Kristen Mathias is an Internal Medicine Resident at the University of Chicago. She can be reached at Kristen.Mathias@uchospitals.edu. Daniel Cabrera is a faculty member in the University of Washington Department of Medicine and contributed to this article.The ... More »
Covid-19 shocked the US health system when it first arrived in 2020. The immediate direct consequences were obvious, but with such a dramatic event there will inevitably be many more delayed or indirect consequences of the pandemic and lockdown. Researchers ar... More »
China’s role on the international arena has been rising prominently. Even with a pandemic engulfing the entire globe since early 2020, the country is still attempting to accelerate its global impact. On January 9, 2021, China’s Ministry of Commerce announced t... More »
While much of the US economy limped through 2020, one sector saw enormous growth: food delivery apps, like Grubhub and DoorDash. Their premise is simple, in exchange for providing a payment platform and delivering the food, these delivery apps take a percentag... More »
Deciphering the causal effects, or “treatment effects”, of different educational designs on student outcomes is an increasingly difficult task in the United States. Understanding these effects is vitally important in order to provide students with the best opp... More »
David Alan Johnson is a second-year MPP student and Pearson Fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy and Research Assistant at the Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability Lab at the University of Chicago.As the United States celebrates Juneteenth, a ... More »
The inaugural UC Juneteenth 2021 initiative comes in the wake of a global pandemic that exposed widespread health inequities in marginalized communities, political tumult, demand for an end to police brutality, and an overall resurgence of the Black Lives Matt... More »
Sarthak Aggarwal is an MS1 at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He can be reached at Sarthak.Aggarwal@uchospitals.edu.The COVID-19 pandemic remains at the forefront of public life, claiming the lives of countless Americans and leaving many... More »
Alex Rains is an MS1 at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She can be reached at alex.rains@uchospitals.eduOverdose deaths have been a serious public health concern in the United States for many years, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only hig... More »
The strategic decision by Mexican drug cartels to assassinate local government officials and politicians in the past 15 years has been surprising, to say the least. Since the 1990s cartels understood that their success depended on remaining out of the spotligh... More »
Siobhan McDonough, Noah Berman, and Eliana Fram contributed to this piece.A Harris Community Action team, in coordination with the Chicago non-profit Equiticity, found evidence that implementing an open streets program similar to Bogota’s ciclovía could effec... More »
Immigration is a perennial source of debate in the United States. Debates tend to focus on low-skilled immigrants – their legal status, employability, country of origin, and even potential threat to national security. In recent years, however, high-skilled leg... More »