Dana P Goldman Email & Phone Number

Dana P. Goldman is University Professor of Public Policy, Pharmacy, and Economics and the Founding Director of the Schaeffer Institute for Public Policy & Government Service at the University of the Southern California. He founded the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, establishing it as one of the world’s premier health economics research groups. He also served as Dean of the USC Price School of Public Policy from 2020 to 2024.Dr. Goldman is the author of more than 350 articles with more than 23,000 citations. He pioneered a “Netflix model” to improve access to treatment and the benefits of lower copayments for the chronically ill. He serves (or has served) as a health policy advisor to the Congressional Budget Office, California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, Covered California, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Institute, and GRAIL. He has been awarded more than $50 million in research funding from NIH. His research is regularly featured in outlets like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Stat, The Economist, NBC Nightly News, PBS NewsHour, CNN, NPR, and other media. Dr. Goldman is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, National Academy of Social Insurance, and National Academy of Public Administration — three of his field’s highest honors. He is a past recipient of the USC Associates Award, Alice Hersh Emerging Leader Award, MetLife Silver Scholar Award, NIHCM Research Award, Robert Biller Award—among other distinctions. In 2024, USC appointed him University Professor “for his decades of excellence as a policy leader and champion of interdisciplinary collaboration.”Dr. Goldman co-founded EntityRisk, an AI startup producing software to expedite and improve health economics outcomes research, and Precision Health Economics, a consultancy sold in 2015. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Price Philanthropies and previously held the Distinguished Chair in Health Economics at RAND, where he directed the health economics program. He serves as a nonresident senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, and research associate with the National Bureau for Economic Research. He graduated B.A. summa cum laude from Cornell University and earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.