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...

Jessica Himmelstein, MD, MPH

Dr. Himmelstein is the General Medicine and Primary Care Research Fellow at CHA and Harvard Medical School. Himmelstein's research interests include health disparities in immigrant and Latino populations, linguistic disparities in healthcare access and community based...

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 an Assistant Professor of Community Health at Tufts University. Dr. McGregor’s research focuses on health inequalities and the political determinants of health. She has done work on HIV/AIDS disparities, religion and public opinion, mental...

Samuel Dickman, MD

Samuel Dickman, M.D. is Medical Director for Primary Care at Planned Parenthood South Texas. Dr. Dickman is a health services researcher with specific interests in health disparities, reproductive health, substance use, and incarceration. His work has been published...

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