Jacob Wallace

Jacob Wallace is an Associate Professor of Public Health at Yale University’s School of Public Health. His research focuses on health policy in the United States, including how managed care tools shape healthcare utilization and outcomes for vulnerable populations, the limitations of risk adjustment and the importance of randomization, and how public insurance programs shape health disparities.

Jacob also serves as a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and co-founded Young Invincibles, a nonprofit organization dedicated to lifting the voices of young adults in the political process. Prior to joining Yale, Jacob was a data analyst and product manager at Nuna Health and a policy analyst at the New York State Department of Health. He is the recipient of the Willard G. Manning Award for the Best Research in Health Econometrics and the Outstanding Statistical Application Award from the American Statistical Association.

Jacob holds a PhD in health policy and economics from Harvard University.