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Professor Danielle Allen, PhD '01, looks back to ancient days in Athens and Rome, especially to Aristotle, to consider democracy and its corruptions—in oligarchy and other ways.

Veronica Peterson, PhD ’25, explores how 19th-century Chinese immigrants used home cooking to preserve culture, foster care, and resist exclusion.

An AI co-worker absorbs processes, protocols and data from the repeated actions of the team, and presents insights and solutions much faster than its human counterparts, writes Rohan Murty, PhD '11, the founder of Workfabric AI / Soroco writes.

The evolution toward concierge care and other free-market models has pros and cons for doctors and patients alike, highlighting an urgency to strengthen traditional forms of primary care, according to Harvard Medical School researcher Zirui Song, PhD '12.
 

Sophisticated new emotional wellness apps powered by AI are growing in popularity. But according to a new study co-authored by Julian D Freitas, PhD '21, these apps pose their own mental health risks by enabling users to form concerning emotional dependency on AI chatbots.

New study co-authored by PhD student Anna Shchetinina finds that the integration of legal services into health care settings to help patients address social determinants of health can lead to improvements in physical health, cognitive development, mental health, and health care use among children.