Edward N. Brandt, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., is Professor and Director of the Center for Health Policy at the University of Oklahoma's Health Sciences Center. Previously, Dr. Brandt served as L.N. Upjohn Professor and Executive Dean of the College of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City. He formerly served as President of the University of Maryland at Baltimore and as a professor of epidemiology, preventive medicine and family medicine. Dr. Brandt was previously on the faculty of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

An Assistant Secretary for Health of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 1981 to 1984, he was also on the executive board of the World Health Organization and U.S. Delegate to the Pan American Health Organization. Dr. Brandt was a member of the Kaiser Commission on the Future of Medicaid.