Health/Healthcare

Part III of Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman’s three-part series on the U.S. healthcare system, originally posted in his Substack newsletter, considers the U.S. healthcare system from an international perspective and concludes by looking at the future. What kind of system is workable in the U.S.? How has the political economy of U.S. healthcare reform changed? And what is a possible path forward?

Part II of Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman’s three-part series on the U.S. healthcare system, originally posted in his Substack newsletter, discusses U.S. health care on the eve of the second Trump administration, 80 years of U.S. health politics, the Obamacare story, and the new assault on healthcare.

Part I of Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman’s three-part series on the U.S. healthcare system, originally posted in his Substack newsletter, discusses why markets can’t be trusted to deliver healthcare, routes to universal healthcare, and what works.

When Junior Scholar Bobbie Justin came to the Graduate Center, she already had more than a decade of experience working directly with patients as a medical social worker. She entered the Ph.D. program in Social Welfare determined to focus her research on improving care for older adults with disabilities.

Stone Center Junior Scholar and Ph.D. candidate Shou-Ming Chang, who worked as a legislative assistant in the parliament of Taiwan before coming to the Graduate Center, discusses his research, his interests in methods of measuring inequality, and what he learned from his government role.

Marai Hayes, one of the Stone Center's new postdoctoral scholars, discusses her research projects, how she became interested in the connections between health and inequality, and the likely impacts of recent health policy changes at the federal level.

Y. Berman and T. Hovland. Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality Working Paper Series. no. 105. 2025.

Meredith Slopen, a Stone Center postdoctoral scholar, discusses her project on how older workers benefit from paid family leave and paid sick leave policies, for which she recently received a fellowship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Retirement and Disability Research Center and the Institute for Research on Poverty.

M. Slopen. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 100. 2025.

Nancy Krieger, in this presentation for the Stone Center’s Inequality by the Numbers 2023 virtual workshop, provides an in-depth review of her lifelong research on public health disparities across geographical areas and their historical origins in racial structures such as Jim Crow, and her ongoing development of area-based social and health metrics in the pandemic age.