Harold Pollack
Fellow
Harold Pollack is the Helen Ross Professor at the School of Social Service Administration, and faculty chair of the Center for Health Administration Studies. He is also Co-Director of The University of Chicago Crime Lab. He has published widely at the interface between poverty policy and public health. His recent research concerns HIV and hepatitis prevention efforts for injection drug users, drug abuse and dependence among welfare recipients and pregnant women, infant mortality prevention, and child health. His research appears in such journals as Addiction, Journal of the American Medical Association, American Journal of Public Health, Health Services Research, Pediatrics, and Social Service Review.
Professor Pollack has been appointed to two committees of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine. He received his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University. He holds master's and doctorate degrees in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Before coming to SSA, Professor Pollack was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at Yale University and taught Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
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Publications
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My Fifteen Minutes of Fame (Clicking Off Amazon.com)
Jan 19, 2012
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Death of a Football Player
Jan 12, 2012
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Ron Paul's Other 1964 (Okay, 1965) Problem
Jan 6, 2012
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Big Bird and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
Dec 31, 2011
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Big Bird and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (A.K.A. the Public Television Option)
Dec 30, 2011
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PolicyCast: Harold Pollack Talks Health Policy for 2011
Dec 29, 2011
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Drug policy--Bloggingheads edition
Dec 23, 2011
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Drug policy--Bloggingheads edition
Dec 23, 2011
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Best and Worst Health Policy Stories of 2011
Dec 19, 2011
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Berwick comes out smoking, but why now?
Dec 10, 2011
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On Cyber Monday, Click Off Amazon.com
Nov 28, 2011
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Slamming Legal Academia
Nov 20, 2011
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A Foster Parent's Story
Nov 5, 2011
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Why we do social policy experiments—the impact of low-poverty neighborhoods on women’s health
Oct 29, 2011
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America's Health Policy Trap
Oct 26, 2011
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Sisyphus Gets to the Top
Oct 25, 2011
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National Health Service Corps: A Quiet Triumph of the Obama Stimulus Plan
Oct 14, 2011
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After the Obama Presidency Republicans Will Hold Adult Conversations
Oct 13, 2011
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There but for the Grace of God Goes Warren Buffett
Sep 30, 2011
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Hey Jaded Young Adults: Health Reform is Already Making a Difference
Sep 14, 2011
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Tough Times in the Second City
Sep 5, 2011
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A Speech for Our Hard Times
Aug 19, 2011
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Now This Is Interesting: (Some) Illinois Hospitals Losing Tax-exempt Status
Aug 17, 2011
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Rick Perry’s Book is Really Bad
Aug 16, 2011
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President Obama, Educate the Public on Fiscal Policy
Aug 1, 2011
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I'm Feeling Some Genuine Love for….Herbert Hoover?
Jul 27, 2011
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Is This It for the CLASS Act?
Jul 20, 2011
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Balancing Business, Humanity, and Restraint in Cancer Care
Jul 18, 2011
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Remember That Medical Access Audit Study That Imploded Last Week?
Jul 6, 2011
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My Question About That McKinsey Study: So What are Consultants Advising About Health Reform?
Jun 20, 2011
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Audit Study: Yes Medical Specialists Avoid Medicaid/CHIP-Insured Kids
Jun 16, 2011
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“Fright Doctors”– the Vaccine-Autism Controversy
Jun 15, 2011
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The Real Impact Of Cutting Medicaid -- Just When We Need It Most
May 6, 2011
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Our Flawed but Beneficial Medicaid Program
Apr 7, 2011
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Why are the Ryan Proposals So (Politically) Self-immolating?
Apr 7, 2011
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An infected toe, and a few comments on Representative Ryan's Medicaid cuts
Apr 5, 2011
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“Getting To Chicago’s Boys Before Gangs Do…”
Mar 22, 2011
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The 1970s were bad. So said James Tobin, anyway
Mar 17, 2011
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Drug testing welfare recipients: Another bad idea that keeps showing up
Feb 26, 2011
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Income Volatility and The Design of Insurance Exchanges
Feb 24, 2011
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A Hospital Stay
Feb 12, 2011
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More on “wheat, weed, and Obamacare”
Feb 5, 2011
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No, You Do Not Have the Right to Free Emergency Care
Jan 28, 2011
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The CBO Punching Bag
Jan 24, 2011




