Dr. David E. Bloom is Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Bloom is a labor and health economist and a demographer, whose present work focuses mainly on the interplay of health, demographics, especially population growth and changes in population age structure, economic growth and development, and on the value of health interventions. Dr. Bloom serves as Director of Harvard’s Value of Vaccination Research Network funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He is also the co-founder and co-editor of Journal of the Economics of Ageing. Dr. Bloom has published over 600 articles, book chapters, and books.

In April 2005, Bloom was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2015 he was named a Carnegie Corporation of New York Andrew Carnegie Fellow. He has previously been a member of the public policy faculty at Carnegie-Mellon University and the economics faculties at Columbia University and Harvard University. Dr. Bloom received a BS in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University in 1976 and a PhD in Economics and Demography from Princeton University in 1981.

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