Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials
This article examines the consequences and causes of low enrollment of Black patients in clinical trials.
Research
Using General Messages to Persuade on a Politicized Scientific Issue
Politics and science have become increasingly intertwined.
Pandemic, Governors, and Public Opinion: The Effect of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths on Public Support for America’s Governors
Research in American foreign policy holds that the public’s support for war significantly depends on the number of US casualties in the conflict.
Primary Care Physician Gender and Electronic Health Record Workload
Background Prior research indicates that female physicians spend more time working in the electronic health record (EHR) than do male physicians. Objective To examine gender differences in EHR usage
Hospital Allocation and Racial Disparities in Health Care
We develop a framework to measure the role of hospital allocation in racial disparities in health care and use it to study Black and white heart attack patients.
Rights and Their Limits: In Theory, Cases, and Pandemics
This book deals with how rights and their limits are dealt with in theories as well as in hypothetical and practical cases.
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation
One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated.
The 1968 Influenza Pandemic and COVID-19 Outcomes
Past pandemic experience can affect health outcomes in future pandemics. This paper focuses on the last major influenza pandemic in 1968 (H3N2), which killed up to 100,000 people in the US.
Building Mass Support for Global Pandemic Recovery Efforts in the United States
Containing the COVID-19 pandemic will confer global benefits that greatly exceed the costs but effective solutions require the redistribution of vaccines, technology, and other scarce resources from h
Evaluating The Accuracy Of Medicare Risk Adjustment For Alzheimer’s Disease And Related Dementias
In 2020 Medicare reintroduced Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs) to risk-adjust Medicare Advantage and accountable care organization (ACO) paymen
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