The Eugene Garfield  Award for  Economic Impact of Medical and Health Research
was established in 2002.   The award is given each year to individuals who distinguish themselves through research publications demonstrating the economic impact of medical and health research.
The winners  are .....
 
 
2009 Darius N. Lakdawalla, Ph.D. and co-authors  Dana P. Goldman, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Neeraj Sood, Robert J. Lempert, Ze Cong, Han de Vries, Italo Gutierrez 

Award Winning Paper : "U.S. Pharmaceutical Policy in a Global Marketplace," published in Health Affairs  Vol. 28, No. 1, January/February 2009. 
(Full text available at Rand with permission from Health Affairs : http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/2009/RAND_RP1380.pdf

Biographical Information:
Darius N. Lakdawalla, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Director of Research, Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics
2008 Amitabh Chandra and Douglas O. Staiger
Award Winning Paper : Chandra, A; Staiger, DO. "Productivity spillovers in health care: Evidence from the treatment of heart attacks " Journal of Political Economy 115(1):103-140   February 2007. 
(Full text available at : http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/512249) 

Biographical Information:
Amitabh Chandra, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of  Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.  Visiting professor at Dartmouth. Faculty Research Fellow at the IZA Institute in Bonn, Germany, and at the National Bureau of Economic Research. 
Douglas O. Staiger, Ph.D.  John French Professor in Economics, Dartmouth College.  Research Associate,National Bureau of Economic Research. 
2007 Tomas J. Philipson and Anupam B. Jena  - Dr. Garfield's comments
Award Winning Paper : Tomas J. Philipson and Anupam B. Jena "Who Benefits from New Medical Technologies? Estimates of Consumer and Producer Surpluses for HIV/AIDS Drugs," Forum for Health Economics & Policy: Vol. 9: Iss. 2 (Biomedical Res and the Economy), 
Article 3., 2006 
http://www.bepress.com/fhep/biomedical_research/3

Biographical Information:
Tomas J. Philipson, Ph.D.Professor in the Harris School and a faculty member in the 
Department of Economics and the Law School, University of Chicago, IL. 
Anupam B. Jena, Ph.D. University of Chicago - Department of Economics, Chicago, IL
2006
Amy Finklestein - Dr;. Garfield's comments
Award Winning Paper : ?Static and Dynamic Effects of Health Policy,? Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 119, No. 2, Pages 527-564, May 2004.  Posted Online Mar. 13, 2006.(doi:10.1162/0033553041382166) 
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/0033553041382166

Biographical Information:
Amy Finkelstein, Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
Cambridge MA 02142 
2005 Kevin Murphy and Robert H. Topel - Dr. Garfied's comments
Award Winning Study : ?The Economic Value of Medical Research? Chapter 2 from the book ... 
Measuring the Gains from Medical Research: An Economic Approach
Editors -  Kevin M. Murphy, Robert H. Topel, University of Chicago Press, pgs.263,  2003 

Biographical Information
Kevin Murphy, Ph.D., George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, 
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Recent recipient of a 2005 MacArthur Foundation ?genius grant.? 
Robert H. Topel, Ph.D.,  Isidore Brown and Gladys J. Brown Professor in Urban and Labor Economics, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
2004
Sherry Glied - Dr. Garfield's comments
Award Winning Paper : Glied, Sherry A. "The Value of Reductions in Child Injury 
Mortality in the U.S." 
 NBER Working Paper No. W7204. July 1999 
http://ssrn.com/abstract=170791

Biographical Information :
Sherry Glied, Ph.D, Professor and Chair of the Division of Health Policy and 
Management of Columbia University's Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health 
2003 David Cutler- Dr. Garfield's comments
Award Winning Paper : "The Return to Biomedical Research: Treatment and Behavioral Effects", 
in Robert Topel and Kevin Murphy, eds., Measuring the Gains from Medical Research, Chicago: 
University of Chicago Press, 2003. pdf available

Biographical Information:
David Cutler, PhD, Professor of Economics, Harvard University.
2002 David Meltzer - Dr. Garfield's comments
Award Winning Paper : ?Addressing Uncertainty in Medical Cost-effectiveness Analysis: Implications of Expected Utility Maximization for Methods to Perform Sensitivity Analysis and the Use of Cost-effectiveness 
Analysis to Set Priorities for Medical Research? Journal of Health Economics, 20(1):109-129, 2001
MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine and Economics, University of  Chicago. 
http://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/jhecon/v20y2001i1p109-129.html

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David Meltzer, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine and Economics,  University of  Chicago.