In memoriam: Stuart Schweitzer, 80, internationally renowned health economist

Stuart Schweitzer, longtime professor of health policy and management in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, died of cancer Jan. 5. He was 80.Schweitzer taught at UCLA beginning in 1976, when he became the first faculty member in the public health school who had formal economics training. Forty-two years later, he retired, having served in a variety of leadership positions, including division and department chair and vice chair. He was esteemed for his genuine care about his students ’ well-being and was an exceptionally kind mentor.Esteemed across the globe for his scholarship in the field of health economics, Schweitzer was widely sought for his expertise about pharmaceutical policy. The first edition of his treatise “Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy” was published in 1997 and favorably reviewed by the New England Journal of Medicine. The popularity of the book continued through its third edition, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2018. He wrote nine books, 28 book chapters, and co-authore d more than 70 peer-reviewed articles and 50 additional publications.Schweitzer, who also researched the correlations between pharmaceutical pricing and technology adoption, and knowledge transfer from academic to industrial and delivery settings, served as an adviser and consultant to the National Institutes of Health and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and its predecessors. Schweitzer also was a senior staff member of the U.S. President ’...
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