Ep. 34: John McDonough is a professor of public health practice at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a former Massachusetts legislator.

Between 2008 and 2010, he served as a senior advisor on national health reform to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. During that time, he worked on the development and passage of the Affordable Care Act.

Between 2003 and 2008, he served as executive director of Health Care for All, Massachusetts' leading consumer health advocacy organization, where he played a key role in passage and implementation of the 2006 Massachusetts health reform law. Between 1998 and 2003, he was an associate professor at the Heller School at Brandeis University and a senior associate at the Schneider Institute for Health Policy. From 1985 to 1997, he served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives where he co-chaired the Joint Committee on Health Care.

His articles have appeared in Health Affairs, the New England Journal of Medicine and other journals. He also has authored three books.

He received a doctorate in public health in 1996 from the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan and a master's in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard in 1990.

Listen now, and learn how John is an innovative leader in health care.

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