Austin Frakt, PhD
The Joint Commission
Titles and Affiliations:
- Vice President and Chief Research Officer with the Joint Commission
- Associate Director of the Partnered Evidence-Based Policy Resource Center at the VA Boston Healthcare System
- Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Editor-in-Chief of Health Services Research
Austin Frakt, Ph.D., is Vice President and Chief Research Officer with the Joint Commission. He is also Associate Director of the Partnered Evidence-Based Policy Resource Center at the VA Boston Healthcare System, Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of Health Services Research.
Dr. Frakt is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the evidence-based health policy blog The Incidental Economist. He also serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Managed Care and is a member of the New England Comparative Effectiveness Public Advisory Council.
Dr. Frakt received his Ph.D. from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in statistical and applied mathematics and his bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in Applied and Engineering Physics.
