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Harold Pollack – Fellow

Harold Pollack
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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.

 
Blog of the Century Posts by Harold Pollack
An Idea So Stupid Even the Congress (Probably) Won’t Pass It
May 1, 2013
It’s Not a 401(k) World—At Least It Doesn’t Have To Be
May 1, 2013
Margaret Thatcher: Right on HIV AIDS
April 9, 2013
Misleading Trends with Benefits
March 28, 2013
The Best and Worst News in Health Policy: 2012
January 4, 2013
The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansion
December 4, 2012
One Homeless Young Mother and Her Toddler
September 27, 2012
House Committee Bans Critical Thinking Skills in Health Policy
July 19, 2012
 
Items Featuring Harold Pollack
Kludgeocracy—Yeah It’s a Problem, but Policy Complexity Is Also a Fact of Life
December 14, 2012
The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid Expansion
December 4, 2012
 
By Harold Pollack
‘I can’t chew, you know, because the teeth are very weak’
May 8, 2013
Want to curb Chicago gun violence? Get behind background checks
May 6, 2013
How to make drug courts work
April 29, 2013
Want to fight terrorism? Learn first aid.
April 18, 2013
The Dog Bone Economy
April 15, 2013
Reality-Based Mental Health Reform
March 4, 2013
TCF fellow Harold Pollack in The Washington Monthly: A New Kind of Arms Race with the NRA
January 15, 2013
Quantum Mechanics and the Fiscal Cliff
January 1, 2013
 

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