Political Analysis

Dissertation Title: "Essays on Criminal Health Law and Policy"

How does criminal law enforcement affect health? This dissertation addresses this question through three studies that employ mixed empirical methodologies. Using descriptive quantitative...

Rachel received her BA in Politics and Linguistics with honors from New York University. She has an MPP from Georgetown University, where she completed a graduate thesis examining the socioeconomic impacts of a state law targeting providers of...

Cordelia Kwon received a BA in Global Public Health and Anthropology from New York University in 2021. Following graduation, she worked as a Senior Policy Associate at J-PAL North America, supporting randomized evaluations of social policies and...

Lauren Gullett received her BS in Neuroscience with a minor in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2020. Following graduation, Lauren completed a postbaccalaureate research fellowship with the National Institute of...

Shira Hornstein is a student in the MD-PhD program at Harvard Medical School. She graduated from Dartmouth College in 2021 with dual B.A.s in Government and Biology. During her undergraduate studies, Shira worked on diverse research projects. As a James O...

Gabriella (Gaby) Aboulafia graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government with an MPP in 2023. She received her BS in Public Health through the Department of Health Policy and Management at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health in 2019...

Amanda M. Gutierrez received her B.A. in Kinesiology with a minor in Global Health Technologies from Rice University in 2013 and her M.P.H. in Global Health with a concentration in Maternal and Child Health from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public...

J. Wyatt Koma is a PhD candidate in Harvard’s Health Policy program, with a concentration in political analysis. Much of his current research agenda focuses on understanding how to improve access to health care and health outcomes for low-income Americans...