Research Seminar with Craig Pollack, MD, MHS
Brick by Brick: Building Health Through Housing Policy
Open to Penn Affiliates
The United States is in the midst of a housing crisis: over 70% of extremely low income renters spend more than half of their income on rent and 7.6 million Americans receive eviction notices each year. This talk describes the health consequences of this crisis and discusses the impact of strategies designed to ameliorate it including (1) federal housing assistance programs, (2) emergency rental assistance, and (3) housing mobility policies designed to help low income families move to better resourced neighborhoods. The studies shed light on the ways that housing policies can be leveraged to support health across the life course, helping address inequities for a range of health conditions.
Co-hosted with the Division of General Internal Medicine.
Please note: Registration for this event is required. In-person attendance is strongly encouraged, although virtual access will be provided for all registrants.
Speaker
Craig Pollack, MD, MHS
Katey Ayers Endowed Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing; Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Craig Pollack, MD, MHS is the Katey Ayers Endowed Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is a practicing primary care internal medicine physician whose research focuses on social determinants of health, with an emphasis on housing policies. In work funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Pollack is examining the health effects of housing mobility programs that enable families to move from areas of concentrated poverty. Additional research investigates the impact of housing affordability and place-based initiatives on health care use, spending, and outcomes. In other work, Dr. Pollack also performs cancer health services research, investigating issues related to health disparities and the role of provider and patient social networks across the cancer continuum. He received his medical degree and was an internal medicine resident at the University of California at San Francisco. He then received a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania where he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar.