Mustafa Hussein

He is also a faculty affiliate with the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research (CIDR) and the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Hussein's training spanned health economics, public policy analysis, econometrics and statistics, social epidemiology, and urban health. Hussein's research employs advanced quantitative methods to study the policy and institutional drivers of health inequalities in the healthcare system and labor markets as well as the contextual and psychosocial mechanisms that link public policy and institutions to health. This work seeks to advance our understanding of the fundamental ways in which these drivers determine the social distribution of health and to identify targets for intervention. Recent projects have focused on: 1) urban labor reforms and the growing diffusion of algorithmic management and artificial intelligence in the gig economy and their effects on health and wellbeing among low-wage workers; 2) modeling of economic risk due to medical out-of-pocket spending, its poverty consequences, and its response to insurance reforms; and 3) the contributions of psychosocial stress to the high chronic disease burden among low-income, racialized minority, and immigrant populations. Hussein's research has been supported by the American Heart Association, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the US National Institutes of Health. He regularly mentors master's and PhD students and teaches graduate-level courses on health economics, comparative healthcare systems, and applied econometric and demographic methods.