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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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January 18, 2022

Do the Omicron Numbers Mean What We Think They Mean?

January 18, 2022

There’s an urban legend about a Texas man who takes a rifle to the side of his barn and sprays bullets across the wall, more or less at random. Then he finds the densest clusters of holes and paints a bull’s-eye around each one. Read the Full Article here.

The World We Want to Live in After COVID

January 12, 2022

January 12, 2022

In 1909, the French ethnographer Arnold van Gennep published a [...]

How to Think About the Risks of Omicron

January 6, 2022

January 6, 2022

For much of the past year, Americans have guided their behavior [...]

What Has Omicron Changed?

December 15, 2021

December 15, 2021

The covid-19 pandemic, like every pandemic before it, is a story [...]

The Uncertainties of the Omicron Variant

December 1, 2021

December 1, 2021

The first case of the new coronavirus variant, Omicron, also [...]

How Will the COVID Pills Change the Pandemic?

November 30, 2021

November 30, 2021

In March, 2020, researchers at Emory University published a paper [...]

The Complex Business of Vaccine Mandates

October 15, 2021

October 15, 2021

At the start of the American Revolution, ninety per cent of the [...]

RT @BrianLehrer: On today's show: - NYC's new City Council Speaker, @NYCSpeakerAdams - @SteveLohr on AI displacing workers - @DhruvKhulla…12 hours ago

RT @apoorva_nyc: BREAKING: New CDC data suggest unvaccinated people 50+ are about 45x more likely to end up in the hospital than those who…1 day ago

"Anything is possible right now, and that is as much cause for hope as it is for grave concern"—@jelani9 https://t.co/sgitspSg3t5 days ago

RT @Atul_Gawande: Yesterday, in Kigali, #COVAX delivered its BILLIONTH #COVID19 vaccine dose. A staggering milestone in the largest vacci…5 days ago

My latest @NewYorker on how to think through the Omicron numbers—and the questions that await us on the other side of this surge: What level of disease are we willing to accept? What is the purpose of further restrictions? What do we owe one another? https://t.co/Kwr7U8QN595 days ago

RT @maggieNYT: Medicine is supposed to be blind to who it’s treating, only that it treats the sick.1 week ago

RT @NYCHealthCommr: New: Preliminary findings related to the severity and impact of the surge of #COVID19 cases associated with the introdu…1 week ago

RT @AnnFamMed: 1/ Research from @HNeprash @kritiprasad_ @DhruvKhullar looked at the organizational culture of institutions where patients h…1 week ago

RT @michaelluo: .@DhruvKhullar makes the point: "In an era of social-media virality, cable-news punditry, and political celebrity, we, too,…1 week ago

RT @JMichaelMcW: Thanks Lara! (& more here: https://t.co/iY9l6oDPJj) @GoiteinLara's program is great example of a management approach to b…2 weeks ago