Lab Members

Danny McCormick, MD, MPH

Dr. McCormick is a primary care physician and is the Director of the CHJL. He is also Co-Director of the Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy at the Cambridge Health Alliance. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and...

David Bor, MD

Dr. Bor is a specialist in infectious diseases, Chief of Medicine, emeritus, and current Chief Academic Officer at Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) and the Charles S. Davidson Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Since joining CHA in 1981, he has made...

Adam Gaffney, MD, MPH

Adam Gaffney, MD MPH is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a pulmonary and critical care physician at the Cambridge Health Alliance. Dr. Gaffney’s research focuses on healthcare access and equity, with an emphasis on barriers faced by...

Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH

Dr. Woolhandler splits her time between Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School and New York City, where she serves as a Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York at Hunter College. She has authored more than 150 peer reviewed articles...

Dhara Patel, DO

Dhara Patel is a General Internal Medicine fellow at Cambridge Health Alliance. Her research interests include climate change-related health outcomes. She completed her Internal Medicine residency at Penn State Health, where she served as chief resident and worked as...

Liz Schrier, MD

Liz Schrier is an internal medicine resident at University of California, San Francisco. Her research interests include healthcare financialization and health workforce unionization. She previously worked at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Partners in Health, and Erie...

David Himmelstein, MD

Dr. Himmelstein splits his time between Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School (where he serves as a Lecturer in Medicine) and New York City, where he serves as a Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York at Hunter College. His more than...

Chris Cai, MD

Christopher Cai, MD is a General Internal Medicine fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital and PORTAL. His research interests are in health care financing and payment reform. He previously worked as a policy fellow in the US House of Representatives. He completed his...

Alecia McGregor, PhD

Alecia McGregor, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Politics, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. McGregor’s research focuses on health inequalities and the political determinants of health. She has...

Samuel Dickman, MD

Samuel Dickman, MD, is a health services researcher and the Medical Director at Planned Parenthood of Montana. His research focuses on health disparities, reproductive health, substance use, and incarceration. Dr. Dickman received an MD from Harvard Medical School and...

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