Departmental Affiliations
Center & Institute Affiliations
Craig Pollack, MD, MHS, conducts research at the intersection of housing and health to inform policies that help individuals and families live in safe and affordable homes.
Contact Info
624 N. Broadway, Hampton House 333
Baltimore
Maryland
21205
US
Research Interests
housing and health; social determinants of health; cancer health services
Experiences & Accomplishments
Education
MSc
University of Pennsylvania
2008
MD
University of California, San Francisco
2004
MHS
University of California, Berkeley
2001
BA
Brown University
1997
Overview
Dr. Pollack is the Katey Ayers Endowed Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the School of Nursing. He is a practicing internal medicine physician whose research focuses on two main areas. The first investigates social determinants of health, with an emphasis on housing policies. In work funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the National Institutes of Health, he is examining the health effects of housing mobility programs that enable families to move from areas of concentrated poverty. Additional research investigates the impact of mixed-income communities, housing affordability, and place-based initiatives on health care use, spending, and outcomes. The second theme focuses on cancer prevention and control, including issues related to health disparities and the role of provider and patient social networks across the cancer continuum. The author of over 100 peer-reviewed articles, his work has appeared in leading journals. He received his medical degree and was an internal medicine residency at the University of California at San Francisco. He then received a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania where he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar.
Select Publications
Selected publications:
- Pollack CE, Blackford AL, Du S, Deluca S, Thornton RLJ, Herring B. Association of receipt of a housing voucher with subsequent hospital utilization and spending. JAMA. 2019;322(21):2115-2124. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.17432.
- Pollack CE, Du S, Blackford AL, Herring B. The Moving To Opportunity Experiment to Decrease Neighorhood Poverty Had Limited Effects on Emergency Department Utilization. Health Affairs. 2019;38(9):1442-1450. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2019.00452.
- Shi M, Baum A, Pollack CE. Perspectives on Integrating Health into the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit: A Qualitative Study. Health Affairs. 2020 Apr;39(4):622-630.