Robert B Hackey

Bob Hackey is a professor of health sciences at Providence College. His research and teaching interests focus on national and state health policy, health care regulation, and health care in popular culture. In 2008, Bob was named as the Carnegie/CASE Professor of the Year for Rhode Island. He collaborates regularly with PC students on research projects and is particularly proud to have co-authored numerous journal articles, book chapters, and reports with undergraduate students in recent years. His most recent work focuses on state regulation of nursing homes and the market for physical therapy services in Rhode Island. In 2024, Bob collaborated with colleagues in the PC Writing Center and the Phillips Memorial Library to launch a new undergraduate journal on Narrative Medicine: Essays on Health and Care. 

Bob has published widely on state and national health care reform for more than three decades and is the author of two books - Rethinking Health Care Policy: The New Politics of State Regulation (Georgetown University Press, 1997) and Cries of Crisis: Rethinking the Health Care Debate (University of Nevada Press, 2012). He also co-edited two other books on health care reform - The New Politics of State Health Policy (University Press of Kansas, 2001) and Today’s Health Care Issues: Democrats and Republicans (ABC-CLIO, 2021). Bloomsbury published a paperback version of Today's Health Care Issues in September 2025.  He also serves as an Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at the Watson School at Brown University.