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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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The Beginning of the End of the American Pandemic

The story of the American pandemic has unfolded in three chapters. The first began last January, when the coronavirus emerged and the world was plunged into uncertainty about how covid-19 could be treated, how the virus spread, and when it might be defeated. The second started on the morning of November 9, 2020, when Pfizer-BioNTech […]

India’s Crisis Marks a New Phase in the Pandemic

Since just before the new year, Ramanan Laxminarayan, an [...]

Inside India’s COVID-19 Surge

Rajat Arora, an interventional cardiologist, is the managing [...]

A Doctor’s Dark Year

Brittany Bankhead-Kendall arrived in Boston in July of 2019. Tall [...]

What Will It Take to Pandemic-Proof America?

On September 29, 1982, a twelve-year-old girl named Mary [...]

What the Coronavirus Variants Mean for the End of the Pandemic

Last March, during the first wave of the pandemic, Adriana Heguy [...]

Why Are So Many Health-Care Workers Resisting the COVID Vaccine?

February 2, 2021

February 2, 2021

Tiffany Chance has worked as a certified nursing assistant since [...]

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RT @NewYorker: Janet Malcolm, who began writing for The New Yorker in 1963, when the magazine published her poem “Thoughts on Living in a S…4 days ago

RT @MartinLandray: RECOVERY Result: Monoclonal antibody combination reduces deaths for hospitalised patients with COVID-19 who haven't pro…5 days ago

RT @rkwadhera: New study out in @CircAHA. Cardiovascular deaths ⬆️ during the pandemic. But were some groups more affected than others? We…6 days ago

Incisive, moving piece on the FDA's recent decision from the always great @specterm: "Millions of Americans rely on the agency to sift through data and present scientifically valid results. It is there to protect us, not to tell us what we want to hear." https://t.co/JUREa8A5M16 days ago

Excited to join @RichardBaron17 @ABIMFoundation for this conversation on all things COVID, vaccines, and trust in health care! Register below! https://t.co/mCFDUVbOQn6 days ago

RT @NewYorker: “Reopening a country after a pandemic isn’t like flipping a giant switch,” @DhruvKhullar writes. “It’s more like lighting a…6 days ago

RT @MSNBC: Virtually all hospitalized Covid-19 patients have one thing in common: They're unvaccinated. https://t.co/TqsQNBvRe07 days ago

RT @Atul_Gawande: GREAT NEWS: Novavax Vaccine has exceptional results in a US/Mexico trial for age 18+. - 93% effectiveness against Varia…1 week ago

RT @MWFriedberg: Nice overview of natural experiments https://t.co/r7BCAjQGYw by @DhruvKhullar @AnupamBJena …paired with tour de force on…1 week ago