Paul Howard, Ph.D. is a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Manhattan Institute's Center for Medical Progress. He is the managing editor of Medical Progress Today, a web magazine devoted to chronicling the connection between private sector investment and biomedical innovation, market-friendly public policies, and improved health.

As editor, he has written on a wide variety of medical policy issues, including medical malpractice, FDA reform, and Medicare policy initiatives. He is often quoted on health care issues and his columns have appeared in newspapers across the country, including the New York Post, Dallas Morning News, Investor's Business Daily and WashingtonPost.com. He is also a member of the Manhattan Institute's Project FDA, a committee of physician-scientists, economists, medical ethicists, and policy experts. Their purpose is to show how 21st-century technologies can help better inform FDA regulations and accelerate the drug-development and drug-approval process while maintaining drug safety.

When Paul first joined the Manhattan Institute in 2000, he worked as the Deputy Director for the Center for Legal Policy where he edited research papers, managed legal policy analyses and organized conferences.

Paul Howard received his Ph.D. in political science from Fordham University in 2003, and is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Select Media:

• WLW's "The Big Show with Bill Cunningham", 6-16-09
• Westwood One's "The Jim Bohannon Show", 6-15-09
• Talk Radio Network's "The Jerry Doyle Show", 6-15-09
• CFIF's "Freedomcast with Renee Giachino", 6-15-09
• WIBA's "Upfront with Vicki McKenna", 6-15-09
• Westwood One's "Late Nights With Jim Bohannon", 6-2-09. Click here to listen to the segment.
• CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight" , 5-11-09. Click here to watch the segment.
• Al Jazeera English. Click here to watch the segment.
• WIBA's "Upfront With Vicki McKenna", 4-29-09
• Georgia News Network's "The Martha Zoller Show", 3-23-09
• BBC Radio's "Analysis". Click here to listen to the segment.
• Fox News Channel "Special Report with Bret Baier" 3-5-09. Click here to watch the segment.
• WABC's "The Curtis Sliwa Show", 3-5-09. Click here to listen to the segment.
• WBT's "The Tara Servatius Show", Click here to listen to the segment.
• KPCC's "Airtalk with Larry Mantle", 3-3-09
• Paul Howard on PJTV, 3-02-09. to watch (subscription required)
• WNDB's "The Marc Bernier Show", 2-25-09. Click here to listen to the segment

Articles/Op-Eds:

• Public Plan: No Option For Health Reform, Investor's Business Daily, 05-19-09
• Three Modest Health Care Reforms Will Obviate Bureaucratic Quagmire, Investor's Business Daily, 05-18-09
• Big Pharma Can Save Us, Forbes.com, 04-30-09
• The Road to Rationing, The New Atlantis, 04-15-09
• A Dose of Skepticism: The Supreme Court's ruling in Wyeth is likely to unleash conflicting standards and a flood of litigation, Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal, 03-19-09
• A 'Cure' Worse Than Gangrene, Washington Times, 03-09-09
• The Doctor Is Out, Forbes, 01-02-09
• Faster Drug Adoption Saves Lives, Health Care News, 01-01-09
• The right prescription for drug safety, Washington Examiner, 12-04-08
• Free-Market Medicine, National Review Online, 08-20-08
• The case for the McCain health care plan, Dallas Morning News, 05-19-08
• Medical Drama, New York Post, 05-11-08
• Patently Obvious, The American, 04-17-08
• Both Parties Prescribe Bad Medicine In The Form Of Insurance Mandates, Investor's Business Daily, 03-28-08
• Competition Won’t Ail You, The Boston Herald, 02-09-08
• On Vaccines, Immune to Reason, Washington Post, 10-12-07
• Hillarycare's 'Groundhog Day', New York Post, 09-18-07
• Congress Is Full of SCHIP, National Review Online, 07-31-07
• A Story Michael Moore Didn't Tell, Washington Post, 07-17-07
• Paint-By-Numbers Medicine, City Journal, 07-09-07
• Pharmaceutical Litigation For All, and Safety For None, Washington Examiner, 06-19-07
• Fear is Side Effect of Drug Warnings, RealClearPolitics, 06-04-07
• Pysician, Better Thyself, New York Post, 04-29-07
• FDA Must Test Some Biologics' Generic Forms, Investor's Business Daily, 04-11-07
• Sickly States, City Journal, 04-05-07
• The End of Fatalism, The American, 03-28-07
• Thai-ing Up Innovation, National Review Online, 03-20-07
• Getting a Handle on Public Health, The American, 02-16-07
• New York's Anti-Resolution Resolution: Ban the Trans Fat, Washington Post, 01-13-07
• What policymakers can learn from a $21 billion failure, Washington Examiner, 01-03-07
• A Tale Of Two Drug Classes Shows Why U.S. Mustn't Go Europe's Way, Investor's Business Daily, 12-01-06
• Stanford’s 'Freebies' Ban Doesn't Advance Medicine, Washington Examiner, 10-18-06
• A Fifth Column in the Prisons?, City Journal, 03-30-06
• You Get What You Pay For?, Tech Central Station, 03-10-06
• Policy Forum: The State of the Union Health Care Proposals, Medical Progress Today, 03-10-06
• Policy Forum: The State of the Union Health Care Proposals, Medical Progress Today, 02-10-06
• Bad Proposition, National Review Online, 11-07-05
• Bad Proposition, National Review Online, 11-07-05
• Vioxx Backlash Could Derail Future of Medicine, Health Care News, 01-15-05
• Blueprint for the Earth, Forbes.com, 09-20-04
• A 9/11 Tort-Fest, New York Post, 08-10-02
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• More Expensive but Cheaper Medical Progress Today, 2-10-06
• Bad Proposition: Wrong Rx for Californians National Review Online, 11-7-05

City Journal Articles

• “GPS” for Health Care, 15 April 2009
• $100 Billion of Bad Medicine, 4 February 2009
• McCain’s Competitive Advantage, 30 October 2008
• Health Care’s New Entrepreneurs, Summer 2008
• Hooray for Blockbuster Drugs, 1 August 2008
• Mandates Are Not the Answer, Spring 2008
• Mandates Are Not the Answer, 31 March 2008
• The Health of Nations, 29 October 2007
• Paint-By-Numbers Medicine, 9 July 2007
• Sickly States, 5 April 2007