A5072811881- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Global Health Care Issues
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Healthcare Systems and Technology
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Disaster Response and Management
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Global Health and Surgery
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Biotechnology and Related Fields
- Genomics and Rare Diseases
City University of New York
2023-2025
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
2020-2024
Bellevue Hospital Center
2015-2024
City College of New York
2024
New York University
2014-2023
The Graduate Center, CUNY
2023
E Ink (South Korea)
2023
Creative Commons
2022-2023
CUNY School of Law
2022-2023
Hearing Health Foundation
2023
New York City Health + Hospitals is the largest safety-net health care delivery system in United States. Before coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, NYC served more than one million patients annually, including most vulnerable Yorkers, while billing fewer five hundred telehealth visits monthly. Once pandemic struck, we established a strategy to allow us continue serve our existing treating surge of new patients. Starting March 2020, were able transform using virtual platforms...
Background New York City (NYC) bore the greatest burden of COVID-19 in United States early pandemic. In this case series, we describe characteristics and outcomes racially ethnically diverse patients tested for hospitalized with City’s public hospital system. Methods We reviewed electronic health records all who received a SARS-CoV-2 test between March 5 April 9, 2020, follow up through 16, 2020. The primary were positive test, hospitalization, death. Demographics comorbidities also...
SummaryThe New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene determined that the spread misinformation about Covid-19 was having a harmful health impact, particularly on communities color with low vaccination rates. It established dedicated Misinformation Response Unit to monitor messages containing dangerous presented multiple media platforms, including social media, non-English international sites, proliferating in community forums. The collaborated more than 100 partners tailor...
Although preventive approaches to disease are intuitively appealing and frequently presented as a way reduce costs, analyses have suggested that they're generally no more cost-effective than therapeutic interventions. But some others?
Government austerity is likely to hit public health programs hard, as these compete for funds against the care delivery juggernaut. But such an approach seems hamper efforts improve population and reduce medical spending.
As part of health care reform efforts, scaling up the number community workers — lay members with focused training in U.S. workforce could improve outcomes, reduce costs, and create jobs.
Interview with Dr. Dhruv Khullar on uses of behavioral economics concepts in modifying physicians' behavior under value-based health care models. (09:26)Download Health organizations embracing new payment models may find that applying can boost the effect incentives. By creating more favorable decision-making environments, we take advantage cognitive biases to encourage high-value care.
Following the start of COVID-19 vaccination in New York City (NYC), cases have declined over 10-fold from outbreak peak January 2020, despite emergence highly transmissible variants. We evaluated impact NYC's campaign on saving lives as well averting hospitalizations and cases.We used an age-stratified agent-based model to include transmission dynamics Alpha, Gamma, Delta Iota variants identified NYC. The was calibrated fitted reported incidence NYC, accounting for relative transmissibility...
In November of 2021, multiple factors converged to create a window opportunity open overdose prevention centers (OPCs) at two existing syringe service programs (SSPs) in New York City (NYC). Political will exists NYC, particularly toward the end de Blasio administration's term, and NYC Health Department worked garner additional support from local state elected officials given dire need address crisis. This coincided with readiness on part one SSP providers, OnPoint operate OPC services....
Health systems around the United States are embracing new models of primary care using interprofessional team-based approaches in pursuit better patient outcomes, higher levels satisfaction among patients and providers, improved overall value. Less often discussed implications for health professions education, including education physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, other engaged care. Described here is interaction between transformation redesign at largest integrated...
Background New York City (NYC) has borne the greatest burden of COVID-19 in United States, but information about characteristics and outcomes racially/ethnically diverse individuals tested hospitalized for remains limited. In this case series, we describe patients with City's public hospital system. Methods We reviewed electronic health records all who received a SARS-CoV-2 test between March 5 April 9, 2020, follow up through 16, 2020. The primary were positive test, hospitalization, death....
Importance New York City, an early epicenter of the pandemic, invested heavily in its COVID-19 vaccination campaign to mitigate burden disease outbreaks. Understanding return on investment (ROI) this would provide insights into programs curb future Objective To estimate ROI City by estimating tangible direct and indirect costs from a societal perspective. Design, Setting, Participants This decision analytical model transmission was calibrated confirmed probable cases between December 14,...
Health care in the United States is among most technologically advanced world, but it largely failing to meet needs of nation. The US can claim international excellence important areas care, such as cancer treatment, and leads world biomedical innovation building a well-prepared dedicated clinical workforce. Affordable Care Act was major step forward expanding access health US. However, Americans are faced with staggering costs, inadequate pervasive inequities, lagging life expectancy...
This article centers around a proposal outlining how research universities could leverage their intellectual property to help close the access gap for health innovations in poor countries. A recent deal between Emory University, Gilead Sciences, and Royalty Pharma is used as an example illustrate 'equitable licensing' be put into practice.While crisis of medicines countries has multiple determinants, protection leading high prices well-established one critical element gap. Given current...
Genomic epidemiology is a field of research that seeks to improve the prevention and management common diseases through an understanding their molecular origins.It involves studying thousands individuals, often from different populations, with exacting techniques.The scale complexity such has required formation consortia.Members these consortia need agree on policies for managing shared resources handling genetic data.Here we consider data-sharing intellectual property international...
The authors describe the implications of Affordable Care Act for safety-net health systems and how hospital-based care are responding to reform.
Barriers to dissemination of life saving vaccines in low income countries can and should be overcome, argue Dave Chokshi Aaron Kesselheim
Altering physical and social environments can change behaviors to improve population health