Dr. Edward C. Norton is a Professor in both the Department of Health Management and Policy and in the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan and a member of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation. In addition to his affiliations with the University of Michigan, Dr. Norton is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

His research interests in health economics include long-term care and aging, pay-for-performance, and econometrics. He was the Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan. In 2003, before coming to Michigan, he taught at UNC at Chapel Hill and at Harvard Medical School. In 2018, the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan awarded him the Excellence in Research Award.