News & Publications

Mary Waters (2013 Awardee) co-authors "Obamacare in Action: How Access to the Health Care System Contributes to Immigrants’ Sense of Belonging" in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, pp. 1-17, June 12, 2017.

Phil Brown (1998 Awardee) co-authors "The EPA Under Siege / Trump's Assault in History and Testimony", in Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, June 1, 2017.

Aaron Kesselheim (2009 Awardee) co-authors "Accelerated Approval and Expensive Drugs — A Challenging Combination" in New England Journal of Medicine, 376, pp.

Gary Taubes (2008 Awardee) in "Want to lose weight the smart way? Eat fat, scientists say" in The Island Packet, May 31, 2017.

Gary Taubes (2008 Awardee) in "Moving on from 'Let's Move'" in Washington Examiner, May 28, 2017 and in "Eat fat to lose weight? Scientists say it’s the smart thing to do" in The Sacramento Bee, May 29, 2017.

Harold Pollack (2011 Awardee) in "He helped his overdosing friend by calling 911.

Edward Maibach (2008 Awardee) in "Obama's final budget mentioned climate 36 times to Trump's 3" in Climatewire, May 24, 2017.

Sandro Galea (2006 Awardee) co-writes "Comment: What Trump’s agenda means for our health care" in Times Colonist, May 23, 2017.

Aaron Kesselheim (2009 Awardee) co-authors "FDA Approval of Desmopressin for Nocturia" in The Journal of the American Medical Association, 317(20), pp. 2059-2060, May 23, 2017.

David Blumenthal (2002 Awardee) named 2017 Recipient of the William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research, Business Wire, May 19, 2017.

Harold Pollack (2011 Awardee) in "Trump promised to end the opioid epidemic. He could be making it worse" in Vox, May 17, 2017.

Aaron Kesselheim (2009 Awardee) in "New Cancer Drugs Costing a Bundle" in Managed Care, May 15, 2017.

Gary Taubes (2008 AWardee) in "Breakfast was the most important meal of the day — until America ruined it" in The Washington Post, May 15, 2017.

Howard Markel (2007 Awardee) in "How Florence Nightingale cleaned up ‘hell on earth’ hospitals and became an international hero" on PBS News Hour, May 12, 2017.

Michelle Mello (2007 Awardee) co-authors "Medical Liability — Prospects for Federal Reform" in New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 376, pp. 1806-1808, May 11, 2017.

Stephen Hinshaw (2008 Awardee) in "Medication slashes crash risk for drivers with ADHD, study finds" in CNN, May 10, 2017.

Aaron Kesselheim in “DC Week: AHCA Squeaks Through House” in MedPage Today, May 6, 2017.

Sandro Galea (2006 Awardee) writes "The Republican Health Care Bill Is An American Tragedy" on WBUR.com, May 9, 2017.

Ed Yelin (2013 Awardee) co-authors "A Prospective Study of the Impact of Current Poverty, History of Poverty, and Exiting Poverty on Accumulation of Disease Damage in SLE" in Arthritis & Rheumatology, May 8, 2017.

Sandro Galea (2006 Awardee) co-writes “What’s at risk for Canada in the American health-care war?” in The Globe and Mail, May 7, 2017.

Howard Markel (2007 Awardee) in “In the US, health care a privilege, not a right” in Yahoo News, May 6, 2017.

Aaron Kesselheim (2009 Awardee) co-authors "The Failure of Solanezumab — How the FDA Saved Taxpayers Billions" in The New England Journal of Medicine, May 4, 2017, pp. 376:1706-1708, and in "Fixing the Broken Drug Pricing System" in MedPage Today, May 3, 2017.

Ilan Meyer (2008 Awardee) in "NU conference looks at LGBT health" in Windy City Times, May 3, 2017.

Peter Ubel (2007 Awardee) co-authors "Quality of Patient Decisions About Breast Reconstruction After Mastectomy" in JAMA Surgery, May 3, 2017 and in "Most Breast Cancer Patients Facing Mastectomies Don't Make Informed Reconstructive Decisions: Study" in Downtown

Jason Karlawish (2008 Awardee) in "UPenn Doing First-Of-Its-Kind Genetic Testing For Alzheimer’s Disease" on CBS Philly, May 2, 2017.

Gary Taubes (2008 Awardee) in "Conservatives' New Climate Argument Fails" in Bloomberg View, May 1, 2017.

Aaron Kesselheim (2009 Awardee) co-authors "Medicaid Expenditures and Estimated Rebates for Epinephrine Autoinjectors, 2012 to 2016" in The Journal of the American Medical Association, 177(5) pp.

Susan Mettler (2011 Awardee) writes, "Democracy on the Brink" in Foreign Affairs, Issue, May/June 2017.

Gary Taubes (2008 Awardee) in "News4 Is Going #SugarFree Monday" on NBC/News 4, April 28, 2017.

