Studying the causes and consequences of health inequality.

ABOUT US

The Health Inequality Lab is a research group based at the Harvard Kennedy School dedicated to studying the causes and consequences of health inequality in the United States and around the world.

Our research aim is to use economic frameworks and methods to understand the distribution of health and disease across individuals and groups. We strive to develop and investigate evidence-based, scalable strategies to reduce health inequality. We also investigate the relationship between inequity in the health care system and other forms of structural inequity, such as in the criminal justice system and in labor markets.