Harris School of Public Policy

Prof. Kate Baicker of Harris Public Policy

Coronavirus Shows Why We Need To Rethink Health Care, with Katherine Baicker (Ep. 43)

Leading UChicago health economist explains why our public health infrastructure wasn’t ready for coronavirus, and what we need to change for the next pandemic.

A temperature check at a road block in Lakka, Sierra Leone.

What the Ebola outbreak could teach us about how to contain coronavirus

Map showing lights across Europe

During coronavirus, plunging power demand could signal economic woes

Toy figurines and coins, a wage gap symbol

Study: College major choices can predict gender wage gaps

Poet Nikki Giovanni with a child following the 2020 George E. Kent Lecture

For Nikki Giovanni, finding purpose means ‘you cannot let the world change you’

View of Chicago neighborhood

A closer look at how neighborhoods shape public health

Politics Podcast

New podcast explores pressing policy issues through data and research—not punditry

Three people stand at the newly unveiled Doomsday Clock

Doomsday Clock closer than ever before to apocalypse

James Robinson

Why Some Nations Prosper and Others Fail, with James Robinson (Ep. 37)

A leading University of Chicago scholar explains why some nations fall into poverty while others succeed.

Speaking in business context

How your speech could impact your salary