Harold Pollack (2011 Awardee) in "Will some states return to the pre-ACA status quo if AHCA passes?" in Modern Healthcare, April 26, 2017.

Aaron Kesselheim (2009 Awardee) in "Desperate Families Driven to Black Market Insulin" on NBC News, April 25, 2017.

Gary Young (2006 Awardee) in "How Much Charity Care do Non-Profit Hospitals Provide?” in Modern Healthcare, April 24, 2017, in "Cherry Picking Patients May Be Business as Usual for Not-for-Profits Like Mayo,” in Modern Healthcare, March 23, 2017, in "

Sherman James (2008 Awardee) in "Status climb with caution: Social mobility may take a toll on our DNA" in Genetic Literacy Project, April 21, 2017.

Sandro Galea (2006 Awardee) writes "As Scientists Get Political, Public Health Offers a Blueprint for Success" in Scientific American, April 20, 2017.

Jason Corburn (2007 Awardee) in "A Focus on Health to Resolve Urban Ills" in The New York Times, April 19, 2017.

Alan S. Gerber (2008 Awardee) in "There’s no sign Donald Trump can win a campaign for anyone not named Donald Trump" in The Washington Post, April 18, 2017.

Alan Garber (2003 Awardee) elected "2017 Fellow within the American Academy of Arts and Sciences", April  18, 2017.

Suzanne Mettler (2011 Awardee) elected 2017 Fellow within the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, April 18, 2017.

Daniel Carpenter (2003 Awardee /HPR Alumni) authors "Scott Gottlieb and the Credibility of U.S. Therapeutics" in New England Journal of Medicine, 376;e30, April 13, 2017.

Sandro Galea (2006 Awardee) in "3 Insights About Inequality in American Health Care" in Science of US, April 11, 2017, writes "A National Security Health Hazard"

Richard Deyo (2000 Awardee) in "For acute low back pain, spinal manipulation provides modest relief, study finds" in The San Diego Union-Tribune, April 11, 2017.

Aaron Kesselheim (2009 AWardee) in "Drugmakers Help Turn Patients With Rare Diseases Into D.C.

Gary Taubes (2008 Awardee) in "Preventing chronic diseases with lifestyle changes" in the Clinical Advisor, April 7, 2017, in "Drink Your Whole Milk, Eat Your Butter … Or Don't: The Great Fat Debate" in ELLE, April 7, 2017 and in "

Theda Skocpol (1993 Awardee) in "No, Donald Trump's triumph is not a setback for the Koch brothers" in MinnPost, April 7, 2017.

Stephen Hinshaw (2008 Awardee) in "The Latest MTA Study in Context: What It Tells Us about the Role of Medication in ADHD Treatment" in Additude, April 6, 2017.

Sandro Galea (2006 Awardee) in "Why Chemical Attacks Hurt Kids More, In So Many Different Ways" in Romper, April 5, 2017.

Aaron Kesselheim (2009 Awardee) in "The Cost of Cancer: New Checkpoint Inhibitors Do the Job, But at a Steep Price" in Managed Care, April 3, 2017.

Sara Rosenbaum (2000 Awardee) in "What's next for Medicaid: Experts weigh in on waivers, expansion, work requirements" in Fierce Healthcare, April 4, 2017.

Suzanne Mettler (2011 Awardee) and Theda Skocpol (1993 Awardee) in "How American women gained, lost, and are regaining their collective voice" in Vox, April 2, 2017.

Sandro Galea (2006 Awardee) in "Depression among current, former, and never smokers from 2005 to 2013: The hidden role of disparities in depression in the ongoing tobacco epidemic" in Drug and Alcohol Dependence Journal, Vol. 173, pp. 191-199, April 1, 2017.

Dorothy Roberts (2007 Awardee) winner of the Mamie Phipps Clark and Kenneth B. Clark Distinguished Lecture Award, Columbia University, April 1, 2017.

Greg Duncan (2009 Awardee) in "Science says parents of successful kids have 17 things in common" in Business Insider, March 30, 2017.

Dorothy Roberts (2007 Awardee) in " Mother Peril / How America endangered and profited from black motherhood" in MTV News, and in "Bill O’Reilly’s Racist Comment Is Rooted in America’s Racist Past" in The Nation, March 30, 2017.

Bhaven Sampat (2006 Awardee) co-authors "The applied value of public investments in biomedical research" in Science, March 30, 2017.

Joseph Fins (2006 Awardee) authored "Senators should question Gorsuch about views on 'right to die'" in The Hill, March 20, 2017.

Sandro Galea (2006 Awardee) in "O Canada: What our neighbors to the north can teach us about health care reform" in STAT, March 27, 2017 and writes "The Dysfunction Behind Trumpcare Explained" in Fortune, March 28, 2017.

Joan M. Teno (2013 Awardee) in "Editorial: We're dying more at home. That's good" in Albany Democratic-Herald, March 28, 2017.

