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AcademyHealth Methods Council Members
 José J. Escarce, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, where he serves as an Associate Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, and Senior Natural Scientist at RAND. He holds a B.A. in physics from Princeton, M.A. in physics from Harvard, and M.D. and Ph.D. in health economics from the University of Pennsylvania. His research has examined the effects of market forces on access, costs, and quality; racial and socioeconomic disparities in medical care; and medical technology adoption. Recently, he has begun studies on immigrant health and on how neighborhood environments affect health. In 2005, he received a Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award to assess cohort effects on the health of Mexican immigrants to the U.S. Dr. Escarce is a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisers and the U.S. Census Bureau’s Advisory Committee on the Hispanic Population. He previously served on DHHS’s National Advisory Council for Health Care Policy, Research, and Evaluation. He has also been active in the National Academies, serving on the Institute of Medicine Committee on the National Quality Report on Health Care Delivery, the IOM Committee on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, and the National Research Council Panel on Hispanics in the U.S., among others. He currently serves on the IOM Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice and the IOM Roundtable on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health. Dr. Escarce is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Health Services Research, one of the official journals of AcademyHealth.
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