Health
J-PAL’s Health sector focuses on identifying policies and programs effective at improving the reach, quality, and take-up of health services and products.
In addition to supporting policymakers in applying evidence from randomized evaluations to their work, sector chairs and staff write policy insights that synthesize general lessons emerging from the research, condense results from evaluations in policy publications and evaluation summaries, and fund new research through the Urban Services Initiative, US Health Care Delivery Initiative, and Cash Transfers for Child Health Initiative. See all evaluations in the Health sector.
Evaluation
The Impact of Training Informal Healthcare Providers in India
Informal healthcare workers with little to no training provide more than 70 percent of all primary care in rural India. In this study, researchers evaluated the impact of a nine-month training...
News
Strategies to Combat the Opioid Epidemic: What We Know and Where to Go from Here
As part of an engagement with the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, J-PAL North America created a policy brief summarizing the evidence for select interventions to treat opioid use...
Evaluation
An Entrepreneurial Model of Community Health Delivery in Uganda
In Uganda, an incentivized community health promoter program increased health care access, knowledge, and health-promoting behaviors among households, leading to a 27 percent reduction in child...
affiliate
Rebecca Dizon-Ross
Rebecca Dizon-Ross is an Associate Professor of Economics and Charles E. Merrill Faculty Scholar at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She is a development economist with an interest...
