Marcella Alsan

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Marcella Alsan is affiliated with the following schools: Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, University of California, San Francisco, Loyola University Chicago, Stanford University

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Marcella Alsan

Economics

#3160

World Rank

#3578

Historical Rank

#964

USA Rank

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Marcella Alsan's Degrees

Doctorate Medicine University of California, San Francisco

Why Is Marcella Alsan Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, Marcella Alsan is an infectious disease physician and an applied microeconomist studying health inequality. She is currently a professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and was previously an associate professor of medicine at Stanford University. She uses randomized evaluations and historical public health natural experiments to study how infectious disease, human capital, and economic outcomes interact. She has studied the effects of the Tuskegee Syphills Experiment on health care utilization and mortality among Black men. Alsan was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2021.

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Marcella Alsan's Published Works

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Published Papers

Does Diversity Matter for Health? Experimental Evidence from Oakland (2018) (390)
The Effect of the Tsetse Fly on African Development (2015) (283)
Tuskegee and the Health of Black Men (2016) (262)
The effect of population health on foreign direct investment inflows to low- and middle-income countries (2006) (227)
Disparities in Coronavirus 2019 Reported Incidence, Knowledge, and Behavior Among US Adults (2020) (189)
Watersheds in Child Mortality: The Role of Effective Water and Sewerage Infrastructure, 1880–1920 (2015) (136)
Poverty, Global Health, and Infectious Disease: Lessons from Haiti and Rwanda (2011) (84)
Out-of-pocket health expenditures and antimicrobial resistance in low- and middle-income countries (2015) (69)
Messages on Covid-19 Prevention in India Increased Symptoms Reporting and Adherence to Preventive Behaviors Among 25 Million Recipients with Similar Effects on Non-Recipient Members of Their Communities (2020) (68)
Fear and the Safety Net: Evidence from Secure Communities (2018) (67)
Girls' education and HIV risk: evidence from Uganda. (2013) (63)
The Effect of Population Health on Foreign Direct Investment (2004) (63)
Acinetobacter baumannii: An Emerging and Important Pathogen. (2010) (60)
Comparison of Knowledge and Information-Seeking Behavior After General COVID-19 Public Health Messages and Messages Tailored for Black and Latinx Communities (2020) (59)
The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis: A Case Study in Peripheral Trauma with Implications for Health Professionals (2019) (47)
Typhoid conjugate vaccines: a new tool in the fight against antimicrobial resistance. (2019) (47)
Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis (2020) (39)
Effects of a large-scale social media advertising campaign on holiday travel and COVID-19 infections: a cluster randomized controlled trial (2021) (33)
The Great Unequalizer: Initial Health Effects of COVID-19 in the United States (2021) (28)
The Consequences of Population Health for Economic Performance (2006) (27)
End COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries. (2022) (23)
Effect of Physician-Delivered COVID-19 Public Health Messages and Messages Acknowledging Racial Inequity on Black and White Adults’ Knowledge, Beliefs, and Practices Related to COVID-19 (2021) (20)
Trends in Mortality Rates Among Medicare Enrollees With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias Before and During the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic. (2022) (19)
Beyond infrastructure. (2017) (18)
Sociodemographic Correlates of Medical Mistrust among African American Men Living in the East Bay (2020) (16)
Antibiotic Use in Cold and Flu Season and Prescribing Quality: A Retrospective Cohort Study (2015) (16)
Poverty and Community-Acquired Antimicrobial Resistance with Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase–Producing Organisms, Hyderabad, India (2018) (15)
Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Non-Experts for Improving Vaccine Demand (2021) (14)
A commitment contract to achieve virologic suppression in poorly adherent patients with HIV/AIDS (2017) (14)
