Marcella Alsan
Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Marcella Alsan is Director of the Health Inequality Lab and a Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. 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. Alsan trained at Brigham and Women’s Hospital 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 on faculty at Stanford. She is an applied microeconomist studying health inequality.
In recognition and support of her work studying the causes and consequences of health disparities, Alsan was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2021. She is the co-recipient of the 2019 Arrow Award for Best Paper in Health Economics and the 2021 William G. Manning Memorial Award for the Best Research in Health Econometrics. Alsan 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 (J-PAL) based out of MIT. She is additionally Co-Chair of the Economics of Health Equity Interest Group at the American Society of Health Economists. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
