemi Research Professor of International Health Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts. [1] a specialist in the political analysis of health reform, pharmaceutical policy and access to medicines, and health policy in Japan and Mexico.

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Biography

Reich received three degrees from Yale University: B.A. in molecular biophysics and biochemistry in 1974, M.A. in East Asian Studies (Japan) in 1975, and Ph.D. in political science in 1981. He joined the faculty of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 1983, and became Director of the Takemi Program in 1988, a tenured Professor in International Health Policy in 1992, Chair of Department of Population and International Health from 1997-2001, and Director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies from 2001-05. He served as Taro Takemi Professor of International Health Policy from 1997-2016.

Work

Reich has published on public health policy and political analysis, including access to medicines and pharmaceutical policy, [2] health policy in Japan, and the political economy of health reform. He co-authored the first book in English on Japan’s environmental problems, Island of Dreams: Environmental Crisis in Japan, in 1974. [3] His next book was Six Lives/Six Deaths: Portraits from Modern Japan, written with Robert Jay Lifton and Shuichi Kato, and was published in Japanese in 1977 and in English in 1979. [4] [5] His 2004 book Getting Health Reform Right: A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity, co-authored with Marc J. Roberts, William C. Hsiao, and Peter Berman, has been used around the world to guide reform processes and teach policymakers how to manage health reform. [6] In 2014, he became founding co-Editor-in-Chief of the new journal Health Systems & Reform.

Reich has also been engaged in public health in Mexico, including two terms as visiting professor at the National Institute of Public Health in Cuernavaca (2005-6 and 2015) and co-teaching (with Martin Lajous) over the past five years an intensive three-week Harvard field course in Mexico on the national health reform.

In his teaching, he has promoted case-based learning. He has written many teaching cases related to global health policy on topics ranging from passing health reform in West Africa to partnering for malaria control in Zambia, to adopting national pharmaceutical reform, to reproductive health policy in Guatemala.

The Takemi Program in International Health

Reich established the Takemi Program in International Health in 1983, a novel mid-career research and advanced training program at the Harvard School of Public Health. The program was named after Dr. Taro Takemi. Since its establishment in 1983, the program has hosted over 290 mid-career researchers (Takemi Fellows) from 56 countries. [7] [8]

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  1. ↑ "Michael Reich". Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
  2. ↑ (With Laura J. Frost) Access: How do Good Health Technologies Get to Poor People in Poor Countries? Cambridge, MA: Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2008.
  3. ↑ "Island of Dreams: Environmental Crisis in Japan". Foreign Affairs (January 1976). January 28, 2009.
  4. ↑ Kiefer, Christie W. (1979). "Reviewed Work: Six Lives, Six Deaths. Portraits from Modern Japan. by Robert Jay Lifton, Shuichi Kato, Michael R. Reich". Monumenta Nipponica. Sophia University. 34 (4): 511–513. doi:10.2307/2384117. JSTOR   2384117.
  5. ↑ Sims, R. L. (1980). "Robert J. Lifton, Shūichi Katō, and Michael R. Reich: Six lives, six deaths; portraits from modern Japan. xiii, 305 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979. £12.20". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 43 (3): 629–630. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00137917. S2CID   163046218.
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  8. ↑ "Time for thinking big". Harvard Public Health Magazine. July 28, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Michael Reich honored for advancing public health in Japan". Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. April 30, 2015.
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