Op-Eds, Policy Briefs, and Other Writing

“Promoting Rigorous, Actionable Research in Maternal and Newborn Health in the United States” (with Cordelia Kwon and Margaret McConnell), J-PAL North America Blog, October 21, 2022. Link.

“Paid Family Leave in Massachusetts: A Step in the Right Direction, but Inequities Remain (with Huma Farid, Lucy Chie, Tajh Ferguson, Elysia Larson, Rose Molina), Medium. July 28, 2021. Link.

“How to Make Sure People Still Get Tested, Even As The Risk of COVID-19 Falls” (with Joseph Allen), Washington Post, March 16, 2021. Link.

“Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Availability After Childbirth During the COVID-19 Pandemic” (with Maria Steenland and Rose Molina), Health Affairs Blog, November 30, 2020. Link.

“Listen to the Science and Reopen Schools” (with Benjamin Sommers, Joseph Allen and Sarah Bleich), Boston Globe, 20 July 2020. Link

“We Bailed out Banks and Car Companies. Why Can’t we Invest Enough to Make our Schools Safe?” (with Margaret Kruk) WBUR Cognoscenti, 29 July 2020. Link.

“U.S. Schooling During COVID Doesn’t Deserve a Passing Grade. Here’s the Way Forward.” (with Joseph Allen, Sara Bleich and Benjamin Sommers) Washington Post, 14 October 2020. Link.

“Why Partisan Politics Keeps 14 Million Hungry Children from Getting the Food They Need.” (with Sara Bleich, Benjamin Sommers and Joseph Allen) USA Today, 28 October 2020. Link.

“Promoting the Competition: A randomized trial of cash incentives for postnatal care referrals by traditional birth attendants” (with Adanna Chukwuma, Chinyere Mbachu, Margaret McConnell and Thomas Bossert) BMC Series Blog, 20 May 2019. Link.

“The Role of Drug Packaging in Malaria Medication Adherence in Uganda” (with Indrani Saran) VoxDev, January 4, 2019. Link.

“A Balancing Act: Subsidizing Drugs and Diagnostics for Malaria”(with Pascaline Dupas and Simone Schaner), JPAL Policy Briefcase, January 2012. Link.

“Rationally and Effectively Combating Malaria Through Diagnostics”, Brookings Institution Up Front Blog, April 2010, Link.