Jon Gabel is a Senior Fellow with NORC at the University of Chicago in Washington, D.C., with more than 35 years of experience. A nationally recognized expert on private health insurance, he currently manages additional projects on health reform, mental health, and TRICARE. Gabel is the author of more than 135 articles in scholarly journals including 57 in the influential journal Health Affairs.
Gabel is currently project director for numerous studies funded by government agencies, research foundations, and private firms. From 1986-2008 he was the principal investigator or co-principal investigator of the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Benefits Survey and its predecessors’ surveys. Gabel was Vice President of the Center for Studying Health System Change from 2005-2006. From 1999-2005, Gabel was Vice President for Health Systems Studies at the Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET). He formerly was Director of the Center for Survey Research for KPMG Peat Marwick LLP. He has served as Director of Research for the American Association of Health Plans and the Health Insurance Association of America, industry trade associations representing HMOs and health insurance companies. He began his career as an economist in what are now CMS and AHRQ.
Gabel has served on the editorial boards of a number of journals and is a peer reviewer for 22 health services research, health policy and economics journals. He is a frequent speaker at business and professional meetings, is often quoted in the media, and has appeared on many major national television news networks. He has testified before the U.S. Congress and many state legislatures.
Gabel is an active member of AcademyHealth and has been selected by Who’s Who in the East and the Faukner and Gray Influential 500. He holds an adjunct faculty position at George Washington University in the Department of Health Policy.