Population Health
Boosting Health Through Economic Policy: Increasing Income and Wealth
A Conversation with Madeline Brown, MPA, Amy Beth Castro, PhD, William Elliott III, PhD, MSW, and Angela Rachidi, PhD, MPA, moderated by Atheendar Venkataramani, MD, PhD
Emerging research has provided new evidence about the potential for programs that improve income and wealth to improve health outcomes. Addressing the social determinants of health fundamentally requires improving economic well being. COVID-era payments, guaranteed income programs, baby bonds, and similar programs provide opportunities to learn more about the potential of economic interventions to improve population health. This panel of experts reviewed what we know about various economic interventions’ impacts on health and what policymakers who are interested in closing health disparities should be focused on in the years ahead.
Co-hosted with the Opportunity for Health Lab.
Speakers
Madeline Brown, MPAP
Senior Policy Advisor, Office of the Counselor for Racial Equity, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Amy Beth Castro, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania
William Elliott III, PhD, MSW
Professor of Social Work; Director, Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Social Science, University of Michigan
Angela Rachidi, PhD, MPA
Senior Fellow and Rowe Scholar, Poverty Studies, American Enterprise Institute
