The latest edition of Cornell's Health Policy Insight Panel asked leading scholars about proposed Marketplace policies Majorities agreed: 1. Converting ePTCs to HSA contributions would, on balance, worsen affordability (70%) 2. Requiring small premiums would cause avoidable coverage loss (75%)
Excited to share that I'll be in conversation with former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy @newyorker.com Festival on October 25! We'll be talking community and connection, A.I. and social media, political polarization and public health, and much more... Tickets at the link below!
Event Details - The New Yorker Festival
festival.newyorker.com
Recently, Dhruv Khullar travelled to Harvard to witness a face-off between a new A.I. model named CaBot and an expert diagnostician. Both correctly solved a patient's case. What does this mean for the future of medicine?
If A.I. Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For?
Large language models are transforming medicine—but the technology comes with side effects.
newyorker.com
loved this conversation between Joshua Rothman and @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social on how A.I. might change the medical profession: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
“With the federal government in retreat, vaccine wars have shifted to the states.” @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social writes about how states are abiding by, enforcing, or fighting against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,’s vaccine-policy rollbacks.
A New Era of Vaccine Federalism
As confidence in the C.D.C. wanes, states are asserting more control over their vaccine policies, creating a fragmented public-health system.
newyorker.com
A.I. is different from virtually every other diagnostic technology: its results change depending on what you ask of it. But, perhaps, “the capriciousness of A.I. could also be turned into an asset,” Dhruv Khullar writes. nyer.cm/uVKDtkj
How good is A.I. at making medical diagnoses? Good enough to help—and to hurt. For @newyorker.com, I spent months talking to patients, doctors, and researchers about how we can make the most of a powerful new technology and how we can minimize the side effects.
If A.I. Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For?
Large language models are transforming medicine—but the technology comes with side effects.
newyorker.com
In this week's @newyorker.com, I write about what it's like to live with progeria—a disease that causes rapid, brutal aging—and the patients, advocates, and scientists who have brought us to the brink of a cure. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How an Ultra-Rare Disease Accelerates Aging
Teen-agers with progeria have effectively aged eight or nine decades. A cure could help change millions of lives—and shed light on why we grow old.
newyorker.com
Can A.I. find new uses for old drugs? Some scientists think that many lifesaving treatments are hiding in plain sight—if only we knew where to look. My new piece in @newyorker.com
Can A.I. Find Cures for Untreatable Diseases—Using Drugs We Already Have?
For many medical conditions, lifesaving treatments may be hiding in plain sight.
newyorker.com
"At a time when the country faces no shortage of health threats, the value of evidence and expertise is itself under attack. The anti-establishment has become the establishment, and its decisions will affect us all." — @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
How to Think About COVID-19 Vaccines in the Era of R.F.K., Jr.
The coronavirus may no longer be a leading danger to our health. That doesn’t mean it can’t hurt us, or that we don’t need to protect ourselves.
newyorker.com
In a new paper, we find that the percentage of Americans who believe the government should pay for health care has increased over time, with notable increases among younger adults, people with lower incomes, Independents, and Republicans:
Public Views of Health Care Coverage, Spending, and Leadership in the United States - Journal of General Internal Medicine
Journal of General Internal Medicine -
link.springer.com
I had a chance to sit down with the legendary Marion Nestle for this interview in @newyorker.com Radio Hour. We covered the history of nutrition, recent research on ultra-processed foods, and policy levers that could help bring about a healthier America.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and the Confounding Politics of Junk Food. Plus, Kelefa Sanneh on the Long Influence of Kraftwerk
Podcast Episode · The New Yorker Radio Hour · 05/02/2025 · 32m
podcasts.apple.com
In this week's @newyorker.com, I revisit "The Case of Anna H.," by Oliver Sacks. Sacks has come to feel like the practitioner of a lost art distinct from modern medicine. But he understood that the particularity of a case—its texture, its humanity, its narrative—could illuminate how the mind works
Dhruv Khullar on Oliver Sacks’s “The Case of Anna H.”
