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.

Governance

Gun Violence in the United States

Jonathan Lowy, founder of Global Action on Gun Violence, discusses U.S. gun companies’ role in creating violence

Governance

Reducing Alcohol-Related Deaths in Lithuania

How the country is cutting down on deaths related to excess drinking

Governance

Alcohol: A Public Health Blind Spot

Richard Yoast on alcohol consumption and how philanthropies could help curb excess drinking   

Food

Alcohol in Excess

How the World Health Organization plans to curb excess drinking across countries

Urbanization

Road Safety in Lusaka

Mayor Chilando Chitangala on road safety, public health, and her political ambitions

Gender

Harlem to Harare

Dr. Mary Bassett on how her upbringing and decades in Africa influenced her thinking about health in the United States

Governance

Choosing to Make a Change

Dr. Helene Gayle on her trailblazing career and the questions she still ponders

Governance

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

Aging

Aging Gracefully in Taiwan

Mayor-physician Ko Wen-Je's quest to reshape Taipei for seniors

Environment

Rising from the Ashes

An interview with Phoenix, Arizona, Mayor Kate Gallego

Governance

Transforming Freetown After War

An interview with Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, mayor of Sierra Leone's capital city

Governance

Addressing Racial Inequity in the American Midwest

An interview with Columbus, Ohio, Mayor Andrew Ginther