Eric Patashnik (2008 Awardee) and Jonathan Oberlander (HPR alumnus) co-writes "Obamacare is the law of the land, but it's still vulnerable" in The Washington Post, March 27, 2017.

Amy Dockser Marcus (2006 Awardee) authored "The trouble with DIY gene editing" in Market Watch, March 24, 2017.

Susan Wolf  (2011 Awardee) in "Should Healthy People Have Their Exomes Sequenced?" in The Scientist, March 24, 2017.

Robert Cook-Deegan (1998 Awardee) in "What It’s Like When Your Federal Agency Disappears" in the Pacific Standard, March 24, 2017.

Michelle Mello (2007 Awardee) in "Many Doctors Get Payments From Drug Companies, Study Shows" in Montana Standard, March 21, 2017.

Aaron Kesselheim (2009 Awardee) in "For Rare Disease Patients, A Pathway To Hundreds Of New Therapies" in Health Affaris Blog, March 21, 2017. In "Drug commercials, like prescription costs, are on the rise" on WGBH, March 20, 2017.

Joseph Fins (2006 Awardee) authored "Senators should question Gorsuch about views on 'right to die'" in The Hill, March 20, 2017.

Harold Pollack (2011 Awardee) in "State legislators work on bill to establish single-player healthcare system" in the Richmond Confidential, March 16, 2017.

Frank Levy (2007 Awardee) in "A.I. Is Doing Legal Work. But It Won’t Replace Lawyers, Yet." in The New York Times, March 19, 2017.

Alexandra Minna Stern (2007 Awardee) in "White Plains woman who dreamt up genetic counseling" on Lohud.com, March 16, 2017.

Suzanne Mettler (2011 Awardee) in "Why liberals should be happy about Trump’s appalling budget proposal" in The Washington Post, March 16, 2017 and In "Why Trump’s proposed budget cuts could make the “administrative state” more

Thedea Skocpol (1993 Awardee) in "Democrats, Republicans and the Explosive Politics of Health Insurance by Theda Skocpol" on PublicSeminar.org, March 16, 2017.

Joan Teno (2013 Awardee) in "Care received at end of life varies drastically by state" in Science Daily, March 15, 2017.

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John Lantos (2006 Awardee) in "A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Radioactive Oatmeal Go Down" on Smithsonian.com, March 8, 2017. He was also in "Would You Want Your Baby Tested For This Disease?" in WebMD, March 9, 2017.

Mark Schlesinger and Rachel Grob co-author, "Treating, Fast and Slow: Americans’ Understanding of and Responses to Low-Value Care" in The Milbank Quarterly, March 2017.

Sara Rosenbaum authors "Contraception as a Health Insurance Right: What Comes Next?" in The Milbank Quarterly, March 2017.

Chris Uggen (2009 Awardee) in "Life after prison: The 'sentence never ends'" in MPR News, March 8, 2017.

Alejandro Portes (2006 Awardee) and Rubén Rumbaut (HPR NAC Member) in "Assimilation, Not ‘Integration,’ Prevents Young Immigrants from Turning to Terrorism" in National Review, March 7, 2017.

Jason Karlawish (2008 Awardee) in "Docs Slam GOP's ACA Repeal and Replace Plan", in MedPage Today, March 7, 2017.

John Cawley (2013 Awardee and HPR) and David Frisvold (HPR alumnus) in "Sitting Down With a Soda Tax Expert" in Santa Fe Reporter, March 6, 2017.

Alejandro Portes (2006 Awardee) and Rubén G. Rumbaut (HPR NAC Member) in "The Making of a Mexican-American Dream" in Pacific Standard, March 6, 2017.

Jens Ludwig (2009 Awardee) in "How to Upgrade Judges with Machine Learning" in MIT Technology Review, March 6, 2017.

Howard Markel (2007 Awardee) in "Penicillin: Discovery, Benefits and Resistance" in LiveScience, February 27, 2017 and in "Viewed As A Flake, W.K. Kellogg Ended Up Redefining Breakfast" in Investors, March 4, 2017.

Gary Taubes (2008 Awardee) in "Billionaire John Arnold made a fortune at Enron. Now he's declared war on 'bad science'" in WIRED, March 3, 2017.

Aaron Kesselheim (2009 Awardee) in "Pharma Exec and Policy Scholar Spar Over High-Cost Drugs" in MedPage Today, March 2, 2017.

Linda Aiken (1998 Awardee) named "2017 recipient of the International Council of Nurses' (ICN) Christiane Reimann Prize", University of Pennsylvania, March 2017.

Linda Aiken (1998 Awardee) awarded 2017 recipient of the International Council of Nurses' (ICN) Christiane Reimann Prize, March 2017.

Michelle Mello (2007 Awardee) in "The Limits of Charity from a Drug Company" in The New Yorker, February 28, 2017.

Edward Maibach (2008 Awardee) in "The geography of American climate confusion: a visual guide" in CNN, February 28, 2017.

Aaron Kesselheim (2009 Awardee) in "Costly Drugs", in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), February 27, 2017.

