Marmor, Theodore R.

Theodore (Ted) R. Marmor is Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Political Science at Yale University, where he taught from 1979 to 2007. Currently he is an adjunct professor of public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His specialization is the contemporary welfare state in North America and Europe, with particular expertise on healthcare policy. His research on healthcare has yielded a national and international reputation as the most recognized academician in healthcare policy and politics. Marmor's first book, The Politics of Medicare (1970), is a classic in the field. The second edition of The Politics of Medicare (2000) traces developments in healthcare policy since the enactment of Medicare in 1965. In the decades since Medicare was enacted, Marmor has been a prominent analyst of health policy and advocate of universal healthcare.

Born in New York City on February 24, 1939, he received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1960; attended Wadham College, Oxford from 1961 to 1962; and then returned to Harvard, earning his doctoral degree in 1966. Marmor began his academic career as an assistant [Page 714]professor of political science and was promoted to associate professor at the University of Wisconsin during 1967 to 1970, then joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota (1970–1973) and later the University of Chicago (1973–1979) before going to Yale University in 1979.

In 1966, Marmor was special assistant to Wilbur Cohen, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; he served as associate dean at the School of Public Affairs during his tenure at the University of Minnesota; and at Yale University, he chaired the board of its Center for Health Services. He was a member of President Carter's Commission on the National Agenda for the 1980s and a senior policy advisor to Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale during the 1984 election campaign. Marmor has testified before congressional committees about healthcare reform, social security, and welfare policy in addition to acting as an expert witness in health-related judicial proceedings, including the constitutionality of the Canada Health Act, disputes over Medicare, and U.S. asbestos litigation.

Marmor serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice; the Journal of Health Services Research and Policy; the International Journal of Health Planning and Management; and the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law. He was a centennial visiting professor at the London School of Economics (2000–2003) and has been a fellow or visiting fellow with the Australian National University, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, All Souls College at Oxford University, and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. During 1993 to 2003, he was director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Post-doctoral Program (Medical Care and Social Sciences).

Marmor has authored or coauthored 13 books, nearly 200 scholarly articles and book chapters, and more than 100 op-ed pieces in magazines and newspapers here and abroad. His scholarship has appeared in many prestigious journals, including the American Political Science Review, the Michigan Law Review, the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, and the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

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