Experts in the News

Fellow Quianta Moore discussed her work to shape policies that advance the health of children.

“It’s incredibly hard to (make) projections about what’s going to happen because this is a unique first-time event and we have so little data,” said Vivian Ho, the director of the Center for Health and Biosciences, about the spread of coronavirus and the prediction that Houston-area hospitals won't have enough beds to deal with the crisis. “Because we don’t have that much testing, we do not know how quickly it’s spreading, what percent of cases are serious, if we can target hot-spot areas and essentially shut them down.”

Energy fellow Jim Krane figured that oil prices are already well below the $80-a-barrel level, so the Saudis will need to finance government spending.

Luz Maria Garcini, nonresident scholar for the Center for the United States and Mexico, talked to Oprah Winfrey about the border wall in a new Apple TV+ series. "It’s a reality and it’s something we need to talk about, because it’s not going away,” Garcini said.

"If you undercount the number of people, the [state’s per capita income] ends up looking higher, which means you’re going to get less Medicaid money,” said health economics fellow Vivian Ho about the importance of participation in the 2020 Census.