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Cantor, J.C. (2006) “State Health Policy,” in C. van Horn, ed., The State of the States, CQ Press, Washington, DC.
Monheit, A.C., and J.C. Cantor, eds. (2004) State Health Insurance Market Reform: Toward Inclusive and Sustainable Health Insurance Markets. Routledge Press, London.
Phillips, J.A., J.E. Miller, J.C. Cantor, and D. Gaboda (2004) “Context or Composition: What Explains Variation in SCHIP Disenrollment?” Health Services Research. 39:4, 865-885.
Monheit, A.C., J.C. Cantor, M. Koller, and K. Fox (2004) “Community Rating and Sustainable Individual Health Insurance Markets: Trends in the New Jersey Individual Health Coverage Program.” Health Affairs, 23:4, 167-175.
Cantor, J.C.; J. Blustein; M.J. Carlson; D.A. Gould. “Next-of-Kin Perceptions of Physician Responsiveness to Symptoms of Hospitalized Patients Near Death” Journal of Palliative Medicine, 6:4 (August 2003), 231-541.
Hoover, D.R.; S. Crystal; R. Kumar; U. Sambamoorthi; J.C. Cantor. “Medical Expenditures During the Last Year on Life: Findings from the 1992-96 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey.” Health Services Research, 37:6 (December 2002), 1625-1642.
DeLia, D.; J.C. Cantor; E. Duck. “Productivity versus Training in Primary Care: Analysis of Hospitals and Health Centers in New York City,” Inquiry, 39:3 (Fall 2002), 314-326.
Cantor, J.C., L. Bergeisen, L.C. Baker (1998) “Effect of an Intensive Education Program for Minority College Students and Recent Graduates on the Probability of Acceptance to Medical School.” Journal of the American Medical Association, 280:9, 772-776.

Joel C. Cantor is the director of the Center for State Health Policy and professor of public policy at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in February 1999, Dr. Cantor served as Director of Research at the United Hospital Fund, an independent philanthropic and research organization working to improve health care for vulnerable populations in New York City. Between 1987 and 1995, Dr. Cantor was a member of the research staff of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Throughout his professional career Dr. Cantor has focused on issues of health care financing and delivery at the state level. His recent work includes studies of the effect of health care market competition on access to care, the impact of Medicaid managed care on health care providers, the organization of the health care safety net for the uninsured, and the role of minority physicians in improving access to care of underserved populations. Dr. Cantor has published widely on health policy topics, and serves on the editorial board of the policy journal Inquiry. Dr. Cantor received his doctorate in health policy and management from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1988, and holds a BA in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 1996, Dr. Cantor was elected a Fellow of the Association for Health Services Research.