A distinguished policy and management scholar with a professional concentration in healthcare analysis and strategy, Joshua Rubin offers a deep understanding of issues advocacy, public policy process and marketing as well as stakeholder values engagement and the leadership imperatives of the new ‘responsibility paradigm’.

Josh serves as Issues and Policy Management Strategist for SSG client teams on a per-project basis.

Most recently, he has been Senior Policy Fellow at the eHealth Initiative, where he has focused on initiatives that improve healthcare quality, safety, efficiency, and access through the use of health information and information technology. He supported health IT policy workgroups and conferences involving diverse stakeholders. These included members of Congress and their legislative assistants, HHS, the FDA, NIH, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) along with state health departments, nonprofit organizations, philanthropies, and think tanks such as The Brookings Institution. He developed a needs analysis for the FDA in their effort to develop an e-Platform for regulated products – and provided project management and technical support to assist development of the FDA’s post-market safety surveillance initiative (Sentinel).

Prior to joining eHI, Josh was a Senior Consultant at IBM’s government healthcare strategy and change consulting team in Washington. There he provided strategic advisory services and supported organizational change initiatives for federal government healthcare clients - including the NIH and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). He also forged strategic alliances with nonprofit organizations and assisted in business development with proposals for mission-driven public sector clients and by identifying ways IBM could leverage its organizational expertise to benefit public health.

Josh has conducted policy research related to global HIV/AIDS leadership (focusing on developing countries) at the International AIDS Trust. He has conducted research and provided technical assistance related to legislation and regulation for the Children’s Safety Network project of the Educational Development Center. As an MBA student, Josh participated in education programs in Brussels, Oxford, and Prague. He was an intern at Senator Edward Kennedy’s healthcare policy office where, in addition to policy research, he provided constituents with technical assistance, wrote speeches, and drafted model legislation creating a privacy rights protection commission.

Josh holds a Juris Doctor (Cum Laude) from the Georgetown University Law Center and is a member of both the Virginia and DC Bar. He also earned an MBA (Beta Gamma Sigma) from Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business, a Master of Public Health (Delta Omega Alpha) from Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a Master of Public Policy from Georgetown’s Public Policy Institute. His undergraduate degree in psychology is from Georgetown’s College of Arts and Sciences (Summa Cum Laude; Phi Beta Kappa).