Jennifer Hochschild (2009 Awardee) in "Just How Abnormal Is the Trump Presidency? Rating 20 Events" in the New York Times/Upshot, February 27, 2017.

Dorothy Roberts (2007 Awardee) in "Dorothy Roberts: What's Race Got to Do with Medicine?" on WPSU, February 24, 2017.

Ichiro Kawachi (1996 Awardee) in "Ichiro Kawachi: How wealth inequality fuels poor health, and vice versa" in Humanosphere, February 24, 2017.

Aaron Kesselheim (2009 Awardee) in "Big Pharma Quietly Enlists Leading Professors to Justify $1,000-a-Day Drugs" in Consumer Reports, February 23, 2017.

Gary Young (2006 Awardee) authors "Hospitals in the Post-ACA Era: Impacts and Responses," an Issue Brief commissioned by the Milbank Memorial Fund and the New England States Conso

Harold Pollack (2011 Awardee) writes "Enrollment freeze: ‘the cold shoulder’ for neediest In brazen attempt to freeze enrollment of low-income adults, GOP alleges Medicaid expansion siphons funding from disability services", on Health Insurance, February 22, 2017.

Gary Taubes (2008 Awardee) in "Jamie Vaught: Books on Obama, 2016 Presidential race among recommended reading offerings" in KYForward.com, February 21, 2017.

Matthew Nisbet (2008 Awardee) in "Scientists ponder how to talk to the faithful about climate change" in Religion News Service, February 19, 2017.

Howard Markel (2007 Awardee) in "Oscar nominated film ‘Hidden Figures’ inspires celebration of African American female physicians" in Atlanta Daily World, February 17, 2017.

Colleen Grogan (1997 Awardee) co-authors "The Racial Divide in State Medicaid Expansions" in Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law, Vol. 42, Number 3, pp. 539-572, February 17, 2017.

Greg Duncan (2009 Awardee) in "US: Researchers plan study of basic income’s effects on children’s brains" in BIEN, February 16, 2017.

Matthew Nisbet (2008 Awardee) in "Tough Call: Trust And Bias In A Changing Media Landscape", in the Tribune 242, February 15, 2017.

Jason Karlawish (2008 Awardee) in "The New Offensive on Alzheimer’s Disease: Stop it Before it Starts" in Newsweek, February 16, 2017, and in "Antipsychotics Found Ineffective for Patients with Delirium in Palliative Care: Strategies Offered for B

Aaron Kesselheim (2009 Awardee) in "Itchy skin? Do NOT go to your dermatologist: Primary care doctors prescribe cheaper creams, study claims", in DailyMail.com, February 15, 2017.

Aaron Kesselheim (2009 Awardee) in "Slow Medicine: Good Reads" on MedPage Today, January 8, 2017, and co-authors "New 21st Century Cures" Legislation: Speed and Ease vs Science" in The Journal of American Medical Association, 317(6), pp. 581-582, February 14, 2017.

Amy Dockser Marcus (2006 Awardee) wrote "Scientific report opens door to gene editing" in The Wall Street Journal, February 14, 2017.

Frank Levy (2007 Awardee) in "Robots Will Take Jobs, but Not as Fast as Some Fear, New Report Says" in CNBC.com, February 13, 2017.

Edward Maibach (2008 Awardee) in "Mish Michaels isn’t alone: Many meteorologists question climate change science" in The Boston Globe, February 13, 2017.

Theda Skocpol (1993 Awardee) in "Here's how you can deal with Trump" in the Independent Record, February 12, 2017.

Aaron Kesselheim (2009 Awardee) in "An old drug gets a new price to fight a rare disease: $89,000 a year" in the Albuquerque Journal, February 10, 2017.

Frank Levy (2007 Awardee) in "Why Artificial Intelligence Might Replace Your Lawyer" in OZY, February 10, 2017.

Harold Pollack (2011 Awardee) in "Trump Orders Crackdown on Drug Trafficking and Anti-Cop Violence" on NBC News, February 9, 2017 and in "Obamacare repeal gives hope for advocates of single payer healthcare" on FSRN, February 10, 2017.

Sandro Galea (2006 Awardee) in “How Research Funding For Gun Violence Came To A Halt” on WRLN, February 9, 2017.

Richard Kronick (1998 Awardee) in "Medicare could overpay Medicare advantage plans by $200 billion over ten years" in Science Daily, February 7, 2017.

Peter Ubel (2007 Awardee) writes “Are Your Healthcare Prices Outrageous? Here’s What Happens When Prices Come Out Of The Dark” in Forbes, February 6, 2017.

Sandro Galea (2006 Awardee) co-authors "Cigarette Smoking Is Associated With Increased Risk of Substance Use Disorder Relapse: A Nationally Representative, Prospective Longitudinal Investigation" in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, February 2017.