Wonder and observation propelled not only Sacks’s writing but also his doctoring. He wanted to chronicle even when he couldn’t cure.
newyorker.com
How many NIH supported "life-changing" studies have been or will be terminated? This one on the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study, by @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
A Life-Changing Scientific Study Ended by the Trump Administration
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., declared chronic diseases an “existential threat.” Then his agency terminated one of the world’s longest-running diabetes trials.
newyorker.com
📌 CHPC faculty, Drs. Amy Bond, Dhruv Khullar, Will Schpero, Yasin Civelek and colleagues explore what constitutes the modal primary care practice for Medicare beneficiaries in their paper out now in JAMA Health Forum @wschpero.bsky.social @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social @yasincivelek.bsky.social
Changes in Primary Care Practice Setting and Practice Type for Medicare Beneficiaries
This cross-sectional study examined changes in practice setting and practice type in 2012 vs 2022 among patients with traditional Medicare coverage.
jamanetwork.com
What constitutes the modal primary care practice? In service of ongoing work characterizing the outpatient delivery system, we tried to figure it out. New paper now at JAMA Health Forum, with @ambond.bsky.social and @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social et al. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Changes in Primary Care Practice Setting and Practice Type for Medicare Beneficiaries
This cross-sectional study examined changes in practice setting and practice type in 2012 vs 2022 among patients with traditional Medicare coverage.
jamanetwork.com
A thrill to join Don Berwick and Kedar Mate for this episode of Turn on the Lights! We discussed recent HHS cuts, corporatized medicine, ultra-processed food, the future of health care, and more...
Keeping Patients over Profits with Dhruv Khullar
Podcast Episode · Turn on the Lights Podcast · 04/25/2025 · 42m
podcasts.apple.com
I joined @cnn.com to discuss the worsening measles outbreak in Texas and elsewhere. Every death is a tragedy—and a preventable tragedy.
CNN This Morning
Powered by SnapStream Cloud Sharing
video.snapstream.net
Our Cornell Health Policy Center @chpc-cornell.bsky.social has an all-star leadership team: @wschpero.bsky.social, @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social, @ambond.bsky.social Jeff Niederdeppe, Maria Fitzpatrick, Sean Nicholson, Emily Workman, Kayla Tormohlen
In a new @jama.com Viewpoint, we examine two under-appreciated elements of enrollment in the Medicare Advantage program: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Steering, Switching, and the Medicare Advantage “Trap”
This Viewpoint discusses the differences between Medicare Advantage (MA) and traditional Medicare and the trade-offs between service and convenience that beneficiaries make when selecting MA; highligh...
jamanetwork.com
Enjoyed joining @amanpourcopbs.bsky.social for this wide-ranging conversation on ultra-processed foods, chronic disease, and the steps we can take toward healthier diets:
Is Your Diet Making You Sick? The Hidden Impact of Ultra-Processed Foods | Amanpour and Company
YouTube video by Amanpour and Company
youtube.com
In @newyorker.com's 100-Year Anniversary Issue, I write about what space travel does to the human body—and the scientists trying to figure out how to keep people safe on a roundtrip journey to Mars...
Can the Human Body Endure a Voyage to Mars?
In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep space will make us sick.
newyorker.com
"Calorie density, probably the feature of food that had the biggest impact on our ancestors’ survival, now seemed to be among the most responsible for making us overeat." Fascinating piece by @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Why Is the American Diet So Deadly?
A scientist tried to discredit the theory that ultra-processed foods are killing us. Instead, he overturned his own understanding of obesity.
newyorker.com
In this week's @newyorker.com, I write about a paradigm shift in nutrition science. What, exactly, are ultra-processed foods—and what, exactly, are they doing to our bodies?
Why Is the American Diet So Deadly?
A scientist tried to discredit the theory that ultra-processed foods are killing us. Instead, he overturned his own understanding of obesity.
newyorker.com
New in Annals of Internal Medicine, @dannagal.bsky.social and I discuss 3 fundamental needs that underlie people's beliefs — comprehension, control, community — and offer suggestions for how clinicians and health systems can guide patients toward evidence-based practices.
Misinformation, Identity, and the Basis of Belief | Annals of Internal Medicine
acpjournals.org
The skinny on ultra-processed foods www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... @newyorker.com by @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social
Why Is the American Diet So Deadly?
A scientist tried to discredit the theory that ultra-processed foods are killing us. Instead, he overturned his own understanding of obesity.
newyorker.com
I had a chance to join CBS News and Major Garrett to discuss my recent @newyorker.com piece on the consequences of money in medicine. Is U.S. health care entering a "gilded age"?
Is U.S. health care in a "gilded age"?
A New Yorker article argues that we are in "the gilded age of medicine." So what does that mean for U.S. health care? Dr. Dhruv Khullar, associate professor of health and economics at Weill Cornell Me...
cbsnews.com
My new piece @newyorker.com on the Gilded Age of Medicine, in which patients are often treated less as humans in need of care than consumers who generate profit.
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 2y ago2024 was arguably the year that the dangers of corporate medicine finally became undeniable and inescapable. @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social writes about the cost of viewing patients as consumers who generate profit.