Harold Pollack is an American professor

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 at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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 who has been appointed to two Institute of Medicine

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 committees. His research has focused on public health

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 and health policy. At the University of Chicago, he has chaired the Center for Health Administration Studies. A special correspondent for the New Republic during 2009 and 2010, he writes frequently about public policy for a variety of national publications.

Pollack went to Princeton University

Princeton University

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 for his undergraduate education. He received his masters and doctoral degrees in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. After attending Harvard, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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 fellow at Yale University

Yale University

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 before teaching at the University of Michigan School of Public Health

University of Michigan School of Public Health

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and then the University of Chicago.