Marcella Alsan is a physician-economist studying 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 University, and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. She trained at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Howard Hiatt Global Health Equity Residency Fellowship – then combined the PhD training with an Infectious Disease Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Prior to returning to Harvard she was tenured at Stanford. She is Co-Editor of the Journal of Health Economics and Co-Chair of the Health Care Delivery Initiative of Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab based out of MIT, 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 and in 2021 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. For more information please see https://www.healthinequalitylab.org/
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