Joseph Nwadiuko, MD, MPH, MSHP is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine. His focus involves global health, immigration, incarceration, and health systems. In particular his research involves the intersection between labor markets and health worker migration in low- and middle-income countries as well as health systems within immigration prisons and other carceral units in the United States.
He has been published in JAMA, JAMA Network Open, The Lancet, and Health Affairs. He has spoken at the State Department, USAID, the Department of Homeland Security, and has been a consultant for the World Bank. He has completed his BA at Amherst College, MD at the University of Pittsburgh, MPH and residency at Johns Hopkins and General Internal Medicine fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a PhD candidate in Health Policy and Management (Economics Cognate) at UCLA.
Areas of Expertise | Immigration, Global Health, Incarceration, Health Economics
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Selected Publications:
Nwadiuko J, Bustamante AV. Little To No Correlation Found Between Immigrant Entry And COVID-19 Infection Rates In The United States. Health Aff (Millwood). 2022;41(11):1635-1644. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01955
Nwadiuko J, Switzer GE, Stern J, Day C, Paina L. South African physician emigration and return migration, 1991-2017: a trend analysis. Health Policy Plan. 2021;36(5):630-638. doi:10.1093/heapol/czaa193
Nwadiuko J, German J, Chapla K, et al. Changes in Health Care Use Among Undocumented Patients, 2014-2018 [published correction appears in JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Mar 1;4(3):e217292. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.7292]. JAMA Netw Open. 2021;4(3):e210763. Published 2021 Mar 1. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.0763
Nwadiuko J, Varadaraj V, Ranjit A. International Medical Graduates-A Critical Component of the Global Health Workforce. JAMA. 2018;319(8):765-766. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.17961
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