John A. Romley

Biography

John A. Romley, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California, an Economist at the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, and an Adjunct Economist at the RAND Corporation. Dr. Romley’s research focuses on health care quality and costs, hospital markets, environmental health disparities, and pharmaceutical policy and economics. Dr. Romley’s work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Health Affairs, Health Services Research, and other prominent journals. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco Chronicle. Dr. Romley is the managing editor of Forum for Health Economics & Policy. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Economics at Stanford University, and holds Bachelor’s degrees in Economics and English (Phi Beta Kappa) from Amherst College.

Selected Publications

• Zhou, B., Zissimopoulos, J., Nadeem, H., Crane, M. A., Goldman, D., & Romley, J. A. (2021). Association between exenatide use and incidence of Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions, 7(1), e12139.
• Romley, J. A., Xie, Z., Chiou, T. et al. (2019). Extended-Release Formulation and Medication Adherence. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 35, 354–356.
• Mulligan, K., Romley, J., Choksy, S., & Ishitani, C. (2019). Hospital System Participation and Hospital Spending. Schaeffer Center White Paper.