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FDA's Strategies for Improving Health Care

Mark McClellan PhD '93: March 20, 2003; Running Time: 00:45:24

About the Lecture

About the Lecture

The FDA is a critical consumer protection agency, which assures the safety of foods and cosmetics, and the safety and efficacy of pharmaceuticals, biological products and medical devices - products representing roughly 25 cents out of every dollar in U.S. consumer spending.

Lecture Details

Location: Harvard Club

About the Speaker

Mark McClellan PhD '93

Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies
Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, Brookings Institution

Mark McClellan served as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and prior to that, as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration beginning in November 2002. During 2001 and 2002, McClellan served in the White House as a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and was a senior policy director for health care and related economic issues. From 1998-99, he was deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for economic policy, where he supervised economic analysis and policy development on a wide range of domestic policy issues.

McClellan also held a position as associate professor of economics at Stanford University. He was also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Additionally, he was a member of the National Cancer Policy Board of the National Academy of Sciences, associate editor of the Journal of Health Economics, and co-principal investigator of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a longitudinal study of the health and economic well-being of older Americans.

McClellan is a Member of the Institute of Medicine . He earned his M.D. from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT.