Jonathan Ketcham, PhD

Earl G. and Gladys C. Davis Distinguished Research Professor of Economics, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. Founder, Margin Health.

Jonathan Ketcham is the Earl G. and Gladys C. Davis Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business and founder of Margin Health, which helps leaders across industry, government, and financial markets navigate the regulatory, reimbursement, and adoption pathways that turn healthcare innovation into commercial deployment. From 2025 to 2026, he served as Chief Healthcare Economist at the White House, advising on healthcare policy across HHS and its operating divisions, including the FDA, CMS, NIH, and ARPA-H. His research applies causal-inference methods to survey, experimental, and real-world data to examine how incentives, information, and institutional design shape decisions by payers, providers, and patients. He has led multiple R01 grants and published widely across economics, medicine, and health policy. He previously served as Principal Economist at Amazon and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Wharton School.