Michael Gusmano PhD

Michael K. Gusmano is a Professor of Health Policy at the College of Health at Lehigh University. He also serves as the Associate Dean for Academic Programs, and the Director of the Center for Ethics at Lehigh. Along with his appointment at Lehigh, Dr. Gusmano is a research scholar at The Hastings Center. His scholarship focuses on health and social policy in the United States and internationally. His work, with Dr. Frank J. Thompson, on the role of executive federalism in the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), won the best article award from Publius: The Journal of Federalism. He has published five peer-reviewed books, two online casebooks, six special issues of journals, and more than 200 scholarly and professional articles.

Dr. Gusmano is the Co-Director of the World Cities Project (WCP). WCP represents the first effort to compare the performance of health, social, and long-term care systems in Hong Kong, London, Moscow, New Delhi, New York City, Paris, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, and Tokyo. The project compares health status and quality of life, informal support and social networks, health and social services, and long-term care -- both within and among these cities. The first book from this project Growing Older in World Cities: New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo (Vanderbilt University Press 2006), explored how cities are addressing the needs of their aging populations. The second book from the WCP, Health Care in World Cities (Johns Hopkins University Press 2010), documents the implications of national and local healthcare policies for access to care in New York, London, and Paris.