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Dhruv Khullar

Dhruv Khullar, M.D., M.P.P. is a physician and assistant professor of health policy and economics at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is also a contributor at The New Yorker, where he writes about medicine, health care, and politics. He currently serves as Director of Policy Dissemination at the Physicians Foundation Center for Physician Practice and Leadership, and was recently a Senior Research Fellow at NYC Health + Hospitals.

About ///

Dhruv Khullar, M.D., M.P.P. is a physician and assistant professor of health policy and economics at Weill Cornell Medical College.

He is also a contributor at The New Yorker, where he writes about medicine, health care, and politics. He currently serves as Director of Policy Dissemination at the Physicians Foundation Center for Physician Practice and Leadership, and was recently a Senior Research Fellow at NYC Health + Hospitals. His research focuses on value-based care, health disparities, and medical innovation, and has been published in JAMA and The New England Journal of Medicine.

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Living Through India’s Next-Level Heat Wave

The Bhalswa landfill, on the outskirts of Delhi, is an apocalyptic place. A gray mountain of dense, decaying trash rises seventeen stories, stretching over some fifty acres. Broken glass and plastic containers stand in for grass and stones, and plastic bags dangle from spindly trees that grow in the filth. Read the Full Article here.

What’s at Stake in the Fight Against Monkeypox

On May 12th, Nesli Basgoz, an infectious-disease doctor at [...]

We Have to Get Out of This Phase”: Ashish Jha on the Future of the Pandemic

During the first year of the covid-19 pandemic, the public-health [...]

Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Ever End?

Twenty-seven months into the covid-19 pandemic, our defenses [...]

Faith, Science, and Francis Collins

On June 26, 2000, the physician Francis Collins, then the [...]

How COVID Exploded in Hong Kong

At the beginning of 2022, Hong Kong stood out as a pandemic [...]

Are We About to Cure Sickle-Cell Disease?

In September, 1904, a twenty-year-old Grenadian man named Walter [...]

.@larry_levitt: plan is less sweeping than originally envisioned, but the fact that it passed "despite the opposition of the drug industry...makes it, in a sense, even more of a statement about what’s politically possible in reforming the health system." https://t.co/bALvCdHsAp13 hours ago

RT @rkwadhera: 1 in 4 Americans can't afford their prescription medications The Senate just passed a *historic* bill that will tackle this…1 week ago

RT @NewYorker: We can hope to defeat monkeypox even with an imperfect response, @DhruvKhullar writes. “But doing so will still require a le…1 week ago

RT @JAMAHealthForum: This cross-sectional study found few hospitals demonstrated high performance across all 3 value-based programs (HVBP,…2 weeks ago

RT @KentonJJohnston: I am proud to play wingman on this important new study in @Health_Affairs led by Yanlei Ma & Hefei Wen with @Jwharam.…2 weeks ago

“If signed into law, the bill…could enable the country to cut its net greenhouse gas emissions by roughly 40 percent below 2005 levels by the end of this decade.” https://t.co/HGBEoAN8XO2 weeks ago

RT @NewYorker: .@DhruvKhullar joins David Remnick on #NewYorkerRadio to discuss the escalating climate crisis in New Delhi, where the heat…2 weeks ago

Nice @NEJM perspective from @ChristineSinsky & Jeffrey Panzer on "solution shop" vs "production line" work in health care—and why a frameshift is needed promote both physician and patient wellbeing. https://t.co/XpUSDC2s2o2 weeks ago

RT @ScottGottliebMD: My New York Times essay: “Focus CDC on its core mission of outbreak response. And imbue it with a national security mi…2 weeks ago

RT @chrislhayes: This is almost too much to process, but very important to do so https://t.co/5XFrVwmsTR2 weeks ago