Thomas G. McGuire

Thomas G. McGuire, Ph.D., is professor of health economics in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on the design and impact of health care payment systems, the economics of health care disparities, the economics of mental health policy, and drug regulation and payment. McGuire has contributed to the theory of physician, hospital, and health plan payment. His research on health care disparities includes developing approaches to defining and measuring disparities. For more than 35 years, McGuire has conducted academic and policy research on the economics of mental health. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.