The Center for Modern Health (CMH) is public policy research organization dedicated to transforming health policy through individual rights and free markets. Our mission is to educate and advocate for ideas in healthcare that integrate rational thinking, individual freedom, and market-driven solutions.

We are committed to fostering an environment where ideas can flourish, and where actionable solutions can be developed. Our educational programs guide students to a deep understanding of American healthcare and teaches the practical skills needed to work in health policy. Our work in research and advocacy supports the effort to bring about a new approach to health policy grounded in respect for individual autonomy and free markets, with an overall vision of human progress and abundance.

CMH is an independent, non-partisan organization based in Hanover, New Hampshire. We are funded by donations and grant-funded research projects. We do not accept government funding.

Tre Ayer. Larry "Tre" Ayer is an ORISE Fellow in the CDC's Division of Overdose Prevention supporting the Clinician and Health System Engagement prevention strategy of the Overdose Data to Action in States cooperative agreement. Tre earned his BA in Political Science and Economics from Wheaton College in 2020 and his Master of Public Health from The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice in 2021. His academic interests include health policy, health services research, health care quality improvement, behavioral economics, and health system financing.

Kirk Barbera. Kirk Barbera is a literary critic, writer, and teacher. He received his B.A. in Film/Theatre production and studied the great works of imaginative literature from Homer to Rand. He is the host of the Troubadour Podcast, a long-standing educational resource for the literary arts in poetry, short stories, novels and plays, and he hosts an online community called the Literary Canon Club, which is dedicated to reading and understanding the Western literary canon. He is based in Austin, Texas.

Robert Graboyes. Robert F. Graboyes is an economist, journalist, and musician at RFG Counterpoint, LLC, in Alexandria, Virginia. Author of Fortress and Frontier in American Health Care and publisher of Bastiat's Window on Substack, he writes on the technology and politicization of healthcare. He earned his PhD in economics from Columbia University.

Charles Hacker. Charles Hacker received his A.B. in Russian Studies from the University of Chicago, and his J.D. from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. Originally from Ohio, Charles moved to Vermont in the late 1990s and has worked in private practice, the Vermont Family Court, and most recently the Vermont Office of Child Support.

David Hyman. David Hyman, MD, JD, is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Health Law & Policy at Georgetown University. David focuses his research and writing on the regulation and financing of health care. He teaches or has taught health care regulation, civil procedure, insurance, medical malpractice, law & economics, professional responsibility, and tax policy. He is also an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute.

Theo Padnos. Theo Padnos received his PhD in Comparative Literature from UMass Amherst, and has experience teaching Chekhov, Gilman, Tolstoy, Camus, and other authors. He is the author of My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun: Adolescents at the Apocalypse, A Teacher's Notes (Miramax Books, 2004), a memoir about teaching poetry in prison, as well as several books about Islam. He is also the subject of the Netflix documentary, Theo Who Lived.

Jared Rhoads. Jared Rhoads received his Master in Public Health from The Dartmouth Institue for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and a Master of Science from Bentley University. He teaches health policy at Dartmouth, where he also advises and mentors students on their independent research projects. Jared is a Senior Affiliated Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and has published health policy research with several think tanks.