Dr. Jena is an economist, physician, and professor at Harvard.
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Anupam B. Jena
Physician-Economist, Host, 'Freakonomics, M.D.' Podcast, Ruth L. Newhouse Associate Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
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Dr. Jena is an economist, physician, and professor at Harvard. As one of a small group of physician-economists in the world, and one of the most creative and prolific social scientists in medicine, Dr. Jena is uniquely positioned to explore where the worlds of medicine and economics collide, based on his experiences as a practicing physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and his unique training as an economist.
His creative use of natural experiments – chance occurrences that we are exposed to, but often unaware of, in our lives – help us understand how health care works, the subject of his 2020 TEDMED talk. He is the host of the popular Freakonomics, M.D. podcast, where he tackles questions at the intersection of medicine and economics, including questions from his own research on why mortality rates rise in cities on the days that they host large marathons, why cardiac patients do better when cardiologists are out of town at national cardiology conferences, and why kids with summer birthdays are more likely to be diagnosed with A.D.H.D.
Dr. Jena’s work is frequently featured in the media, including The New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal.
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An Evening With Anupam B. Jena
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The profound difference between seeing and looking
Dr. Anupam B. Jena discusses cancer spending around the world
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