Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Ari Ne'eman is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research focuses on the role that public policy can play in facilitating the inclusion of people with disabilities throughout society. His primary research interests are in long-term services and supports, disability employment and benefits, public opinion, and bioethics policy. His work has been published in Health Affairs, Health Services Research, the New England Journal of Medicine, and other peer-reviewed journals. His research has also been cited in the Federal Register by the Department of Health and Human Services and in the annual economic report of the President's Council of Economic Advisers.

Dr. Ne'eman has also served as a consultant to the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights, in which capacity he played a pivotal role in HHS's work addressing disability discrimination in crisis standards of care during the COVID-19 pandemic and helped to craft portions of the 2024 updates to the Section 1557 and Section 504 regulations relating to medical treatment, value assessment, integration, and other topics. He previously served as one of President Obama's appointees to the National Council on Disability from 2010-2015 and as executive director of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network from 2006-2016.

He received his PhD from Harvard's Health Policy PhD program (Political Analysis track) in 2024.