Marcella Alsan
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Prof., Economist/MD @Harvard studies Health Inequity (she|her)
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Just catching up on twitter. Thank you so much to all those who emailed, tweeted etc. And to my family, mentors, colleagues, students and patients - I owe this incredible award to you. And of course
@macfound
what an opportunity
#MacFellow
- thank you!!!
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Paul Farmer and Ken Arrow - two amazing people who did so much to influence health policy and scholarship in completely different and incredibly effective ways. Paul loved this photo and mentioned it last time we spoke. The loss is immense.
@PIH
@StanfordHP
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Opening: looking for a predoc/RA who can help complete our team and is interested in data-driven approaches to improve health equity
@econ_ra
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Thank you!! Truly honored and humbled to be among such an amazing group of scholars elected to the National Academy of Medicine
Congratulations to
@Kennedy_School
Professor
@MarcellaAlsan
, elected to the National Academy of Medicine
@theNAMedicine
for her scholarly insights on understanding the origins of medical mistrust and the role it plays in understanding health disparities.
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Openings for 1-2 pre-doctoral fellows to join the Health Inequality Lab at Harvard Kennedy School. More info can be found here:
@econ_ra
@predoc_org
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The Harvard Kennedy School invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor beginning in the Fall 2022 semester.
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Pleased to announce our terrific group of Public Policy job market candidates
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Celebrating that 4 (& counting) research assistant/students that performed outstanding fieldwork for the Oakland study on physician diversity have been accepted to grad school (3 to MD, 1 to MPH program)!
#healthequity
@BridgeClinical
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Profs. Crystal Yang, Peter Hull and I are looking for a RA based out of Flint Michigan to help evaluate an innovative program in the Genesee jail - more info here:
#flint
#econ_ra
@instrumenthull
@MottCollege
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The Harvard Public Policy & Political Economy and Government PhD program is pleased to announce our 2023 Job Market Candidates!! For a complete list please visit these two websites:
@ProfDavidDeming
@rema_nadeem
@elianalaferrara
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Emma Rackstraw
Emma’s work explores how reality TV shows about police - a form of “copaganda” - distort our beliefs about the police and lead police to make more arrests that have little to no public safety benefit.
@InequalityHKS
@HarvardMWC
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Crystal Yang and I are hiring a RA to work on a correctional healthcare study this Spring. They will receive training for a promotion to Project Coordinator in July 2022. More info here:
@econ_ra
#EconTwitter
@InequalityHKS
#PublicHealthTwitter
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Our new research on messaging to increase vaccine demand (with Sarah Eichmeyer, Munich), finds an important role for non-expert messengers, esp. among adults who do not usually vaccinate.
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Layane Alhorr
In her job market paper, Layane experimentally investigates the promise of digital market access in unlocking growth for female entrepreneurs living in conservative communities.
@HarvardCID
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Excited to share
@MilbankFund
piece on the many ("beyond causal") benefits of RCTs for improving health care delivery with the brilliant Amy Finkelstein. Features terrific studies from
@JPAL
,
@JPAL_NA
+ other researchers
What are the benefits of using randomized controlled trials to evaluate health care delivery and health policy? CC
@MarcellaAlsan
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Openings for two pre-doctoral fellows to join the team at the Harvard Kennedy School working on projects related to econ of health equity. More info here:
#EconTwitter
@InequalityHKS
@econ_ra
@predoc_org
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Honored to speak at launch of Lausanne Center for Health Economics, Behavior & Policy with terrific colleagues
@amitabhchandra2
@KosaliSimon
& Ichiro Kawachi
- LCHE scholars plan interdisc. agenda on aging, equity, innovation + more
@UnisanteVD
@unil
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Here he is again with Michael Kremer me
@cutler_econ
and
@DrNathanNunn
- how can one person do so much for so many?
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HKS is proud to announce our 2023-24 Job Market Candidates. Learn more about each candidate and via tweets that follow
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Clara Sievert
Clara documents the prevalence of supernatural beliefs about illness in Sub-Saharan Africa and shows their impact on medical decision-making through a field experiment in the DR Congo
@HarvardCID
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New
@nberpubs
on racial/ethnic gaps in health effects of COVID-19 by 3 of the greats:
@MarcellaAlsan
@amitabhchandra2
@KosaliSimon
"These results are ... consistent with the broader narrative that Black and Hispanic individuals face institutional disadvantages"
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Fun and informative to be on a panel with
@cesicruz
and
@Becky_C_Royer
for
@weconference21
!! Thank you for putting it together conference organizers!
