Daniel Skinner

Before becoming Director in 2024, Dr. Skinner served as co-director of the Osteopathic Health Policy Fellowship since 2018 and assistant director to Barbara Ross-Lee, DO, since 2014. Dr. Skinner is professor of health policy in the Department of Social Medicine at Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine (OU-HCOM), in Dublin, Ohio where he teaches medical students about the intersections of policy, politics and health. His scholarly interests include healthcare politics and policy; the politics of medicine and disease; hospital-community relations; gender politics; and medical rhetoric. At OU-HCOM, Dr. Skinner designed and currently teaches an innovative course in health policy entitled Health Policy & Systems.

In addition to many peer-reviewed articles published in journals such as The Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law; The Journal of Rural Health; The Journal of Medical Humanities; The Review of Politics; and Public Administration Review, Skinner is author of Medical Necessity: Health Care Access and the Politics of Decision Making (University of Minnesota Press, 2019), co-editor (with Ohio University professor Berkeley Franz) of Not Far From Me: Stories of Opioids and Ohio (Ohio State University Press, 2019) and author (with Franz and UMASS sociologist Jonathan R. Wynn) of The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities (University of Chicago Press, 2023). 

Dr. Skinner is also editor-in-chief for the journal World Medical & Health Policy (Wiley) and host of Prognosis Ohio, a healthcare podcast produced in collaboration with the Columbus-based NPR affiliate, WCBE. Dr. Skinner holds a PhD and an MA in political science from the City University of New York, The Graduate Center.