Jason Karlawish (2008 Awardee) in “Simple home design changes make life easier for Alzheimer patients” in The Californian, February 3, 2017 and in “Bill Lyon named ‘Most Courageous’ for battle with ‘Al’

Gary Young (2006 Awardee) is the P.I. for a new grant from the National Institute for Health Care Management focusing in the patterns and determinates of inappropriate diagnostic imaging.

Harold Pollack (2011 Awardee) in "Medicaid Flexibility for States Called Easiest Way to Alter Obamacare" in Bloomberg, February 1, 2017.

Debra Umberson (2011 Awardee) in "Reuters Health News Summary" on DailyMail.com, February 1, 2017.

Aaron Kesselheim (2009 Awardee) in "Peter Thiel vs. the FDA" in Vox, January 31, 2017.

Peter Ubel (2007 Awardee) in "Do physicians dismiss patients’ financial concerns?" in Modern Medicine Network, February 1, 2017.

Neal Hooker (2008 Awardee) in "Label Insight Arms Leading Researchers with Data to Drive Change Across the Food industry" in PR Newswire, January 31, 2017.

Julie Fairman (2006 Awardee) in "The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Receives 2017 Future of Nursing Scholars Grant to Prepare PhD Nurses" on NewsWise, January 31, 2017.

Neal Hooker (2008 Awardee) in "Label Insight Arms Leading Researchers with Data to Drive Change Across the Food industry" in PR Newswire, January 31, 2017.

Gary Taubes (2008 Awardee) in "If Sugar is Harmless, Prove It" in The New York Times, January 25, 2017, and in "What's Making us Fat? Inside the Sugar Wars?", in Toronto Metro, January 27, 2017.

Jason Karlawish (2008 Awardee) in "Grandma and the TV remote: Can this problem be solved?" in Philly.com, January 27, 2017.

Sandro Galea (2006 Awardee) in "Scientists are quickly mobilizing to protest Trump" in Vox, January 27, 2017, elected inaugural president of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science, 2016 and invited to serve as

Jason Karlawish (2008 Awardee) in "Are design choices more important than medication for Alzheimer's patients?" in Philly.com, January 26, 2017.

Harold Pollack (2011 Awardee) in "Could Republicans wreck Medicaid?" on healthinsurance.org, January 26, 2017.

Joseph Fins (2006 Awardee) writes "Why advances in treating those with brain injuries require advances in respecting their rights" in The Conversation, January 26, 2017.

Alexandra Minna Stern (2007 Awardee) in “Forgotten role of reproductive justice in Zika crisis” in Medical Xpress, January 26, 2017.

Alexandra Minna Stern (2007 Awardee) in "Eugenics Rubicon: Uncovering America’s Dark History Of Forced Sterilization" on KJZZ 91.5, January 25, 2017.

Howard Markel (2007 Awardee) in “The infectious disease that sprung Al Capone from Alcatraz” on WGBH, January 25, 2017.

Harold Pollack (2011 Awardee) in "Social Sciences Professors Talk Implications of Trump Presidency at Pre-Inauguration Panels" in the Chicago Maroon, January 20, 2017, in "Obamacare is not ‘toast" on healthinsurance.org, January 20, 2017, and in "

Debra Umberson (2011 Awardee) in “US blacks experience far more deaths in the family: study” in Daily Nation, January 24, 2017,  and in “Black Americans May Suffer Disproportionately From Family Deaths” in Refinery29, January 25, 2017.

Debra Umberson (2011 Awardee) co-authors "Death of family members as an overlooked source of racial disadvantage in the United States" in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 114, No. 5, pp. 915-920, January 23, 2017.

Howard Markel (2007 Awardee) in "Medicine, Morality and the Tale of the First Female Doctor" on WUNC 91.5, January 20, 2017

Cathy Cohen (2004 Awardee) and HPR Scholar and Harold Pollack (2011 Awardee) in "Social Sciences Professors Talk Implications of Trump Presidency at Pre-Inauguration Panels" in The Chicago Marron, January 20, 2017.

Jens Ludwig (2009 Awardee) authors report, "Gun Violence in Chicago, 2016", UChicago Crime Lab, January 19, 2017.

Sandro Galea (2006 Awardee) in "Researchers: Trump Win Alters Conversation on Gun Violence" in TownHall, January 19, 2017, and in "Gun Control: Obama's Biggest Policy Failing?" on WNYC, January 19, 2017

Jens Ludwig (2009 Awardee) in "Crime Lab Stumped by Severe Spike in Homicides in 2016" in DNA Info/Chicago, January 18, 2017

Jens Ludwig (2009 Awardee) in “U of C’s Crime Lab Report Examines Chicago’s Deadly Year” on WTTW Chicago Tonight,  January 18, 2016.

Gary Taubes (2008 Awardee) in "The Most Popular Theory About What Causes Obesity May Be Very Wrong" in Mother Jones, January 16, 2017, and in "A look at the high costs of sugar and where the industry went wrong" in BNN, January 16, 2017

Gary Young (2006 Awardee) co-authors "Management of Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans and Medication Adherence: A Conceptual Framework and Empirical Analysis" in Medical Care, Vol. 55, Issue 1, pp. 37-42, January 17, 2017.

