Julia Raifman
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Julia R. Raifman, ScD, SM

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Health Law, Policy & Management - Boston University School of Public Health

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Biography

Julia Raifman, ScD, SM conducts research on how health and social polices shape population health and health disparities. She leads the COVID-19 U.S. State Policy Database (statepolicies.com), a publicly available database facilitating rapid response research on policies to prevent COVID-19 and reduce economic hardship during the pandemic. Her research on unemployment insurance and food insufficiency helped inform continued unemployment insurance expansion in the American Rescue Plan Act. She is a collaborator on a study indicating that lifting state eviction freezes was associated with increased COVID-19 cases and deaths, a finding that helped uphold a federal eviction moratorium until the fall of 2021. She also conducted research on the expanded Child Tax Credit, paid sick leave, LGBT rights, and firearm policies. She has communicated about policy evidence and health inequities in the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Public Radio, Axios, BBC news, The Guardian, and other publications.

Dr. Raifman led the Health Inequities Strategic Research Area at the Boston University School of Public Health and the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Committee in the Health Law, Policy, & Management Department. She is committed to supporting structural changes to improve diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in academia.

Prior to joining Boston University, Dr. Raifman received her doctoral degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins.

Education

  • Harvard School of Public Health, ScD Field of Study: Global Health and Populations
  • Harvard School of Public Health, ScD Field of Study: Global Health and Populations
  • Harvard School of Public Health, MSc Field of Study: Global Health and Populations/Economics
  • Tufts University, BA Field of Study: Biopsychology

Websites

Classes Taught

  • SPHPH843

Publications

  • Published on 5/28/2024

    Goutos D, Cesare N, Vu C, Lim K, Green T, Rodriguez K, Raifman J. Race and Ethnicity of Reproductive-Age Females Affected by US State Abortion Bans. JAMA. 2024 May 28; 331(20):1765-1767. PMID: 38691367.

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  • Published on 5/1/2024

    Beccia AL, Zubizarreta D, Austin SB, Raifman JR, Chavarro JE, Charlton BM. Trajectories of Mental Distress Among US Women by Sexual Orientation and Racialized Group During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Am J Public Health. 2024 May; 114(5):511-522. PMID: 38598758.

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  • Published on 2/23/2024

    Bayly H, Stoddard M, Van Egeren D, Murray EJ, Raifman J, Chakravarty A, White LF. Looking under the lamp-post: quantifying the performance of contact tracing in the United States during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. BMC Public Health. 2024 Feb 23; 24(1):595. PMID: 38395830.

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  • Published on 1/31/2024

    McCann NC, Dean LT, Bovell-Ammon A, Ettinger de Cuba S, Green T, Shafer PR, Raifman J. Association between Child Tax Credit advance payments and food insufficiency in households experiencing economic shocks. Health Aff Sch. 2024 Feb; 2(2):qxae011. PMID: 38756550.

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  • Published on 11/1/2023

    Raifman J, Cheng DM, Skinner A, Hatzenbuehler ML, Mayer KH, Stein MD. State same-sex marriage policies and pre-exposure prophylaxis implementation among men who have sex with men in the United States. J Int AIDS Soc. 2023 Nov; 26(11):e26180. PMID: 37997001.

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  • Published on 9/14/2023

    Shafer PR, Lim K, Goutos D, Huberfeld N, Benitez JA, Hsu KS, Raifman JR. Making pandemic era Medicaid continuous coverage automatic in future crises. Health Serv Res. 2023 Dec; 58(6):1157-1160. PMID: 37706551.

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  • Published on 8/18/2023

    Patel TA, Jain B, Raifman J. Revamping Public Health Systems: Lessons Learned From the Tripledemic. Am J Prev Med. 2024 Jan; 66(1):185-188. PMID: 37598983.

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  • Published on 7/21/2023

    Dawit R, Predmore Z, Raifman J, Chan PA, Skinner A, Napoleon S, Zanowick-Marr A, Le Brazidec D, Almonte A, Dean LT. Identifying HIV PrEP Attributes to Increase PrEP Use Among Different Groups of Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Latent Class Analysis of a Discrete Choice Experiment. AIDS Behav. 2024 Jan; 28(1):125-134. PMID: 37474623.

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  • Published on 7/10/2023

    Ettinger de Cuba S, Miller DP, Raifman J, Cutts DB, Bovell-Ammon A, Frank DA, Jones DK. Reduced health care utilization among young children of immigrants after Donald Trump's election and proposed public charge rule. Health Aff Sch. 2023 Aug; 1(2):qxad023. PMID: 38756243.

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  • Published on 6/6/2023

    Bayly H, Stoddard M, Egeren DV, Murray EJ, Raifman J, Chakravarty A, White LF. Looking under the lamp-post: quantifying the performance of contact tracing in the United States during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Res Sq. 2023 Jun 06. PMID: 37333276.

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