Recent Academic News
July 26, 2021: CHA research, pubished in the journal Health Equity, found wide variation in gains in health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act for Black, Hispanic and low-income Americans. While the best performing states were able to reduce rates of uninsurance among Black, Hispanic and low-income adults by approximately 60%, the worst performing states reduced uninsurance by less than 10%, a six-fold difference.
July 6, 2021: CHA research, published in the journal Health Affairs, shows that Spanish-speakers receive about one third less care than other Americans, and key language-based gaps have widened over the past two decades.
June 2, 2021: CHA Family Medicine faculty publish a timely article on providing group based opioid treatment (t-GBOT) using telehealth during the pandemic.
May 25, 2021: Chairman and Chief of Psychiatry, Phillip Wang, MD, DrPH, named Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Mar. 11, 2021: CHA Surgeon Dr. Arundhati Ghosh receives A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award from Harvard Medical School.
Mar. 1, 2021: Dr. Caitlin D'Agata named Director of the Tufts Family Medicine Residency Program
Feb. 2, 2021: CHA faculty have multiple articles in the journal Academic Psychiatry in a special issue on diversity, equity, and inclusion.