Jason Lakin is a Research Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health.  His research focuses on health system reform.  He received his Ph.D. from the Government Department at Harvard University, where he was a fellow in the Program on Inequality and Social Policy, in May 2008.  His dissertation is entitled "The Possibilities and Limitations of Insurgent Technocratic Reform: Mexico's Popular Health Insurance Program, 2001-2006."  The dissertation analyzes the politics surrounding the creation of Mexico's Seguro Popular, a health reform targeted at uninsured Mexicans.  It goes on to assess the implementation of the program in Guerrero, Oaxaca and Chiapas, and to compare the politics of the program to that of previous social policy reforms in Mexico.

Jason is also co-author of The Democratic Century (University of Oklahoma Press 2004), with Marty Lipset.  He spent several months with the World Bank in New Delhi in 2007, assessing the political economy of policy reform in Uttar Pradesh.  Prior to graduate school, he was a researcher at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington, DC.  

Jason currently blogs for the Harvard International Review, and is working on a book about contemporary Mexican politics and society.