David E. Bloom, Ph.D., is a labor and health economist and a demographer whose current work focuses on the interplay of health, demographics and economic wellbeing, as well as conceptualizing, modeling and quantifying the full societal value of health interventions. Bloom is the recipient of a Sloan Fellowship and a Fulbright Fellowship, is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. In 2023, he received the Population Association of America's Irene B. Taeuber award. He earned his B.S. in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University in 1976 and his Ph.D. in economics and demography from Princeton University in 1981. He was previously a member of the public policy faculty at Carnegie-Mellon University and the economics faculties at Harvard University and Columbia University.