In The News – Leah Zallman Center

ICH’s Sharon Touw participated in a Health Affairs briefing on immigrant health research and policy

News by Institute for Community Health | July 21, 2021

Sharon Touw, ICH Epidemiologist, participated in a Health’s Affair briefing on immigrant health in July, along with six other immigrant health researchers and experts. Sharon discussed ICH’s research on the impact of public charge rule changes on Medicaid and SNAP…

Yahoo Finance highlights ICH’s research on immigrant contributions to the health care system

News by Institute for Community Health | May 25, 2021

Yahoo Finance highlighted ICH’s recent research on immigrant contributions to the American health care system. This work was started by ICH’s late Director of Research Leah Zallman, who passed away in November 2019, and was completed by ICH Epidemiologists Lynsie…

Thanks-giving, Grief, and Community

Blog Post by Carolyn Fisher, PhD | November 24, 2020

This past weekend, I was part of a group reflecting on gratitude. I began this reflection unsure of whether I could muster anything beyond “I’m grateful that at least things aren’t worse.” After all, this month, which began at ICH…

In memoriam: Leah Zallman, MD, MPH

News by Institute for Community Health | November 9, 2020

It is with heavy hearts that we share the news that Leah Zallman passed away on November 5th from injuries sustained in an accident earlier last week. Leah was ICH’s Director of Research, a primary care physician at East Cambridge…

Reflections on National Immigrant’s Day

Blog Post by Leah Zallman | October 30, 2020

Earlier this week the US celebrated National Immigrant’s Day. The week before, I found myself referring to my sons using a term, “boychick” — and also found myself wondering where that term came from. It took me a few days…

Leah Zallman presents research on immigrant health and equity

News by Institute for Community Health | October 22, 2020

Leah Zallman, ICH Director of Research, recently gave two presentations on her immigrant health research. On October 15th, Leah presented findings of her research on contributions of Massachusetts immigrants to healthcare workforce, private insurance industry and Medicare to the MA…

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