Eric Zhou

Assistant Professor @IcahnMountSinai. Alum from @NYUWagner & @HarrisPolicy. Health Economics & Policy. Mongolian Chinese, Bayannur born & raised.

[Claude @claudeai]

Claude Fable 5 has been out for a couple of days. Some projects people have already built with it:

[Eric Zhou @Geng_zhou]

One of the better maps we created using an AI powered embedding framework. https://t.co/E4L2gGRSAb

[Google for Health @GoogleForHealth]

Google’s Population Dynamics Foundations embeddings dataset is helping bring more geographic precision to public health. See how @HarvardMed, @MountSinai & @BostonChildrens researchers used PD-Foundations for ZIP code–level vaccination coverage estimates: https://t.co/BtBZOmktJz

[Google for Health @GoogleForHealth]

Google’s Population Dynamics Foundations embeddings dataset is helping bring more geographic precision to public health. See how @HarvardMed, @MountSinai & @BostonChildrens researchers used PD-Foundations for ZIP code–level vaccination coverage estimates: https://t.co/BtBZOmktJz

[Greg Folkers 🇺🇦☮️🇺🇸 @greg_folkers]

The Atlantic: The Only Thing That Will Turn Measles Back / A rebound in vaccination—which may depend on government support

by Katherine J. Wu @TheAtlantic #measles

https://t.co/irgqfjKSk9 gift link

[Google Research @GoogleResearch]

Measles outbreaks are on the rise, but gaps in data can make it difficult for public health workers to reach vulnerable populations.

To help stop further spread of the disease, researchers at Harvard, Mount Sinai and @BostonChildrens used Google's Earth AI to fill data gaps and estimate vaccination rates with "superresolution" — as deep as the zip code level — so they could find hotspots of undervaccination that correlate to measles outbreaks.

[Eric Zhou @Geng_zhou]

Digital surveillance + AI enabled this level of granularity — hopefully helpful for both future disease monitoring/health survey and public/household decision making. Coolest project I have done so far!

[Ian Weissman, DO @DrIanWeissman]

For the first time, a map has been created that allows people to type in their ZIP code and see an estimated percentage of their neighbors who have been vaccinated against measles, which can help determine the risk of the disease in their area. 
https://t.co/6Rfk7Uve1x

[Eric Zhou @Geng_zhou]

@freemanjiangg This is so cool. How do you get something like this? Is there a way to get reliable traffic count at street intersections?

[Yiqing Xu @xuyiqing]

Glad this paper with @guido_imbens is out in the JEP.

The LaLonde paper has had a big impact on my academic journey and continues to teach us about the challenges and possibilities of conducting credible inference using nonexperimental data. https://t.co/kfRlFXxULm

Many thanks to Tim for the tireless editing and suggestions. @TimothyTTaylor

[William Schpero @wschpero]

We are excited today to launch the T-MSIS Analytic Files (TAF) Analysis Reporting Checklist, which is designed to guide reporting of research using the TAF, the new generation Medicaid claims data.

See @JAMAHealthForum: https://t.co/8dbaGeM5zk

Links to key resources⬇️

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[Hugh Kearns @ithinkwellHugh]

#Halloween2025
Really scary.

[Laura Wherry @LaurawherryR]

Job opportunity - come and join our incredible research team led by @MariaSteenland as a health data analyst - partial or full telework will be considered. Happy to answer any questions over email, info here: https://t.co/2kMm46AcEt

[Ben Ippolito @ben_ippolito]

I’ve long wondered how much cost sharing actually gets paid.

Our new paper in @JAMAHealthForum uses unique data to give an answer—about half and likely falling.

[Jason Kerwin @jt_kerwin]

My job-market paper is finally published, a mere 10 years after I graduated!

👇See below for a thread about the results, and a link to the VoxDev piece about it and a super-brief podcast about the paper

[Eric Zhou @Geng_zhou]

@jt_kerwin Congrats! And kudos to the persistence and grit!

[Eric Zhou @Geng_zhou]

@jaechenique congrats!!!!!

[Eric Zhou @Geng_zhou]

Congrats!!! @Shooshan5

[Wayne State College of Liberal Arts and Sciences @WayneStateCLAS]

Congrats 🎉 to Economics Prof. Shooshan Danagoulian @Shooshan5 on being elected treasurer of the American Society of Health Economists! @ASHEcon is the leading scientific society dedicated to health economics. It publishes the American Journal of Health Economics. #WarriorStrong

[Dr. Dominic Ng @DrDominicNg]

Microsoft claims their new AI framework diagnoses 4x better than doctors.

I'm a medical doctor and I actually read the paper. Here's my perspective on why this is both impressive AND misleading ... 🧵

[Eric Zhou @Geng_zhou]

@coryfromphilly @arpitrage Trans-pacific too — I don’t care if we end up in the dragon isles

[Econometrics Papers @eBlogs]

Mining Causality: AI-Assisted Search for Instrumental Variables. https://t.co/swjIFbfRj0

[Eric Zhou @Geng_zhou]

@KhoaVuUmn Is it though? 😎