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...

Emily Lupez, MD, MPH

Emily Lupez, MD, MPH, is a General Medicine and Primary Care Research Fellow at CHA and Harvard Medical School. Her research interests include health inequities in vulnerable populations, social determinants of health, and access to care. She is originally from...

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...

Liz Schrier

Liz Schrier is a medical student at University of California, San Francisco. Her research interests include medical debt, healthcare privatization, and health worker unionization. Prior to medical school, she worked as a Research Assistant at Dana-Farber Cancer...

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

Chris Cai is medical intern at Brigham and Women’s Hospital In July 2021. His work on Medicare for All financing has been published in PLoS Medicine, featured on ABC news and shared by members of Congress. During medical school, he interned with U.S. Representative...

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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