John Cawley (2013 Awardee) Kosali Simon (HPR NAC) co-author, "The Impact of Health Insurance on Preventive Care and Health Behaviors: Evidence from the 2014 ACA Medicaid Expansions" in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2016.

S.V. Subramanian (2009 Awardee) in "As Debbie Reynolds reminded us, grief can make us sick" in USA Today, January 15, 2017.

Sara Rosenbaum (2000  Awardee) co-authors "Pay For Success And Population Health: Early Results From Eleven Projects Reveal Challenges And Promise" in Health Affairs, January 2017

Gary Taubes (2008 Awardee) in "Gary Taubes bites into our national obsession with sweets" in Grist, January 11, 2017 and in "The Case Against Sugar by Gary Taubes - Review" in the Evening Standard, January 12, 2017

Jens Ludwig (2009 Awardee) in "A Small Private Sale Loophole Suggests We're Closer to University Background Checks Than We Thought", The Trace, January 12, 2017

Gary Young (2006 Awardee) co-authors, "The Progress of US Hospitals in Addressing Community Health Needs" in American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 107 No. 2, pp. 255-261, January 11, 2017.

Lawrence P. Casalino (1999 Awardee) co-authors "Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records by Outpatient Physicians and Readmissions of Medicare Fee-for-Service Beneficiaries" in Medicare, Vol. 55, Issue 5, pp. 493-400, January 10, 2017.

Harold Pollack (2011 Awardee) authors "Seven Question About Health Reform" in The New York Times, January 10, 2017

John Cawley (2013 Awardee) in "Philly’s Soda Tax Will Disproportionately Hurt the Poor" in Economics 21, January 9, 2017

Suzanne Mettler (2011 Awardee) in "Next Steps in the Fight for Public Higher Education" in Truthout, January 6, 2017

Gary Taubes (2008 Awardee) in "Sweet tooth: How sugar became the world's drug of choice" on The Week, January 5, 2017, in "Is Sugar the World's Most Popular Drug?" on The Guardian, January 5, 2017, in "

Theda Skocpol (1993 Awardee) in "A guide to rebuilding the Democratic Party, from the ground up" in Vox, January 5, 2017.

Alexandra Minna Stern (2007 Awardee) in "Sunlight sheds light on Congress’ hidden anti-ethics vote" in The Sacramento Bee, January 4, 2017

John Cawley (2013 Investigator) in "Essay: Death of Carrie Fisher a reminder for women to guard their hearts" in NewsWorks, January 2, 2017

Sandro Galea (2006 Awardee) in "6 New Year’s Resolutions to Create a Healthier World in 2017" in Fortune, December 29, 2016.

Aaron Kesselheim (2009 Awardee) in "Eteplirsen Approval Seen as Marking New Direction at FDA" in MedPage Today, December 28, 2016, in "The demonization of Peter Thiel" in The Hill, December 27, 2016, and in "

Ilan Meyer (2008 Awardee) in "LGBT individuals more likely to be incarcerated", in Grand Fork Herald, December 23, 2016

Amy Dockser Marcus (2006 Awardee) in "For Those with Voiceless, the Gift of Voice", in Philanthropy Today, December 21, 2016

Gary Taubes (2008 Awardee) in "How Sugar Helped Hook America on Cigarettes", in Bloomberg, December 12, 2016 and in "The Sugar Wars" in The Atlantic, January/February 2017.

Alejandro Portes (2006 Awardee) in "Lester: Illinois electors won't change votes" in DailyHerald, December 19, 2016

Jennifer Hochschild (2009 Awardee) in "White Supremacy Is Not an Illness" in "Truthout", December 19, 2016

Sandro Galea (2006 Awardee) in "How Does the Well-Being in your State Stack-up" in The Christian Science Monitor, December 16, 2016

Gary Taubes (2008 Awardee) in "Why Sugar is Bad for You" in The Economist, December 15, 2016

S.V. Subramanian (2009 Awardee) co-authors "Dispelling the nice or naughty myth: retrospective observational study of Santa Claus" in The BMJ, 355, December 14, 2016.

Aaron Kesselheim (2009 Awardee) authors "Approving a Problematic Muscular Dystrophy Drug: Implications for FDA Policy" in The Journal of American Medical Association, 316(22) pp.

Eric Patashnik (2009 Awardee) in "Conservatives often try to shred the safety net. But programs that provide benefits to many are hard to kill" in the Washington Post, December 12, 2016

David R. Williams (1994 Awardee) co-authors, "Understanding County-Level, Cause-Specific Mortality: The Great Value—and Limitations—of Small Area Data" in The Journal of American Medical Association, 316(22), pp.

