Experts in the News

Although Texans 16 and over are now eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, we’re not out of the woods yet, said health economics fellow Vivian Ho. “We do have a problem of disparity — people who don’t have access to the internet and good transportation are at a disadvantage,” as are the uninsured, who don’t have convenient access to the vaccine through their doctor. ”It’s not enough to widen the criteria. What we need to do is put more resources and creativity into delivering vaccines" in such communities, said Ho.

Could Gov. Greg Abbott's push to restrict voting expansions and eliminate drive-through voting in Texas hurt Republicans more than Democrats?  Urban politics fellow Bob Stein discussed the issue with Ernie Manouse.

Ken Medlock, senior director of the Center for Energy Studies, explored the causes of last month's power grid collapse — and whether knowledge gained after a similar cold snap in 2011 could have prevented the disaster.  Medlock is the James A. Baker, III, and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics.

“2020, by all accounts, was probably the most secure election in this century,” said Bob Stein, fellow in urban politics, of Gov. Abbot's call to reduce voter fraud in Texas. 

Millions of women have dropped out of the workforce since the start of the pandemic. On March 18 at 7 pm CDT, health policy fellow Quianta Moore joined a panel discussion on the pandemic’s disproportionate impact on women and how we can reverse course. Moore is the Huffington Fellow in Child Health Policy.