MIT Sloan Alumni Online: Professor Joseph Doyle

Jackie Selby, EMBA ’21, hosts a conversation with Professor Joseph Doyle, Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management and Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative regarding his research on healthcare economics, quality and food as medicine. Doyle will also discuss initiatives of the MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative and MIT HEALS more broadly.

Joseph Doyle is the Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management and Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

He studies public economics in the areas of healthcare and child welfare. His healthcare research investigates sources of value and waste in the U.S. healthcare system to inform policies that improve both quality and cost-effectiveness. He conducts similar investigations into foster care and juvenile justice policies and practices that can improve child and family wellbeing.

Doyle partners with major healthcare providers, payers—including large employers—and child welfare agencies to conduct randomized controlled trials that test the effectiveness of program redesigns. He is Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Initiative for Health Systems Innovation, Co-Chair of the Health Sector of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), and Co-Principal Investigator of the NBER Roybal Center for Behavior Change in Health. 

He earned a BS from Cornell University and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.