Hi, I'm Austin Tucker.

I'm a health economist and PhD candidate at Harvard studying how healthcare labor markets work — and what happens to patients when they don't. My dissertation asks who takes care of us when the caregiving workforce is squeezed: by school closures, by immigration policy, by the daily realities of understaffed delivery wards.

Before that, I spent years measuring the costs, cost-effectiveness, and delivery of TB and HIV care in sub-Saharan Africa — work published in NEJM, PLOS Medicine, BMJ Global Health, Value in Health, JIAS, IJTLD, Implementation Science, and others.