He was James Marsh Visiting Professor-at-Large at the University of Vermont from 2005-2012 and 2020-2021 Elizabeth S. and Richard M. Cashin Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

Hemenway has written over 270 articles and seven books in the fields of economics and public health.

[3] His most recent book is While We Were Sleeping: Success Stories in Injury and Violence Prevention (2009).

Prices and Choices (1993) is a collection of twenty-six of his essays applying microeconomic theory to everyday life.

An early statistics article, Why Your Classes are Larger than Average, has been anthologized in various mathematical collections.