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- **I**nterview with [**Fast Company**](https://www.fastcompany.com/91125138/using-ai-for-public-impact-insights-from-dr-soroush-saghafian) on Using AI for Public Impact: Insights from Dr. Soroush Saghafian   
    [**Five takeaways from an AI pioneer about its potential impact in healthcare**](https://www.fastcompany.com/91125138/using-ai-for-public-impact-insights-from-dr-soroush-saghafian)
- HARVARD CRIMSON interview with Soroush Saghafian, ***Harvard Medical School Licenses Consumer Health Content to Microsoft for AI Use in New Deal**:* [*https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/20/hms-microsoft-license/*](https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/20/hms-microsoft-license/)
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- Large Grant: [**Harvard Kennedy School Public Impact Analytics Science Lab Receives $3 Million From DOD \[Harvard Crimson\]**](https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/9/12/hks-ai-melanoma-grant/)

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- Interview: The Promise and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

 

 





 

 

 



 

 

 

- Interview with[ **PolicyCast** ](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policycast/data-analysis-and-intelligent-policy-design-not-good-intentions-will)on the role of data analysis and intelligent policy design in healthcare:

 

 



  

 



 

 

 

- [**TV interview** ](https://www.wjcl.com/article/ask-asa-dark-side-of-chatgpt/43486641)on societal implications of ChatGPT and other Large Language Models:

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- [**TV interview**](https://www.wfmj.com/clip/15484548/local-impact-of-steward-health-closures) on the impact of hospital closures:

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- Interview with [**Harvard Gazette**](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/04/mortality-rates-between-black-white-americans-narrow-except-in-case-of-infants/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020250402%20(1)&spMailingID=35882126&spUserID=MTA2ODUwNzE5MzgxS0&spJobID=2883049927&spReportId=Mjg4MzA0OTkyNwS2) on the 70-year study of mortality gaps between Black and white Americans:

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- Soroush Saghafian interview with **NPR/WBUR** on the 70-year study of mortality gaps: **S**[**oroush Saghafian.mp3** \[](https://scholar.harvard.edu/sites/scholar.harvard.edu/files/saghafian/files/soroush_saghafian_study_spot.mp3)**NPR/WBUR\]**
- Interview with the [**Korean Newspaper, Chosun Ilbo**](https://www.chosun.com/economy/weeklybiz/2025/05/01/VS3NVY6VOFEQFFO56CXDUHYV5Q/)**:** Medical disparities by region and income can be reduced through AI

