Press — Health Inequality Lab

SELECTED MEDIA COVERAGE

Latest Interview

Q&A with Dr. Marcella Alsan on why the U.S. doesn’t have national health insurance.
Centre for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
November 7, 2024

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Photography by Genaro Molina. Banner image: Emergency medical technicians and paramedics with the Los Angeles Fire Department get ready to take a man they just revived from a drug overdose to the hospital. — Latest Coverage

“HKS health expert says next US administration will need holistic solutions to face multiple epidemics” by Robert O’Neill for Harvard Kennedy School.
October 16, 2024 | Image by Genaro Molina

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“How Doctors Derailed a US National Health Plan”

by John Tozzi

“I.G.N.I.T.E., a program at Genessee County Jail, is lowering the number of people re-entering the system.” by Nick Austin and Tia Graham

“Harvard Researchers Say Jail Educational Programs Reduce Recidivism, Violence” by Rachael A. Dziaba and Meghna Mitra

“Reducing Inmate Misconduct and Recidivism” by Emma Salomon

“Crystal Yang receives the 2023 Albert M. Sacks-Paul A. Freund Award for Teaching Excellence” by Harvard Law Today staff

“Crystal Yang honored with ALI’s Early Career Scholars Medal” by Harvard Law Today staff

“Supreme Court may halt health care guarantees for inmates” by Christina Pazzanese

“Black Americans wary of Covid vaccine effort” by Joshua Chaffin and Taylor Nicole Rogers

“Bad Medicine: The Harm That Comes From Racism” by Austin Frakt

“Why life expectancy for black men fell following the infamous Tuskegee experiment” by Jay Fitzgerald

“In the ointment” by Economist staff

“Economist explores the roots of global health” by Katie Johnston

“Why the tsetse fly might be the cause of Africa’s under-development” by Tim Fernholz

“Examining inequity” by Lisa Rosenbaum

“Even as the U.S. grows more diverse, the medical profession is slow to follow” by Dhruv Khullar

“Researchers May Have Found A Way To Improve Black Men's Life Expectancy” by Shankar Vedantam

“The Secret to Keeping Black Men Healthy? Maybe Black Doctors” by Gina Kolata

“Research: Having a Black Doctor Led Black Men to Receive More-Effective Care” by Nicole Torres

“A Generation of Bad Blood” by Vann R. Newkirk III

“Video messages by Abhijit Banerjee nudged Covid symptom reporting in Bengal, report says” by Remya Nair

“Vaccine Hesitancy and the Long Shadow of Racism in U.S. Health Care” by Bruce Bartlett

“5 Ways the Health-Care System Can Stop Amplifying Racism” by Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

“Twelve leading economists on the research that shaped our world in 2018” by Dan Kopf

“The perverse side effects of America’s harsh immigration policies” by Economist staff

“Legal U.S. immigrants may be scared to sign up for benefits” by Aimee Picchi

“Tsetse fly: can castration end one of Africa’s oldest development problems?” by Katherine Purvis

“The Importance Of Black Doctors” by Emily Kwong and Maddie Sofia

SELected Videos

Keynote (Retirement and Disability Research Consortium, NBER) [Slides]

Promoting Vaccine Take-up Among Minority Populations (NBER)

Marcella Alsan, Physician-Economist (MacArthur Foundation)

Racial Health Inequality in Medicine and Economics (ASHEcon) [Slides]