#  Marcella Alsan, MD MPH PhD  

 



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Marcella Alsan is a physician-economist studying the economics of health inequality domestically and internationally. Alsan received a BA from Harvard University, a master’s in public health from Harvard School of Public Health, a MD from Loyola and a PhD in Economics from Harvard. She trained at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Howard Hiatt Global Health Equity Residency Fellowship – then combined the PhD with an Infectious Disease Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Prior to returning to Harvard she was tenured at Stanford. She is Associate Editor at the *Journal of Economic Literature* and Co-Chair of the Health Care Delivery Initiative of Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT. She is co-recipient of the 2019 Arrow Award for Best Paper in Health Economics, the 2021 William G. Manning Memorial Award for the Best Research in Health Econometrics, recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was elected into the National Academy of Medicine in 2022. She co-directs the Health Inequality Lab at Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

\- For more information on the **Health Inequality Lab** please see <https://www.healthinequalitylab.org/>

\- For Marcella Alsan's CV click [**here**](https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6de309z780fz2xn9pv11k/cv_malsan.pdf?rlkey=p0mcb6r9xya1sebajt6q78p2o&dl=0)