Robert E. Moffit

Director
Center for Health Policy Studies
The Heritage Foundation

A key figure of Washington policymaking for more than two decades, Moffit serves as director of The Heritage Foundation Center for Health Policy Studies.  A former U.S. Department of Health and Human Services deputy assistant secretary and a senior Office of Personnel Management official, he is responsible for coordinating Heritage’s research on health care reform, health insurance markets, state-based health care initiatives, Medicare and Medicaid. Moffit, who has published in such journals as Health Affairs, the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy and the Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy, earned his B.A. from LaSalle University in Philadelphia and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Arizona.