Robert J. Sampson (2004 Awardee) in "The Persistent Inequality of Neighborhoods", in City Lab, December 9, 2016

Cathy Cohen (Alumna) quoted and book mentioned in "Women Also Know Stuff about the 2016 Election" in Vox, December 9, 2016

Dorothy Roberts (2007 Awardee) quoted in "Rewire" news article, "Report Sheds Light on Plight of Parents in Custody Cases Involving Child Abuse" on December 7, 2016

Suzanne Mettler (Investigator 2011) had her book "The Submerged State" mentioned in "Watch Out for Even More Tax Breaks -- for the Rich" in The Prospect, December 8, 2016

Gary Taubes (2008 Awardee) quoted in "The Silencing of a Low-Carb Rebel" in Outside, December 8, 2016

Alexandra Minna Stern (2007 Awardee) quoted in "Fox News" news article, "Historians seek reparations for Californians forcibly sterilized" on December 6, 2016.

Lainie Friedman Ross (2013 Awardee) writes a History News Network news article, titled: "When Is Someone Dead?" on December 4, 2016.

Dr. Joseph Fins (2006 Awardee) selected as 2016-17 fellow ambassador of the New York Academy of Medicine, December 2, 2016.

Jennifer Hochschild (2009 Awardee) wrote a news article in "Social Science Space" titled: "On Race in America" December 1, 2016

Gary Young (2006 Awardee) co-authors "Modifying Hospital Community Benefit Ta

Martin Gaynor (1994 Awardee) was quoted in “How Trump could reduce or eliminate Obamacare” on WXPI News, November 9, 2016.

Richard Scheffler (2008 Awardee) mentioned in the "Capital Radio Station" on-line news article, "The Reasoning Behind Prop. 61's Rejection By Californians" November 16, 2016.

Alan Gerber (2008 Awardee) mentioned in the "Business Insider/Science" news article, "Why people don't vote and what to do about it" November 8, 2016.

Edward Maibach (2008 Alumnus) was mentioned in the news article

Theda Skocpol (1993 Awardee) discussed in "Theda Skocpol Responds to Judis" on Talking Points Memo, November 11, 2016.

John Brekke (2009 Awardee) co-authors "How Occupationally High-Achieving Individuals With a Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Manage Their Symptoms" in the Journal of Psychiatric Services, Vol. 68, Issue 4, pp. 324-329, Published online: November 15, 2016.

Harold Pollack (2011 Awardee) wrote "There’s no silver lining to Trump’s win. We have to make our own." in The Washington Post, November 13, 2016.

Harold Pollack (2011 Awardee) was quoted in "As crime surges, more neighborhoods are caught in its grip" in The Chicago Tribune, November 15, 2016.

Michelle Mello (2007 Awardee) was quoted in "Prop. 61: Big Pharma scores expensive win on California ballot measure" in The San Jose Mercury News, November 10, 2016.

Aaron Kesselheim (2009 Awardee) was quoted in "5 questions raised at the FDA's off-label hearing" on Medical Marketing & Media, November 10, 2016.

Peter Ubel (2007 Awardee) wrote "Physician Pay and the Value of a Hug" on MedPageToday, November 10, 2016.

Sandro Galea (Awardee 2006) co-authors "US Traffic Fatalities, 1985–2014, and Their Relationship to Medical Marijuana Laws" in American Journal of Public Health, Nov 13, 2016.

Gary Taubes (2008 Awardee) book "Good Calories Bad Calories" quotes in "Yahoo News" news article, "Ten Questions with Gregory Kearns of Heifer International", November 11, 2016.

Stephen Hinshaw (2008 Awardee) had his book "The ADHD Explosion: Myths, Medication, Money, and Today's Push for Performance" referenced in "

Peter Ubel (2007 Awardee) was cited in “Weighty Issues in RA: Patient Care & Rheumatology Network” on MedPage Today, November 8, 2016.

Edward Maibach (2008 Awardee) was quoted in “Trump’s Election Couth Threaten Global Climate Change Agreement” on Scientific American, November 9,

Suzanne Mettler (2011 Awardee) was quoted in "Clinton Lost the Economic Argument" in Slate, November 9, 2016.

Harold Pollack (2011 Awardee) wrote "Law enforcement loves Trump. It makes policing minority communities much harder." in The Washington Post, November 7, 2016.

John Cawley (2013 Awardee) was quoted in "Soda prices may only partly bubble up if taxes pass" on Phys, November 3, 2016.

Edward Maibach (2008 Awardee) was quoted in "The average U.S. family destroys a football field's worth of Arctic sea ice every 30 years" in Science Magazine, November 3, 2016.

Harold Pollack (2011 Awardee) was featured in "Move Over, Katy Perry. This Nerdy Professor Has His Own Closing Argument To Make For Clinton" in The Huffington Post, November 7, 2016.

Frank Levy (2007 Awardee) was mentioned in "Automated Cars Could Threaten Jobs of Professional Drivers" in Sci-Tech Today, November 3, 2016.

