My PhilosophyThrough my personal and professional experiences, I have come to understand health as the interplay between biology, behavior, and social structures.
For this reason, I am pursuing both medicine and policy research. I want to meaningfully impact the lives of my patients, while designing policies that improve the socioeconomic conditions shaping their health. Mi filosofíaPor mis experiencias personales y profesionales, he entendido la salud como la interacción entre la biología, el comportamiento y las estructuras sociales.
Por eso, quiero ser médico y investigador de las políticas. Quiero impactar las vidas de mis pacientes mientras diseño las políticas que mejorarían las estructuras socioeconómicas que producen su salud. |
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Curriculum vitae
Selected Publications
“Does Health Vulnerability Predict Voting for Right-Wing Populist Parties in Europe?”
N.M. Kavanagh, A. Menon, J.E. Heinze
American Political Science Review (2021)
Why do voters in developed democracies support right-wing populist parties? This paper explores whether perceptions of health vulnerability, as measured by self-reported illness and disability, might drive voters to support these parties. Using data from over 20 countries in Europe over nearly two decades, we find that they do.
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“County-Level Socioeconomic and Political Predictors of Distancing for COVID-19”
N.M. Kavanagh, R.R. Goel, A.S. Venkataramani
American Journal of Preventive Medicine (2021)
How do socioeconomic and political structures shape how we engage in health behaviors? Using national cell phone data, this paper documents the pervasive structural barriers to distancing that many communities faced early in the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, communities of lower income and greater Republican orientation were consistently less likely to distance.
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