Season 1, Episode 2: Designing Research Questions That Involve Real World Experiments with Dr. Bapu Jena
Welcome to Episode 2 of Season 1 of the Emerging Scholar Podcast!
On this episode, we are honoured to host Dr. Bapu Jena, a clinician, economist, author, podcast host and professor at Harvard Medical School, where he holds the Joseph P. Newhouse Professorship in Health Care Policy. Dr. Jena is also the creator and host of the popular podcast Freakonomics, MD, and the author of Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Shape How Doctors Impact Patients and Shape Our Health.
Dr. Jena joins us to share his expertise in crafting innovative research questions that leverage natural experiments and real-world data to answer clinically relevant causal questions. Drawing from his groundbreaking work, he reveals how these approaches can uncover meaningful insights within administrative datasets and beyond.
Whether you’re a researcher, clinician, or curious mind, this episode offers a masterclass in designing impactful studies and thinking outside the box. We hope you enjoy this fascinating conversation with Dr. Bapu Jena as much as we did!
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Dr. Anupam B. Jena
Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD, is the Joseph P. Newhouse Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and a physician in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. As an economist and physician, Dr. Jena’s research involves several areas of health economics and policy including the use of natural experiments in health care, the economics of physician behavior and the physician workforce, medical malpractice, the economics of health care productivity, and the economics of medical innovation. Dr. Jena graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his MD and PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago and completed his residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is the host of the Freakonomics, MD podcast, which explores the “hidden side of health care.”