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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.

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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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What the Coronavirus Variants Mean for the End of the Pandemic

On September 29, 1982, a twelve-year-old girl named Mary Kellerman woke up with a cold. Her parents gave her some extra-strength Tylenol and, within a few hours, she had died. That same day, in a town near the family’s Chicago suburb, a twenty-seven-year-old postal worker named Adam Janus felt ill; he, too, took Tylenol and […]

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RT @amitabhchandra2: "Imagine if AstraZeneca and Merck were the only ones who had taken up the vaccine challenge...We’d be screwed.” @Dhru…12 hours ago
RT @NewYorker: “From the midst of the next pandemic, we’ll almost certainly look back on the Biden Presidency as a time when we either seiz…1 day ago
Thanks for helping me think through this @NAChristakis! Always learn so much from you and your work. https://t.co/uFXDr9mcja2 days ago
When the next pandemic strikes, we’ll almost certainly look back on this moment as a time when we either seized or squandered the chance to prepare for the inevitable. My latest @NewYorker on what we can to do make America more pandemic-resistant. https://t.co/daHmCAgG5S2 days ago
RT @NewYorker: Future pandemics are basically unavoidable, @DhruvKhullar writes. As the end of the coronavirus pandemic approaches, the que…2 days ago
RT @jameshamblin: Pausing vaccination to look into a possible one in a million side effect may scare people. It could just as easily be see…3 days ago
Enjoyed chatting with @ShiraOvide @nytimes about Microsoft's acquisition of Nuance — and how AI-based voice transcription technologies will and won't change health care. https://t.co/meq3gN4n7y3 days ago
NEW @JournalGIM: What do physician practices think of Medicare's Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)? We interviewed practices across the country to find out. 6 major themes emerged: https://t.co/CoopK0bl2O1 week ago
RT @ashishkjha: People ask whether vaccinations can really blunt the variants May I present data from Israel? About 55% of the population…2 weeks ago
RT @rkwadhera: Policymakers have increased their focus on improving health equity. But are federal pay-4-performance (P4P) programs helping…3 weeks ago