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Alice Heath shows that child protection agencies increase removals by 19% following highly-publicized maltreatment deaths and assesses whether the reaction is appropriate by examining who agencies remove and the impact on children’s health.
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Emma Smith
Emma’s job market paper shows that social cover can overcome stigma barriers to learning about mental health services in refugee networks.
@HarvardCID
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The
#InflationReductionAct
eliminated cost-sharing for vaccines in Medicare - this will improve
#healthequity
(see chart in ppr) but more can be done! Read our
@Health_Affairs
Forefront to learn more (Great working w/Dr. Sumit Agarwal
@BrighamMedRes
&
@ndylsh
of
@berkeleyecon
)
In their new Forefront article, Sumit Agarwal, Nikhil Shankar +
@MarcellaAlsan
from
@BrighamWomens
+
@harvardmed
discuss how in the
#InflationReductionAct
of 2022 is a provision worthy of praise: the elimination of cost-sharing in
#Medicare
for vaccines.
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The Dartmouth Institute (TDI) has a Health Equity research position. More info near the bottom of this page
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The Harvard Undergraduate Economics Association is hosting a talk on March 3rd from 4-5 pm on the Ukraine-Russia crisis and its economic repercussions with Professor Maxim Boycko
@harvardeconrev
@HarvardEcon
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Grateful for the invite and training from
@LoyolaMedMD
, for old friends like
@BioethxMark
and new like
@BadiaAhad
. See their great lineup of bioethics grand rounds: gun violence/
Ukraine and more:
https://tinyurl.coms5k3bnms
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From our
@Kennedy_School
Student-Led
#HealthPolicy
Panel
#COVID19
: Experiences and Lessons for Health Policy & The Economy | Friday, 3/4 @ 9 AM ET
featuring:
@who
@doctorsoumya
and
@WorldBank
@palutom
RSVP to healthpolicypic.hks
@gmail
.com
@jodyjonesturner
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Ben Berger
Studies how hospitals game the 340B Drug Pricing Program, a federal program to help hospitals that treat low-income patients, by leveraging health system integration to manipulate billing practices and pass drug discounts to other facilities.
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CDC Director Declares Racism A 'Serious Public Health Threat'
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Marcos Barozzo
Marcos investigates how market power distorts incentives for agricultural production in the Amazon - it reduces output where carbon emissions are low but leaves the highest emitters unaffected.
@HarvardCID
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Curious about how Private Equity in health care affects health outcomes? please see here:
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@HarvardCID
@HarvardMWC
@InequalityHKS
HKS is proud to announce our 2023-24 Job Market Candidates. Learn more about each candidate
+ via tweets that follow
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Thank you
@belindaarch
!! My list is also 2long to tweet but would have to include the terrific trio of
@Cutler_econ
@PikaGoldin
and
@DrNathanNunn
!!
I like this thread!-I've been fortunate to meet many good actors in Econ, more than I can list here- adding
@TrevonDLogan
,
@snaidunl
,
@drlisadcook
,
@LizAnanat
,
@MarcellaAlsan
,
@Econ_Sandy
,
@lwantchekon
, and countless others including off Twitter- E.Washington,J.Fenske,E. Asiedu et al.
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@HarvardCID
@HarvardMWC
@InequalityHKS
HKS is proud to announce our 2023-24 Job Market Candidates. Learn more about each candidate and via tweets that follow
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Laura Morris
Laura's JMP synthesizes causal data from impact evaluations to conduct a comparative welfare analysis of 40 policies in low and middle-income countries.
@HarvardCID
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From Friends at UCLA Anderson: Announcement of Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Healthcare and Business
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Tridevi Chakma
Tridevi's job market paper studies the mortality effects and determinants of urban heat islands, and their racial incidence.
@InequalityHKS
@HarvardMWC
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Jacob Bradt
Explores the impact of solar panel subsidies on market structure in California, finding that consumer rebates are less effective at stimulating industry growth than conventional industrial policy.
@HarvardMWC
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Congratulations to 2020 Arrow Award winners - such a neat paper
Congratulations to professor
@orianabandiera
&
@profnavaashraf
who, with their co-authors
@EdMDavenport
and Scott S Lee
@VanderbiltU
, have received the 29th Arrow Award for for the best paper in
@healtheconomics
!
@LSEEcon
@LSEnews
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Molly Moore
In her job market paper, Moore experimentally tests a social signaling model in the domain of partisan information, finding that tailoring one’s information selection decisions depending on who is watching you can indeed have strategic value.
