Jon Oberlander, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Social Medicine

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Dr. Oberlander received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1989 and his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 1995. He has served as a research fellow in governmental studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. and as a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in health policy at the University of California-Berkeley. Since 1997, he has been a member of the Department of Social Medicine in the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine, where he teaches health policy to first and second year medical students as well as to undergraduates. He is the author of a forthcoming book on Medicare politics, Fractured Consensus: Medicare and American Politics, 1965-2001 (University of Chicago Press). He is now working on a second book on Medicare reform, funded by The Century Foundation and tentatively titled False Promises: Why the Market Can’t Cure Medicare. His research interests include health politics, American health care policy, Medicare, state health reform, public policy for the elderly, the Oregon heath plan and market-based health policy.