Ken Thorpe Media

Kenneth E. Thorpe, PhD, is Robert W. Woodruff Professor and Chair in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health. He also serves as the executive director of Emory’s Institute of Advanced Policy Solutions (IAPS) and director of the Institute’s Center for Entitlement Reform. He is a frequent national presenter and media resource on issues of health care financing, insurance, obesity’s affect on health care costs, and health care reform.

In the News

• ABC News
  
  • "Will Health Care Overhaul Survive Republican Control of the House?"
• Boston Globe
  • "Major health care changes won’t take place until 2014"
  • "First lady tackling child obesity"

Publications/Reports

• Weighty Matters: How Obesity Drives Poor Health and Health Spending in the U.S.
• Coordinated End-of-Life Care Improves Wellbeing and Produces Cost Savings

Ken Thorpe Blog

• Ken Thorpe's Health Reform Blog (Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease)

Related Information

• "Controlling Chronic Conditions" (Emory Health, Summer 2009)
• "A Weighty Matter" (Public Health, Spring 2010)
• "Comprehensive health care in the U.S.?" (Emory Health, Spring 2008)