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David Bloom

David E. Bloom Biography

Current Institution name
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Date of PhD completion
1981
Institution where PhD was completed
Princeton University
Research area
Education
Gender
Race

David E. Bloom is Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Bloom is a labor and health economist and a demographer. His current research focuses mainly on the interplay of health, demographics, and economic growth, and on health technology assessment. Bloom serves as Director of Harvard’s Value of Vaccination Research Network funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He is also the co-founder and co-editor of Elsevier’s Journal of the Economics of Ageing, and co-editor of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Ageing. Dr. Bloom has published over 600 articles, book chapters, and books. In April 2005, Bloom was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2015, Bloom was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.