Daniel Skinner

Daniel Skinner is a political scientist and health policy researcher who is Professor of Health Policy in the Department of Social Medicine at Ohio University, College of Osteopathic Medicine, based on the Dublin, Ohio campus. He earned his Ph.D in political science from the City University of New York. Skinner teaches, researches, and is active in health politics and policy, especially in areas of health care access, medical rhetoric, health care reform, and access to health care services for vulnerable and underserved populations. In addition to dozens of peer-reviewed scholarly articles in political theory, health policy, and medical education, Skinner is co-author of The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities (University of Chicago Press), author of Medical Necessity: Health Care Access and the Politics of Decision Making (University of Minnesota Press), and co-editor of Not Far from Me: Stories of Opioids and Ohio (Ohio State University Press).

Skinner is co-director of the Osteopathic Health Policy Fellowship and editor of the academic journal World Medical & Health Policy. He is also host of Prognosis Ohio, a bi-weekly podcast that addresses a wide range of health policy and politics issues in Ohio. Follow him on X at @danielrskinner.