Peter Arno
Senior Fellow and Director of Health Policy Research
Peter S. Arno is a health economist, and a Distinguished Fellow at the City University of New York Institute for Health Equity. He is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and serves on the Board of Directors of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare Foundation. He was the founding director of the Center for Long Term Care Research & Policy and the doctoral program in health policy at New York Medical College and director of the Division of Public Health and Policy Research in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center. He received his doctorate in economics at the New School for Social Research. His 1992 book, Against the Odds: The Story of AIDS Drug Development, Politics & Profits, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
Dr. Arno’s recent work includes studies on the impact of Social Security and the Earned Income Tax Credit on population health, food insecurity and the elderly; economics of caregiving; social and geographic determinants of obesity; and regulation and pricing practices of the pharmaceutical industry.
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Recent Research
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Assessing the Medicare Crisis Proposal
May 2020
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Economic Analysis of Medicare for All
November 2018
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Economic Analysis of the Healthy California Single-Payer Health Care Proposal (SB-562)
May 2017
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Improving Population Health by Reducing Poverty: New York's Earned Income Tax Credit
April 2017
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Impact of Raising Eligibility Age for Medicare
January 2017
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Advancing Equitable Approaches to Childhood Obesity Prevention
December 2016
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Overlooked but Not Forgotten: Social Security Lifts Millions More Children Out of Poverty
July 2016
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The Earned Income Tax Credit's Impact on Health
November 2015
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Rising Food Insecurity and Conservative Policy in the US: Impact on the Elderly
March 2015
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Improving Population Health by Reducing Poverty: New York
February 2015