This week on Under the Radar: Harvard professor Dr. Marcella Alsan is a physician-economist and a member of the 2021 MacArthur “Genius Fellows” — one of three who are local. We talk with Dr. Alsan for ...

Many white Americans have only recently realized what Dr. Marcella Alsan has studied for most of her career – that systemic racism in health care has fostered mistrust among Black and brown ...

In 2005, Marcella Alsan earned a master’s in public health from Harvard. Before heading back to school to earn her medical degree, she went Tijuana, Mexico, to tutor at an orphanage for a year.

Marcella Alsan always knew she wanted to be a doctor when she grew up. Being an economist at the same time was not part of the plan. But during medical school, Alsan worked at a public hospital in ...