Katherine Swartz , Professor of Health Economics and Policy, Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health, is the Program Director.

The Program also has an Executive Committee, composed of the following faculty, who provide advice to the Director and help select the Scholars:

Michael Chernew is Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, with a focus on the impact of managed care on the health care marketplace, health care cost growth, and the use of medical technology; determinants of patient choice of hospital and the impact of health plan performance measures on employee and employer selection of health plans..

Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government and Director of the Center for American Political Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.

Jennifer Hochschild , Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Harvard College Professor. She also holds lectureships in the Kennedy School of Government and the Graduate School of Education.

Gary King is the David Florence Professor of Government. He also serves as Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, which houses the Scholars Program offices.

Thomas McGuire, Professor of Health Economics in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on the design and impact of health care payment systems, the economics of health care disparities, and the economics of mental health policy.

Peter Marsden, Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of Sociology and Harvard College Professor. His research interests are centered on social organization, especially formal organizations and social networks. He has ongoing interests in social science methodology and in the sociology of medicine.

Joseph P. Newhouse is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management. He is an economist and holds faculty appointments in three schools ( Harvard Medical School , the Kennedy School of Government, and the Harvard School of Public Health) as well as in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.

Mary Waters, M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, specializing in the study of immigration, inter-group relations, the formation of racial and ethnic identity among the children of immigrants, and the challenges of measuring race and ethnicity.