Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1998. He stepped down from the post in January, 2022, after being appointed by the Biden Administration to lead global health at USAID. Gawande is the author of four best-selling books: “Complications,” a finalist for the National Book Award; “Better”; “The Checklist Manifesto”; and “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.” He has won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing About Science, a MacArthur Fellowship, two National Magazine Awards, and AcademyHealth’s Impact Award for highest research impact on health care. He is a practicing endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. He is the founder and chair of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health-systems innovation, and of Lifebox, a nonprofit organization devoted to increasing surgical safety. He is also co-founder of CIC Health, which provides COVID-19 testing and vaccines across the U.S.
Costa Ricans Live Longer Than We Do. What’s the Secret?
We’ve starved our public-health sector. The Costa Rica model demonstrates what happens when you put it first.
Inside the Worst-Hit County in the Worst-Hit State in the Worst-Hit Country
When COVID-19 surged through a North Dakota community, a battle with the pandemic became a battle among its residents.
Controlling the Pandemic Is the First Step Toward Rescuing a Failed System
Joe Biden has committed to building an infrastructure that would support public health and equitable medical care—not only during this pandemic but during the next one.
We Can Solve the Coronavirus-Test Mess Now—If We Want To
The key to taming the pandemic will be both a new commitment to “assurance testing” and a new vision of what public health really means.
Amid the Coronavirus Crisis, a Regimen for Reëntry
A four-part strategy of hygiene, distancing, screening, and masks will not return us to normal life. But, when signs indicate that the virus is under control, it could get people out of their homes and moving again.
Keeping the Coronavirus from Infecting Health-Care Workers
What Singapore’s and Hong Kong’s success is teaching us about the pandemic.
Why Americans Are Dying from Despair
The unfairness of our economy, two economists argue, can be measured not only in dollars but in deaths.
Why Doctors Hate Their Computers
Digitization promises to make medical care easier and more efficient. But are screens coming between doctors and patients?
Is Health Care a Right?
It’s a question that divides Americans, including those from my home town. But it’s possible to find common ground.
Trumpcare vs. Obamacare
Americans don’t want to lose the benefits they have gained, and Republicans are hearing about it.
The Heroism of Incremental Care
We devote vast resources to intensive, one-off procedures, while starving the kind of steady, intimate care that often helps people more.
Trump and the Seventy-Per-Cent Solution
Eliminating Obamacare isn’t going to stop the unnerving rise in families’ health-care costs; it will worsen it.
Costa Ricans Live Longer Than We Do. What’s the Secret?
We’ve starved our public-health sector. The Costa Rica model demonstrates what happens when you put it first.
Inside the Worst-Hit County in the Worst-Hit State in the Worst-Hit Country
When COVID-19 surged through a North Dakota community, a battle with the pandemic became a battle among its residents.
Controlling the Pandemic Is the First Step Toward Rescuing a Failed System
Joe Biden has committed to building an infrastructure that would support public health and equitable medical care—not only during this pandemic but during the next one.
We Can Solve the Coronavirus-Test Mess Now—If We Want To
The key to taming the pandemic will be both a new commitment to “assurance testing” and a new vision of what public health really means.
Amid the Coronavirus Crisis, a Regimen for Reëntry
A four-part strategy of hygiene, distancing, screening, and masks will not return us to normal life. But, when signs indicate that the virus is under control, it could get people out of their homes and moving again.
Keeping the Coronavirus from Infecting Health-Care Workers
What Singapore’s and Hong Kong’s success is teaching us about the pandemic.
Why Americans Are Dying from Despair
The unfairness of our economy, two economists argue, can be measured not only in dollars but in deaths.
Why Doctors Hate Their Computers
Digitization promises to make medical care easier and more efficient. But are screens coming between doctors and patients?
Is Health Care a Right?
It’s a question that divides Americans, including those from my home town. But it’s possible to find common ground.
Trumpcare vs. Obamacare
Americans don’t want to lose the benefits they have gained, and Republicans are hearing about it.
The Heroism of Incremental Care
We devote vast resources to intensive, one-off procedures, while starving the kind of steady, intimate care that often helps people more.
Trump and the Seventy-Per-Cent Solution
Eliminating Obamacare isn’t going to stop the unnerving rise in families’ health-care costs; it will worsen it.