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Happening Now! Join us online - A powerhouse panel of amazing women leaders:
@drlouiseivers
@DrMaryTBassett
@Winnie_Byanyima
- the
@unaids
Director kicks us off with to realize health equity "must address human rights"
Every minute a life is lost to AIDS. How do we close the inequalities holding back our health systems? I'm looking fwd to today's
#GEM22
conversation
@HarvardCID
.
w/
@DrMaryTBassett
@drlouiseivers
@jasonbnpr
@MarcellaAlsan
📆 29 April, 9:40 ET / 3:40 CET
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@JacobBor
@atheendar
@astokespop
@JuliaRaifman
@himmelhandler
@DrMaryTBassett
@Cutler_econ
@shwoolf
@jonlevyBU
@KBibbinsDomingo
@ZekeEmanuel
@DLeonhardt
@HMDatabase
@sophie_kasakove
@robsteinnews
ambitious and impt - thank you for doing this work
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Thank you
@heidilwilliams_
!!! ugated version link and a motivating graphic:
@MarcellaAlsan
@mayadurvasula
Paper posted here: . While not the main result of our paper, the graph below is one that I have found particularly thought-provoking.
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Sobering & impt study using data from Norway adding to evidence base on the health (+other) effects of mass shootings by Prashant Bharadwaj and colleagues
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@ZoeMcLaren
@TrevonDLogan
@mwanamak
if helpful - slides for Oakland ppr are here and Tuskegee ppr are Thank you!
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So much wisdom so little time - grateful to
@UNAIDS
Director
@Winnie_Byanyima
Commissioner
@DrMaryTBassett
of
@NYSDOH
for their insights at
@HarvardCID
GEM2022
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We sent requests for DUAs to learn what was being shared with the federal govt. We found that several states including CA & TX aren’t sharing race/ethnicity data on vaccinations with CDC, citing patient privacy laws. In better news, most states are.
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Very cool research by
@MackenzieAlsto4
highlighted - including her JMP on (perceived) cost of being female link here if you haven't seen it already!
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Nice piece by
@LisaRosenbaum17
About 27% of Americans say they definitely or probably won’t get a
#Covid19vaccine
, even if it’s free and deemed safe by scientists. The behavioral obstacles to widespread vaccination are thus as important to understand as the scientific and logistic hurdles.
#IDTwitter
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so many great quotes -
@drlouiseivers
notes - "we need to rethink who are the experts" and avoid the cycle of "panic then neglect"
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@statnews
Reminiscent of other vast inequalities documented by prominent economists
@gabriel_zucman
and Saez...
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Our research (w/Sarah Eichmeyer (Munich)) suggests such efforts could help!
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Dr. Williams teaches
@HarrisPolicy
"When you look at these, what do you see? Dots, colors, statistics...I see how racial injustice manifests as health care injustice..how Black Chicagoans are suffering the most from gun violence, suffering from COVID infections..."
Why health care and gun violence are matters of racial justice
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@seema_econ
@PrincetonEcon
@PrincetonSPIA
Congratulations to Seema and to Princeton for attracting an amazing scholar.
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@MaxJordan_N
@atheendar
this one comes to mind - not a study per se, but an important perspective
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@claudferraz
@ubcprez
@DrNathanNunn
@ubcVSE
Very sad as well, but huge congratulations and wonderful news for
@ubcVSE
!
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Great to see
@CarlosdelRio7
and other ID docs breaking down COVID-19 mRNA vaccines for JAMA
Millions of people are being immunized with mRNA vaccines from
@pfizer
-
@BioNTech_Group
and
@moderna_tx
. This video reviews how the vaccines work, and safety experience since they were authorized for use in December 2020. (Produced February 2021)
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@DrIanWeissman
Thank you so much
@DrIanWeissman
- and
@LauraSanthanam
for a great piece - especially b/c it also features the brilliant MD PhD
@UCSFMedicine
student
@javiral19
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@AnneKaring
@lauraderksen
@WiEMecon
thrilled to be at this excellent conference - thank you to the organizers!!
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This deadly 'kissing bug' has been mostly ignored. It shouldn't be, this author says. via
@nbcnews
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‘A massive gap in information’: Most vaccine clinical trials fail to report data on... via
@statnews
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@drdrtsai
@GlobalHealthMGH
@jdrasmus1
@evepuffer
@USC
Extremely important work, Alex. Thanks for sharing.
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