The Gendered Spillover Effect of Young Children&Apos;S Health on Human Capital: Evidence from Turkey (2017) (13)
Childhood Illness and the Gender Gap in Adolescent Education in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (2017) (12)
Mistrust in Medicine: The Legacy of Colonial Medical Campaigns in Central Africa* (2016) (11)
Persuasion in Medicine: Messaging to Increase Vaccine Demand (2021) (8)
Plasmid-mediated antibiotic resistance among uropathogens in primigravid women—Hyderabad, India (2020) (7)
Beyond Infrastructure: Understanding Why Patients Decline Surgery in the Developing World An Observational Study in Cameroon (2017) (6)
The Long-Term E↵ects of the Printing Press in Sub-Saharan Africa (2014) (6)
Risk factors for AIDS-defining illnesses among a population of poorly adherent people living with HIV/AIDS in Atlanta, Georgia (2015) (6)
Religion and Sanitation Practices (2019) (4)
Doctors' and Nurses' Social Media Ads Reduced Holiday Travel and COVID-19 Infections: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial (2021) (3)
Candida albicans cervical lymphadenitis in patients who have acute myeloid leukemia. (2011) (3)
Why Did HIV Decline in Uganda? (2010) (3)
Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials (2022) (2)
Tularemia presenting as a cervical abscess (2010) (2)
DESIGNING EFFECTIVE CELEBRITY PUBLIC HEALTH MESSAGING: RESULTS FROM A NATIONWIDE TWITTER EXPERIMENT IN INDONESIA (2020) (2)
Technological Progress and Health Convergence: The Case of Penicillin in Postwar Italy. (2021) (2)
DESIGNING EFFECTIVE CELEBRITY MESSAGING: RESULTS FROM A NATIONWIDE TWITTER EXPERIMENT ON PUBLIC HEALTH IN INDONESIA (2020) (2)
Why Diverse Clinical Trial Participation Matters. (2023) (1)
JAMA Network Open Peer Reviewers in 2019. (2020) (1)
Understanding the Success of the Know-Nothing Party (2020) (1)
Risk factors for AIDS-defining illnesses among a cohort of poorly adherent people living with HIV / AIDS in Atlanta , Georgia (2015) (1)
The ABCDs of Health : Explaining the Reduction in AIDS in Uganda (2010) (1)
Can a Trusted Messenger Change Behavior when Information is Plentiful? Evidence from the First Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic in West Bengal (2022) (1)
PLOS Medicine 2017 Reviewer and Editorial Board Thank You (2018) (1)
Beyond Causality: Additional Benefits of Randomized Controlled Trials for Improving Health Care Delivery. (2021) (1)
Technological Progress and Health Convergence: The Case of Penicillin in Post-War Italy (2019) (1)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CIVIL LIBERTIES IN TIMES OF CRISIS (2020) (0)
COVID-19 Thanksgiving Messaging at Scale (2020) (0)
COVID-19 Health Messaging to Underserved Communities (2020) (0)
Innovation and Inequality: A Randomized Experiment with Patients (2022) (0)
Increasing the Efficacy & Diffusion of Covid-19 Messaging for Vaccination (2021) (0)
Persuasion in Medicine: Experimental Evidence on Sender and Signal Effects (2019) (0)
Innovation and Inequality: A Randomized Experiment with Physicians (2022) (0)
Persuasion in Health (2019) (0)
Infectious Diseases and Economic Development (2013) (0)
Quality of local healthcare facilities and deciding on in-facility delivery: identifying contributors to healthcare-seeking behavior among pregnant Malawian women (2016) (0)
The Impact of Large-Scale Social Media Advertising Campaigns on COVID-19 Vaccination: Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials (2022) (0)
Minnesota COVID-19 Testing (2020) (0)
Maternal Health and Development (2016) (0)
Link to Online Supplemental Appendix (2021) (0)
Malaria and Infant and Child Health (2016) (0)
The Health of Democracies During the Pandemic: Results from a Randomized Survey Experiment (2023) (0)
OFFENCES AGAINST TRADE SECRETS (2009) (0)
PC42. The Epidemiology of Postoperative Catastrophic Health Expenditure in The United States (2023) (0)
NO . 2019-44 Religion and Sanitation Practices (2019) (0)
Covid-19 Messaging to Underserved Communities - 2nd Experiment (2020) (0)
Health Care in U.S. Correctional Facilities - A Limited and Threatened Constitutional Right. (2023) (0)
Civil Liberties, Economic Slowdown, and Public Health during the time of Pandemic: A Cross-Country Randomized Trial (2020) (0)
Why Does Diversity Matter for Health? (2019) (0)
The E ¤ ect of the TseTse Fly on African Development ( Job Market Paper ) (2012) (0)

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