Michael Borowitz is a public health physician (M.D., M.P.H.) and health economist (Ph.D.). He currently works as a senior health economist at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He started his career working on U.S. health reform first for Senator Teddy Kennedy in the Senate Office on Health and subsequently at the Health Care Financing Administration, where he worked on the reform of payment to physicians. He left the US government, when health reform collapsed during the Clinton Administration. He was self-exiled to Siberia, and ran a large USAID health reform project in Soviet Central Asia based in Alma Ata Kazakhstan for 5 year. He subsequently moved to the UK working for the UK Department of International Development on HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, and health reform, and then to the World Bank working on China and Indonesia. A couple of years ago, he moved to the UK Department of Health to work on reform of the NHS, and also back to health systems in developed countries. He is a long-standing interest in inequalities in health and public policies to address social determinants of health.
