Yahoo Finance highlights ICH’s research on immigrant contributions to the health care system
Yahoo Finance highlighted ICH’s recent research on immigrant contributions to the American health care system. This work was started by ICH’s late Director of Research Leah Zallman, who passed away in November 2019, and was completed by ICH Epidemiologists Lynsie Ranker and Ben Ubani, in collaboration with Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein. Read the article […]
In praise of discomfort: a dia-blog
CF: I am white, and I am 43. When I was a kid in the 1980s and 90s, in a pretty white/segregated community in New Hampshire, my grownups knew about racism. My grownups had lived through the civil rights movements of the 60s and 70s, and were liberals, and were hopeful that when my generation […]
Thoughts on centering communities in research
One of ICH’s core service areas is applied research, and I have been thinking about how our work contributes to health equity and how we can do more to create value for the communities that participate in our research. Traditionally, researchers set out to seek information and knowledge from communities in hopes of benefitting them, […]
New article by ICH Board member Joseph Restuccia on COVID-19 vaccine access and equity
Joseph Restuccia, a member of ICH’s Board of Directors, wrote a short article on Insights@Questrom (by Boston University Questrom School of Business) about the COVID-19 vaccine and health equity. In the article, Dr. Restuccia discusses social determinants that affect access, reasons for racial inequities in receipt of the vaccine, and ideas for how to improve […]
Employee Spotlight Interview: Andrés Hoyos-Céspedes
How would you describe your role at ICH? I describe it as a rather very flexible role that often feels like a mix of different roles. It’s hard to get bored as a researcher. Furthermore, I know we are evaluators and that would be our main role in many of the projects we work in. So, what […]
Moving Forward
For people all around the world, 2020 was a year like no other for a multitude of reasons we know all too well. In retrospect, it appears as though the groundwork for creating such a tumultuous twelve months was evident at the very start of the new decade as we witnessed environmental chaos in Australia […]