Until his retirement at the end of June 2017, Daniels is Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population Health[4] in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston.
Daniels is married to neuro-psychologist Anne Lacy Daniels (Ed.D.).[9] They have one son, Noah M. Daniels (Ph.D), currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Statistics of The University of Rhode Island.[10]
In a public letter to his fraternity brothers at Wesleyan, Daniels wrote: "At Harvard, I ended up co-chair of SDS and gave the speech on the steps of University Hall April 9, 1969, that began the take-over of that administration building and thus led to the Harvard Strike. I would have been fired as a teaching fellow, so I followed my advisors advice and quit that position to take a part-time job at Tufts, teaching philosophy of science and political philosophy. I stayed 33 years."[6]
Member, Public Health Service Expert Panel on Cost Effectiveness and Clinical Preventive Medicine
Member, National Academy of Social Insurance study panel on the social role of Medicare
Member, Century Fund task force on Medicare reform
Consulting
He has traveled widely and internationally, consulting with organizations, commissions, and governments in the U.S. and abroad on issues of justice and health policy
Founding Member, National Academy of Social Insurance
Founding Member, International Society for Equity in Health
Founding Member, National Cancer Policy Board, established by the Institute of Medicine and the Commission on the Life Sciences (served He served four years)
Founding Member, Advisory Board of the Open Society Foundation project on Medicine as a Profession, and on the International Bioethics Advisory Board of PAHO. He served recently on an IOM Committee on the use of Cost Effectiveness Analysis in regulatory contexts.