CU to Host Economics Lecture Focused on Health Care Reform
Bloomsburg, PA (04/06/2026) — MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber will give a lecture, "Health Care Reform: The Past, Present and Future," on Tuesday, April 14, at 2 p.m. in Commonwealth University-Bloomsburg's Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall.
The lecture, part of CU's Economics Lecture Series, will also be live-streamed, and the link will be available at www.commonwealthu.edu/economics-lectures.
Gruber is the Ford Professor and Chair of Economics at MIT, where he's taught since 1992. A nationally recognized expert in health care policy, he has shaped major reforms, including Massachusetts' health care overhaul and the Affordable Care Act.
He has held leadership roles at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the American Society of Health Economists, and is a member of several prestigious academic societies. Dr. Gruber has authored over 180 research articles and several influential books, including Public Finance and Public Policy, Health Care Reform, and Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream.
His work has earned him numerous honors, including the ASHE Inaugural Medal, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and recognition as one of the most powerful and innovative thinkers in U.S. health care.
For more information about the lectures, contact Mehdi Haririan, professor of economics, at 570-389-4682.
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