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:

• Big Apple's “Curtis Sliwa Show”, 03-16-10
• Fox News “Strategy Room”, 03-4-10
• KURV's “The Valley's Morning News”, 03-2-10
• WHJJ's “Helen Glover Show”, 03-2-10
• KFTK's “Allman in the Morning”, 03-2-10
• WKBN's “The Rob Mangino Show”, 03-2-10
• WOAI's “Charlie Parker Show”, 03-2-10
• WRPW's “Porcelli's Morning Deli”, 03-2-10
• KIDO's “Kevin Miller Show”, 03-2-10
• WILM's “Delaware This Morning”, 03-2-10
• CRN's “Talk Back with Chuck Wilder”, 02-26-10
• Fox Business News “Daytime”, 02-25-10
• MSNBC “Live”, 02-9-10
• Fox Business News "Stuart Varney", 01-19-10

Articles/Op-Eds:

• Obama the Anti-Reformer, National Review Online, 03-15-10
• Obama's Sledgehammer Strategy, FoxNews.com, 03-04-10
• Partisanship Trumps All In Health Care Debate, FoxNews.com, 02-27-10
• Critical Diagnosis, Forbes.com, 02-02-10
• A Bipartisan Health Care Plan, Forbes.com, 01-27-10
• What Obama Should Say In His State of the Union, Washington Examiner, 01-27-10
• Obamacare's gift to all: More regulation, more debt, more taxes, Washington Examiner, 12-23-09
• ObamaCare’s HSA Promise – and Peril, Townhall.com, 12-17-09
• Flunking the Market Test, National Review Online, 12-16-09
• Five Questions On Health Reform Americans Should Be Asking Now, Investor's Business Daily, 12-09-09
• Three Strikes against Obamacare, National Review Online, 12-08-09
• Why Tragedy Will Be Result of Dems Rush to Victory on Health Reform, FoxNews.com, 11-13-09
• New York: Model or Warning?, Gotham Gazette, 11-09-09
• A Scary Bill, Full of Tricks, National Review Online, 10-30-09
• Real Health-Care Reform, National Review Online, 10-08-09
• New York Shows How Not To Do Health Care Reform, Washington Examiner, 09-23-09
• Waiting for Obama's Hail Mary, FoxNews.com, 09-10-09
• How To Pass Health Reform: Play Small Ball, Investor's Business Daily, 09-04-09
• Obamacare and Kennedy's Legacy, Washington Examiner, 09-02-09
• How To Stop This Rush To Failure And Fix What Really Needs Fixing, Investor's Business Daily, 07-22-09
• 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, 02-10-06
• Bad Proposition, National Review Online, 11-07-05
• Vioxx Backlash Could Derail Future of Medicine, Health Care News, 01-15-05
• A 9/11 Tort-Fest, New York Post, 08-10-02
• New York Shows How Not To Do Health Care Reform, Washington Examiner, 00-00-00
• More Expensive but Cheaper Medical Progress Today, 2-10-06

City Journal Articles

• Health Care and Hubris, 22 February 2010
• The Union Rules, 19 January 2010
• Hello Health, Goodbye Hassle, 12 January 2010
• Bending the Health-Care Cost Curve—Upward, 18 November 2009
• It’s the System, 3 September 2009
• The Medicaid Monster, 2 August 2009
• The Reaper Is Cheaper, 21 July 2009
• “GPS” for Health Care, 15 April 2009
• $100 Billion of Bad Medicine, 4 February 2009
• McCain’s Competitive Advantage, 30 October 2008

Blog Postings:

• Horatio Joe, National Review Online, 11-30-09
• $2.4 Trillion for House Health Bill, National Review Online, 11-04-09
• The Game Remains the Same, National Review Online, 09-10-09
• Health v. Health Care, National Review Online, 08-11-09
• No Pot of Gold for Obamacare, National Review Online, 08-10-09
• Legislate in Haste, Repent at Leisure, National Review Online, 07-24-09