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 medical progress.

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's commentary on breaking medical research and medical news appears weekly on Medical Progress Today. As editor, he has written on a wide variety of medical policy issues, including medical malpractice, FDA reform, and Medicare policy initiatives. His columns have appeared in newspapers across the country, including the New York Post, WashingtonPost.com, and Investor's Business Daily and he is often quoted on health care issues.

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:

• The Small Business Advocate" with host Jim Blasingame, 04-11-08 (Click here to listen)
• KCEO's "The Politics of Money," 4-10-08
• Westwood One's "Lars Larson Show," 3-7-08
• WPTF's "North Carolina Morning News with Jack Boston," 02-27-08
• WIBA's "Upfront with Vicki McKenna", 02-20-08
• Syndication Network's "Infotrak with Dave Baum", 11-29-07
• KFBK's "Morning News with Kelly Brothers & Amy Lewis," 09-18-07
• WABC's Channel 7 News, 09-17-07
• WDRC's "Talk of Connecticut with Brad Davis," 03-06-07
• Regional News Network's "Richard French Live," 03-02-07
• KLIK's "Newstalk with Kay Kersting," 02-27-07
• WBAL's "The Ron Smith Show," 02-02-07
• Radio America's "Randy Tobler Show", 1-27-07
• KTEM's "Lynn Woolley Show", 1-25-07
• NPR's Marketplace, 01-03-07

Articles/Op-Eds:

• Patently Obvious By Paul Howard and Philip Stevens, The American Online, 04-17-08
• Both Parties Prescribe Bad Medicine In The Form Of Insurance Mandates By David Gratzer and Paul Howard, Investor's Business Daily, 03-31-08
• Competition won't ail you Boston Herald, 02-09-08
• The Health Of Nations National Post, 12-07-07
• On Vaccines, Immune to Reason WashingtonPost.com, 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 WashingtonPost.com, 07-17-07
• Paint-By-Numbers Medicine City Journal Online, 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
• Physician, Better Thyself New York Post, 04-29-07
• FDA Must Test Some Biologics' Generic Forms Investor's Business Daily, 04-12-07
• Sickly States City Journal Online, 04-05-07
• The End of Fatalism The American Online, 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 WashingtonPost.com, 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, 12-04-06
• Stanford's 'freebies' ban doesn't advance medicine San Francisco Examiner, 10-18-06
• California Focus: Demagoguery on drug prices Orange County Register, 9-22-06
• A Fifth Column in Prisons? City Journal, Spring 2006
• You Get What You Pay For TCS Daily, 3-10-06
• More Expensive but Cheaper Medical Progress Today, 2-10-06
• Bad Proposition: Wrong Rx for Californians National Review Online, 11-7-05
• Vioxx Backlash Could Derail Future of Medicine by Paul Howard and Robert Goldberg, Health Care News, 1-1-05
• A 9/11 Tort Fest New York Post, 8-10-02