Faculty

Charles Brecher

Charles Brecher, Ph.D., is a Professor of Public and Health Administration at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He has been on the faculty since 1980, and he has twice served as Director of the School's Program in Health Policy and Management, leading a Master's level program with about 250 students. He received a Ph.D. in political science from the City University of New York. Before joining NYU, he taught at the New School for Social Research and served as senior research associate at Columbia University's Conservation of Human Resource project.

Professor Brecher's research spans the field of health care finance, municipal finance, urban politics, and methods of policy analysis. His most recent books are Power Failure: Politics and Policy in New York City since 1960, a study of local political change, and Privatization and Public Hospitals, an analysis of the relevance of privatization to indigent care. Professor Brecher serves as the Research Director for the Citizens Budget Commission, a nonpartisan civic organization devoted to improving financial management and service delivery by the City of New York and the State of New York. He is also the leading fiscal component of the Wagner School's multi-year evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Urban Health Initiative. In addition, he has served as the Academic Coordinator for executive development programs conducted by New York University for the National Association of Public Hospitals and for the National Hispanic Medical Association, and as Project Coordinator for the New York University-Republic of Albania, Health Management Education Partnership, sponsored by the American International Health Alliance.

Professor Brecher served on the board of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration for six years and is on the Board of the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy (SCAA).