Michael R. Reich is an American political scientist and the Taro Takemi Research Professor of International Health Policy at the Harvard T.H.
He served as Taro Takemi Professor of International Health Policy from 1997 to 2016.
[3] His next book was Six Lives/Six Deaths: Portraits from Modern Japan, written with Robert Jay Lifton and Shuichi Kato, and was published in Japanese in 1977 and in English in 1979.
Reich has also been engaged in public health in Mexico, including two terms as visiting professor at the National Institute of Public Health in Cuernavaca (2005-6 and 2015) and co-teaching (with Martin Lajous) over the past five years an intensive three-week Harvard field course in Mexico on the national health reform.
Since its establishment in 1983, the program has hosted over 290 mid-career researchers (Takemi Fellows) from 56 countries.