John E. McDonough, DrPH, MPA is a professor of practice at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy & Management. Between 2008 and 2010, he served as a Senior Advisor on National Health Reform to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions where he worked on the writing and passage of the Affordable Care Act. Between 2003 and 2008, he was Executive Director of Health Care For All, Massachusetts' consumer health advocacy organization where he played a leading role in the passage of the 2006 Massachusetts Health Reform Law.  From 1998 through 2003, he was an associate professor at the Heller School at Brandeis University.  From 1985 to 1997, he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives where he co-chaired the Joint Committee on Health Care.  His articles have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs and other journals.  He has written: Inside National Health Reform in 2011 and Experiencing Politics: A Legislator's Stories of Government and Health Care in 2000, both by the University of California Press and the Milbank Fund, and Interests, Ideas, and Deregulation: The Fate of Hospital Rate Setting in 1998 by the University of Michigan Press. He holds a doctorate in public health from the University of Michigan and a master's in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.