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- Soroush Saghafian on the Impact of Hospital Closures: [**Hospital Closures Mean More Than Just the Loss of Access to Medical Care**](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/health/hospital-closures-mean-more-just-loss-access-medical-care)
- Soroush Saghafian's work on health disparities: [**Black Americans twice as likely to die during childhood as whites \[U.S. News\]**](https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2025-03-26/black-americans-twice-as-likely-to-die-during-childhood-as-whites)
- Soroush Saghafian's work on vertical integration in medicine: [**Study Finds Vertical Integration in Medicine is Leading to Higher Costs and Worse Health Outcomes**](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/health/study-finds-vertical-integration-medicine-leading-higher)
- Soroush Saghafian's work: [**Vertical Integration is Hurting Healthcare**](https://chds.hsph.harvard.edu/vertical-integration-is-hurting-healthcare/)
- Soroush Saghafian's work on health disparities: [**More Black babies are dying than white infants. Scientists are blaming healthcare inequality \[The Independent\]**](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/infant-mortality-race-statistics-healthcare-b2726124.html)
- Soroush Saghafian's work on health disparities: [**Black Americans twice as likely to die during childhood as whites, research reveals \[Medical Press\]**](https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03-black-americans-die-childhood-whites.html)
- Soroush Saghafian's work on health disparities: [**More babies are being admitted to NICUs in Indiana: CDC data brief \[NPR Indianapolis\]**](https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/more-babies-are-being-admitted-to-nicus-in-the-midwest-according-to-cdc-data-brief)
- Soroush Saghafian's work: [**Can AI be a Better Doctor?**](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/science-technology-data/experts-discuss-how-harness-ai#soroush)
- Soroush Saghafian's work: [**Transforming FDA Clearance: How AI and Human Insight Can Improve Medical Device Safety \[Devdiscourse.com\]**](https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/health/3021077-transforming-fda-clearance-how-ai-and-human-insight-can-improve-medical-device-safety)
- Soroush Saghafian's work: [**From Centaurs to Cyborgs: Our Evolving Relationship with Generative AI**](https://edrm.net/2024/04/from-centaurs-to-cyborgs-our-evolving-relationship-with-generative-ai/)
- Soroush Saghafian's work: [**The Next Frontier of Education: From Ivy Halls to Algorithmic Futures \[Education.com\]**](https://education.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/higher-education/the-next-frontier-of-education-from-ivy-halls-to-algorithmic-futures/116389052)
- Soroush Saghafian: [**Making AI Impactful in Healthcare and Public Policy**](https://chds.hsph.harvard.edu/soroush-saghafian-making-ai-impactful-in-healthcare-and-public-policy/)
- Soroush Saghafian: [**A Human-Algorithm Approach to Approving Medical Devices Could Slash the Recall Rate and Save Billions**](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/health/human-algorithm-approach-approving-medical-devices-could)
- Soroush Saghafian's work: [**Fitbit Data Accurately Predicts Bipolar Disorder Mood Swings**](https://newatlas.com/mental-health/fitbit-machine-learning-bipolar-mood-episodes/)
- Soroush Saghafian's work: [**Should Race be Used in Determining Risk for Disease? Yes. And No**](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/health/should-race-be-used-determining-risk-disease-yes-and-no)
- Soroush Saghafian's work: [**Hospitals Swallowing Independent Practices Found to Lead to Higher Costs, Worse Patient Health Outcomes \[Medical Xpress\]**](https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-08-hospitals-swallowing-independent-higher-worse.html)
- Soroush Saghafian's work on hospital closures: [**Decades after Historic Black Hospital Closes, Former Nurses Fight to Keep the Memory Alive \[PBS NewsHour\]**](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/decades-after-historic-black-hospital-closes-former-nurses-fight-to-keep-the-memory-alive)
- Soroush Saghafian's work on hospital closures: [**Atlanta’s Health Care System Is Strained by Major Hospital’s Closing, Doctors and Patients Say \[NBC News\]**](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hospitals-strained-atlanta-medical-center-closing-doctors-rcna137451)
- Soroush Saghafian's work on hospital closures: [**Patients and staff criticize state’s plan to close beloved children’s hospital in Canton \[Boston Globe\]**](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/17/metro/pappas-pediatric-hospital-children-massachusetts-disability/)
- Soroush Saghafian's work on hospital closures: [**How Five Doctors Recovered After Hospital Closures \[Medscape\]**](https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/996055)
- [**Saghafian’s PIAS-Lab Receives DOD Award**](https://chds.hsph.harvard.edu/saghafians-pias-lab-receives-dod-award/)
- Soroush Saghafian's work on hospital closures: [**How Do Hospital Closures Impact Patient Care?**](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/health/how-do-hospital-closures-united-states-impact-patient-care?utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_source=hkstwitter)
- Soroush Saghafian's work on hospital closures: [**After a Year, Questions Remain on Atlanta Medical Center’s Closure \[The Atlanta Journal Consitution\]**](https://www.ajc.com/news/health-news/after-a-year-questions-remain-on-atlanta-medical-centers-closure/XIHRFL256RFPXCT3ZZAVEUTRFU/)
- Interview with Euronews: [**AI May Help to Predict How Patients Respond to Antidepressant Treatment \[Euronews\]**](https://www.euronews.com/health/2024/02/12/ai-may-help-to-predict-how-patients-respond-to-antidepressant-treatment)
- Soroush Saghafian's work: [**Integration among Healthcare Providers Is Not All it's Cracked Up To Be**](https://www.dotmed.com/news/story/61175) **\[DOTmed\]**
- Q&A with Soroush Saghafian: [**Big Data and Machine Learning can Usher in a New Era of Policymaking**](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/science-technology-data/big-data-and-machine-learning-can-usher-new)
- Interview with GrowthPolicy: [**Soroush Saghafian on Public Impact through Intelligent Policy Design**](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/programs/growthpolicy/soroush-saghafian-public-impact-through-intelligent-policy)
- Soroush Saghafian's [**Interview with INFORMS**](https://www.informs.org/Publications/OR-MS-Tomorrow/Interview-with-Prof.-Soroush-Saghafian)**:** the role of OR/MS and Machine Learning in Healthcare Analytics and Policy Planning, and their Impact on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
- Soroush Saghafian on [**ChatGPT, Cheating, and the Future of Education \[Harvard Crimson Magazine\]**](https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/2/23/chatgpt-scrut/)
- Soroush Saghafian on [**Optimizing Mobile Health (mHealth) Interventions in the National Academy of Medicine**](https://chds.hsph.harvard.edu/optimizing-mobile-health-mhealth-interventions/)
- Soroush Saghafian [**Awarded INFORMS Young Scholar prize** ](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/announcements/soroush-saghafian-awarded-informs-young-scholar-prize)
- Soroush Sahgfain [**Awarded INFORMS Prize**](https://chds.hsph.harvard.edu/soroush-saghafian-awarded-informs-prize/)
- Soroush Saghafian's work on COVID-19 policies: [**Soroush Saghafian Provides the Quantitative Data and Analytic Model to Help States Weigh the Health Gains and Economic Burdens of Intervention Policies**](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/health/measuring-health-economic-trade-offs)
- Soroush Saghafian's work on COVID-19 policies: [**Soroush Saghafian Analyzes Coronavirus Policy Options for the Government of Bahrain**](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/health/qa-what-covid-19-policies-should-governments-impose-comparing)
- Soroush Saghafian's work on [**How the Public Sector and Civil Society Can Respond to the Coronavirus Pandemic**](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/health/how-public-sector-and-civil-society-can-respond-coronavirus#soroushsaghafian)
- Soroush Saghafian's Op-Ed: [**Why Health Care Transparency is Complicated and How It Can be Fixed \[The Hill\]**](https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/483638-why-health-care-transparency-is-complicated-and-how-it-can-be)
- Soroush Sahgfain [**Lunches the Public Impact Analytics Science Lab (PIAS-Lab)**](https://chds.hsph.harvard.edu/saghafian-launches-pias-lab/)



