David Slusky

David Slusky is a Professor of Economics at the University of Kansas, where he is also the Chair of the Department of Speech-Language-Hearing, a Professor of Population Health (by courtesy), and faculty affiliate of the Institute for Policy & Social Research.

His research focuses are access to health care, health disparities, and social safety net, and has been published in top journals in public policy, economics, medicine, and public health, including the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, the Journal of Human Resources, the Journal of Health Economics, Pediatrics, and the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Professor Slusky also serves as the Executive Director of the American Society of Health Economists and as a co-editor at the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at IZA - Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn, Germany, and has Special Sworn Status with the United States Census. Professor Slusky. He has previously been a visiting researcher at Stockholm School of Economics, Uppsala University, and Stockholm University, and was a Health Policy Advisor for Pete Buttigieg for President.

He is the recipient of the Byron T. Shutz Award for Excellence in Teaching and the De-Min and Chin-Sha Wu Research Award, and delivered the 2020 Seaver Lecture for the Humanities Program, all at University of Kansas. He has presented on economic effects of Medicaid expansion to the Kansas Governor’s Council on Tax Reform and testified on it before the Kansas Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee. He’s a frequent guest on podcasts and radio, including on Freakonomics, M.D., and on NPR Morning Edition.

Professor Slusky holds an undergraduate degree from Yale University, where he doubled majored in physics and international studies, and masters and doctoral degrees in economics from Princeton University.