MARCELLA M. ALSAN
Stanford Medical School
Center for Health Policy/PCOR
117 Encina Commons, Room 186
Voice: 650.721.1352
Fax: 650.723.1919
Email: malsan@stanford.edu
Academic Positions
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford Medical School 2013
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 2012-2013
Research Interests
Development Economics, Infectious Disease
Education
2012
2005
2005
1999
PhD Economics
MD Medicine, Magna Cum Laude
MPH International Health
BA Cognitive Neuroscience, Magna Cum Laude
Training
2013
2011
2010
2007
2005
Subspecialty in Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital
Board Certified in Infectious Diseases
Board Certified in Internal Medicine
Hiatt Residency, Global Health and Internal Medicine, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Internship, Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard University
Loyola University
Harvard School of Public Health
Harvard College
Honors and Affiliations
2014
Population Association of America, Member
2014
Infectious Disease Society of America, Member
2013
Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
2012
MIT-Harvard Prize Fellowship Semi-Finalist
2012
Post-Doctoral Fellowship Health and Aging NBER
2005
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
2005
Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Honor Society
2005
Geoffrey Gunnar Memorial Scholarship (for academic excellence and service)
2005
Faculty Award for Excellence in the Clinical Sciences
2003
Albert Schweitzer Fellowship
1999
Departmental Prize for Outstanding Thesis Research
1999
Certificate in Mind, Brian and Behavior
Publications
Alsan, Marcella, David E. Bloom and David Canning, ‘The effect of population health on foreign direct
investment among low- and middle-income countries’, World Development, 2006, Vol. 34(4), pp 613630.
Alsan, Marcella and Michael Klompas. ‘Acinetobacter Baumannii: An Emerging Pathogen,’ Journal of
Clinical Outcomes Management, 2010, Vol.17 (8), pp 363-369.
Alsan, Marcella and Harrison W. Lin, ‘Tularemia presenting as a cervical abscess,’ Otolaryngology and
Head and Neck Surgery, 2010, Vol. 143, pp 311-312.
Alsan, Marcella, Sarah Hammond, Nicolas Issa, Lindsey Baden and Dan Milner, ‘Candidiasis presenting
as lymphadenitis in the immunocompromised host,’ Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma & Leukemia. 2011.
Vol. 11 (4), pp 375-377.
Alsan, Marcella, Michael Westerhouse, Michael Herce, and Paul Farmer, ‘Poverty, Global Health and
Infectious Disease: Lessons from Haiti and Rwanda,’ Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 2011.
Vol. 25 (3), pp 611-22.
Alsan, Marcella and David Cutler, ‘Girls’ Education and HIV Risk: Evidence from Uganda,’ Journal of
Health Economics, 2013. Vol. 23, pp 863-872
Alsan Marcella, ‘The Effect of the TseTse Fly on African Development’ accepted American Economic
Review
Working Papers
Alsan, Marcella. ‘The Direct and Indirect Effects of Mass Vaccination: Evidence from Turkey’
Alsan, Marcella, Beshears, John, Armstrong, Wendy, Madrian, Brigitte, del Rio, Carlos, Laibson, David and
Marconi, Vincent. ‘A Pilot Evaluation of a Commitment Contract to Improve HIV Medication Adherence
and Persistence’
Alsan, Marcella and Goldin, Claudia. ‘Watersheds in Infant Mortality: Massachusetts 1880 to 1915’
Alsan, Marcella, Shoemaker, Lena, Nagamani Kammili et al., ‘Out-of-pocket medical payments and
antimicrobial resistance in low- and middle-income countries’
Presentations
2012 – 2013: Re-Mapping Africa: From Humanities to Health, Harvard GIS Conference (3/2012)
Massachusetts General Hospital Infectious Diseases Division Seminar (5/2012)
NBER Development of American Economy—Poster Presentation (7/2012)
EconCon 2012 (8/2012), Harvard-MIT Development Seminar (9/2012)
Harvard History Seminar (9/2012), Stanford PCOR (10/2012), MIT History of Poverty
Conference (11/2012) , NEUDC (11/2012), Boston-Working Group on African Political
Economy (B-WGAPE), MIT (11/2012), Georgetown (11/2012), Boston University
(12/2012), UCLA-Anderson (01/2013), Dartmouth (01/2013), Ohio State (01/2013), Santa
Clara (01/2013), Emory (01/2013), London School of Economics (01/2013), Stanford
History Seminar (10/2013)
2014 – 2015: AEA (1/2014), All India Institute of Medical Sciences (3/2014), Gandhi Medical College
and Hospital (3/2014), International Center on Diarrheal Diseases, Bangladesh (3/2014),
PCOR RIP (4/2014), Stanford Junior Faculty Economics (5/2014), NBER Summer
Conference (7/2014), Stanford Evolutionary Demography Meeting (11/2014) Notre Dame
(11/2014), UCLA (12/2014) Namur, Paris School of Economics and Toulouse School of
Economics, (3/2015)
Funding
2010-2011
2011-2012
2012-2013
NIH T-32 Clinical AIDS Research
NIH T-32 Neglected Tropical Diseases
NIA T-32 Health and Aging
Teaching
Fall 2014:
Economics of Global Health and Infectious Disease, Stanford
Professional Service
Referee for Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Development
Economics, World Development, Globalization and Health, Health Policy and Planning, PLOS One,
American Journal of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Journal of Economic History