Ted Alcorn
Ted Alcorn is a journalist and educator with expertise in gun violence prevention policies and programs. He contributes reporting to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other national publications, and is a lecturer at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Previously he was the founding research director of Everytown For Gun Safety, and he served as a policy analyst in the Office of the Mayor of New York City. He earned graduate degrees as a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and their School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and lived in Beijing, China as a Henry Luce scholar.
Gun Violence in the United States
Jonathan Lowy, founder of Global Action on Gun Violence, discusses U.S. gun companies’ role in creating violence
Reducing Alcohol-Related Deaths in Lithuania
How the country is cutting down on deaths related to excess drinking
Alcohol: A Public Health Blind Spot
Richard Yoast on alcohol consumption and how philanthropies could help curb excess drinking
Alcohol in Excess
How the World Health Organization plans to curb excess drinking across countries
Road Safety in Lusaka
Mayor Chilando Chitangala on road safety, public health, and her political ambitions
Harlem to Harare
Dr. Mary Bassett on how her upbringing and decades in Africa influenced her thinking about health in the United States
Choosing to Make a Change
Dr. Helene Gayle on her trailblazing career and the questions she still ponders
In Brazil, a City Councilor from Belo Horizonte Has Big Plans
Gabriel Azevedo quotes de Tocqueville, owns a jazz bar, and rides a bike—he's the modern leader his hometown needs
Transforming Freetown After War
An interview with Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, mayor of Sierra Leone's capital city
Addressing Racial Inequity in the American Midwest
An interview with Columbus, Ohio, Mayor Andrew Ginther