He was also a journalist-in-residence at Harvard School of Public Health, and is a founding member of the National Academy of Social Insurance.
[1] He was an elected member in the Institute of Medicine of the United States National Academy of Sciences and served on its Governing Council between 1985 and 1991.
[5] The journal was called "the bible of health policy" by Washington Post[6] with more than 16 million online page views per year.
[5] He stepped down from the position on September 4, 2007 and remained affiliated with the journal in an emeritus capacity.
[5] Since 1981, Iglehart had also been the national correspondent of The New England Journal of Medicine and had written more than 100 essays.