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

Inside UN Relief Efforts in Gaza

A recently deployed relief worker on preserving humanitarian principles amid the Israel-Hamas firestorm

Aging

Best of 2023

Our favorite Think Global Health stories from 2023

Poverty

Navigating Health Disparities in Navajo Nation

Jennie Wei on challenges and lessons learned in addressing disparities and cultivating community resilience

Governance

Vaccine Confidence After COVID-19

An interview with Ali Mokdad on how the pandemic affected trust in vaccines

Governance

Inside the New Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy

An interview with Ambassador-at-Large John Nkengasong

Governance

How a Heavily Armed Country Cut Gun Suicide

Inside Israel’s suicide prevention programs

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

Food

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