Brad Herring, associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, has been named the new Forrest D. McKerley Endowed Chair in Health Economics. It is a joint appointment in Paul College and the School of Health and Human Services and Herring will hold the rank of professor with tenure. UNH's McKerley Chair was established in 2000 through the generosity of Forrest D. McKerley, who graduated from the university in 1957 with a B.S. in business administration. McKerley was involved in the health care field for most of his career.
Herring's research primarily focuses on several economic and policy issues related to health insurance markets and healthcare reform, including the dynamics of coverage within the employment-based and individual health insurance markets and the effects of health insurance market concentration.
Herring also devotes a portion of his research on interdisciplinary projects into certain social determinants of health, specifically neighborhood poverty and the food environment. Prior to joining the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2007, he was on the faculty at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health. Herring’s policy experience includes serving as a Senior Staff Economist with the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2006-2007 and serving as the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Maryland Health Insurance Plan from 2011-2016.
Herring received his Ph.D. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and completed a two-year RWJF Health Policy fellowship at Yale University.
