John E. McDonough, PhD, MPA, Director, Health Care for All
John McDonough is the executive director of Health Care for All; Massachusetts' leading consumer health advocacy organization. From 1998 through 2003, he was an associate professor at the Heller School of Brandeis University. 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. In 1996, he led the successful campaign for passage of health access legislation to cover uninsured children, funded by new tobacco taxes; legislation which served as a model for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). He teaches at the Harvard School of Public Health. His articles have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs and other journals. He has written two books, Experiencing Politics: A Legislator's Stories of Government and Health Care (published by the University of California Press and the Milbank Fund in 2000), and Interests, Ideas, and Deregulation: The Fate of Hospital Rate Setting (published by the University of Michigan Press in 1998). He received a doctorate in public health from the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan in 1996 and a master's in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard in 1990. He serves on the board of directors of Families USA, Community Catalyst, Health Law Advocates, the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, Massachusetts Health Quality Partners, the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, and MassPRO.