Randall R. Bovbjerg, J.D.

Principal Research Associate, Health Policy Center
The Urban Institute

Randall R. Bovbjerg, J.D., (pronounced Bo' berg), is principal research associate at the Health Policy Center of the Urban Institute and an expert in medical injury, malpractice and reform policy issues. The Urban Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan policy research and educational organization established to examine the social, economic and governance problems facing the nation.

Bovbjerg has 30 years of experience in health policy. He makes frequent presentations to public and private policymakers and has authored articles for more than 100 publications, including chapter six of the 1999 Institute of Medicine report, To Err is Human. Before joining the Urban Institute, he was an insurance regulator in Massachusetts.

Bovbjerg is a member of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization's Tort Resolution and Injury Prevention Roundtable. He has also served on the D.C. Health Care Reform Commission, has been an editor for Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, a peer reviewer, and has taught courses for Duke University in Durham, N.C., Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Bovbjerg received his law degree from Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., and his bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of Chicago.