 

- Soroush Saghafian's work: [**Cutting ER Lines via Tele-Triage**](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/health/cutting-lines-hospital-emergency-rooms)
- Soroush Saghafian's work: [**Improving Quality Transparency in Healthcare \[National Academy of Medicine**](https://nam.edu/the-role-of-quality-transparency-in-health-care-challenges-and-potential-solutions/)**\]**
- Soroush Saghafian's work:[ **Increasing Transparency in the Healthcare System May Not Be Always Better \[www.news-medical.net\]**](https://www.news-medical.net/news/20191211/Increasing-transparency-in-the-healthcare-system-may-not-be-always-better.aspx)
- Soroush Saghafian's work: [**Increasing Transparency in the Healthcare Sector: More Might Not Be Bette \[INFORMS\]**](https://www.informs.org/About-INFORMS/News-Room/Press-Releases/Increasing-Transparency-in-the-Healthcare-Sector-More-Might-Not-Be-Better)
- Soroush Saghafian's work: [**New Research Explores on Increasing Transparency in the Healthcare Sector \[Industry Global News 24\]**](https://www.industryglobalnews24.com/new-research-explores-on-increasing-transparency-in-the-health-care-sector)
- Soroush Saghafian's work: [**Increasing Transparency in the Healthcare Sector: More Might Not Be Bette \[Global Health News Wire\]**](https://globalhealthnewswire.com/2019/12/12/increasing-transparency-in-the-healthcare-sector-more-might-not-be-better/)
- Soroush Saghafian's work: [**Increasing Transparency in the Healthcare Sector: More Might Not Be Bette \[EurekAlert; American Association for the Advancement of Science\]**](https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/ifor-iti121119.php)
- Soroush Saghafian's work: [**Increasing Transparency in the Healthcare Sector: More Might Not Be Bette \[Managed Healthcare Executives\]**](https://www.managedhealthcareexecutive.com/news/transparency-healthcare-sector-more-might-not-be-better)
- Soroush Saghafian's research paper received the [**POMS (Production and Operations Management Society) 2019 College of Healthcare Best Paper Award** (first place)](https://chds.hsph.harvard.edu/chds-affiliate-student-honored-with-publication-award/)
- Soroush Saghafian has been awarded by the **National Science Foundation (NSF)** to study new data-driven ways of medication management [(Award Abstract)](http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1562645)
- Soroush Saghafian's [research paper](/publications/can-public-reporting-cure-healthcare-role-quality-transparency-improving) received the [**INFORMS Public Sector Best Paper Award**](https://www.informs.org/Recognizing-Excellence/Award-Recipients/Soroush-Saghafian) (second place)
- Soroush Saghafian's [research paper](/publications/complexity-augmented-triage-tool-improving-patient-safety-and-operational) received the [I**NFORMS MSOM (Manufacturing & Service Operations Management) Journal 2016 Best Paper Award**](https://www.informs.org/Recognizing-Excellence/Award-Recipients/Soroush-Saghafian) (awarded to one paper among all published in the prior three years)
- Soroush Saghafian's [research paper](/publications/complexity-augmented-triage-tool-improving-patient-safety-and-operational) received the [**INFORMS MSOM Society 2016 Best Paper Award of Service Special Interest Group (SIG)**](https://www.informs.org/Recognizing-Excellence/Award-Recipients/Soroush-Saghafian)



 

- Soroush Saghafian's [**Interview with INFORMS on Healthcare Transparency**](https://pubsonline.informs.org/do/10.1287/orms.2020.01.11p/full/)