Ronald Bayer (2001 Awardee) co-authored the news article, "The Paradox of Authority — Transformation of the USPSTF under the Affordable Care Act" in the New England Journal of Medicine, November 3, 2016.

Suzanne Mettler (Investigator 2011) had her book “The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy” referenced in the news article

Aaron Kesselheim (2009 Awardee) was mentioned in "Off-Label Promotion: Researchers Call on Courts to Reject Caronia" in Regulatory Affairs Professional Society, November 3, 2016.

Nicholas Christakis (2000 Awardee) mentioned in the "San Diego Union-Tribune" news article, "Facebook friendships linked to lower death risk" October 31, 2016.

Harold Pollack (2011 Awardee) and David Meltzer (2007 were Awardee) both mentioned in "The Chicago Maroon" news article, "As Premiums Jump, Conference Considers Obamacare's Performance" November 1, 2016.

Aaron Kesselheim (2009 Awardee) quoted in the WUNC 91.5 Chapel Hill online radio "Diane Rehm Show" titled: "How some hospitals are replacing pricy EpiPens with a $10 version" on November 2, 2016.

Alan Gerber (2008 Awardee) quoted in “Strait Times” news article, "Worst campaign in modern history", October 31, 2016.

Gary Taubes (2008 Awardee) was quoted in the "Chicago Crusader" news article, "Proposed Tax on Sweetened Drinks Leaves Sour Taste in Citizens’ Mouths" on October 31, 2016.

Joseph Fins (2006 Awardee) was interviewed in "Urban Health Matters / Medium Corporation" commentary article titled: "Healthcare: The Lost Issue of Presidential Election 2016" on October 24, 2016.

Lainie Friedman Ross (2013 Awardee) had her study cited in the article,

Sandro Galea (2006 Awardee) had his research cited in the article,

Howard Markel (2007 Awardee) was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Service Award by the University of Michigan Medical School and University of Michigan Medical Center Alumni Society, October 2016.

Cathy Cohen (2004 Awardee) had her research referenced in "When young people get involved in online communities, it leads them toward politics" in The Washington Post, October 21, 2016.

Sandro Galea (2006 Awardee) was quoted in "'NYC Well' Is NYC's New 24/7 Mental Health Hotline" on Gothamist, October 24, 2016.

Sara Rosenbaum (2000 Awardee) was quoted in "Experts Say It Could Be A Make Or Break Year For Obamacare" on NPR, October 20, 2016.

Lainie Ross (2013 Awardee) "When Should Children Take Part in Medical Decisions?" in The New York Times, September 20, 2016.

Michelle Mello (2007 Awardee) was quoted in the article “Big pharma spending big dollars to defeat California measure” on The Sacramento Bee, October 8, 2016.

Aaron Kesselheim (2009 Awardee) co-authors  "Approving a Problematic Muscular Dystrophy Drug"in The Journal of the American Medical Association,  published online on October 24, 2016.

Gary J. Young (2006 Awardee) had his study cited in “Data-based Evidence Drives Efficient Cath Lab Inventory Management” on Cardiovascular Business, September 28, 2016.

Harold Pollack (2011 Awardee) was quoted in the article “Obamacare Exchanges Are a Mess and It’s Not Really Obama’s Fault” in Fortune, October 4, 2016.

Harold Pollack (2011 Awardee) was quoted in the article “Media Outlets Correct Trump’s Characterization Of Bill Clinton’s Obamacare Comments” on Media Matters, October 5, 2016. 

Joseph Fins (2006 Awardee) was quoted in the Los Angeles Times news article, "DNA database could help predict your disease — then get you fired", October 14, 2016

Joan Teno (Investigator 2013) was quoted in HealthCare Business news article, "ICU Ventilators Overused Among Advanced-Dementia Patients" October 11, 2016.

Suzanne Mettler (2011 Awardee) was mentioned in the Huffington Post news article, "In The Spirit Of The GI Bill, Cancel All Student Debt" October 12, 2016.

David Blumenthal (2002 Awardee) was selected to chair the 2016 National Academy of Medicine Lienhard Award, October 17, 2016.

Martin Gaynor (1994 Awardee), James M. Perrin (1997 Awardee), and Bernice Pescosolido (1999 Awardee) are newly elected members at the National Academy of Medicine, October 2016. 

Harold Pollack (2011 Awardee) wrote "Trump’s ‘Miss Housekeeping’ comment shows his contempt for the working class" in The Washington Post, September 27, 2016.

Jason Karlawish (2008 Awardee) was quoted in the article, "How to talk with a stubborn parent about health issues" on Philly.com, September 29, 2016.

Howard Markel (2007 Awardee) was quoted in the article, "A Bygone Era: When Bipartisanship Led To Health Care Transformation" in NPR Health News, October 2, 2016.

Peter Ubel (2007 Awardee) co-authors "Copay assistance for expensive drugs: a helping hand that raises costs" in Annals of Internal Medicine, 165(12), pp. 878-879, October 11, 2016.