Bryan Dowd, Ph.D, is Mayo Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Division of Health Services Research and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota.  He has been at the University of Minnesota since 1980 and served as interim division head from 1998 to 1999.  He has published over 100 articles, books and book chapters on his primary research interests, which include employment-based health insurance, Medicare policy and evaluation of non-experimental data.  He is the recipient of three AcademyHealth Article-of-the-Year Awards.  He received his Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis from the University of Pennsylvania, a Masters of Science from Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology.  He teaches health services research methods and health policy analysis in the doctoral programs in the Division.

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