Experts in the News

Health economics fellow Vivian Ho joins Houston Matters to discuss Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans to open new clinics in Houston and Dallas as a way to cut costs. Listen to the full program: https://bit.ly/2uXqR5F

"The problem is, there's nothing more difficult to contain than a measles epidemic," health policy fellow Peter Hotez says of the recent outbreak in New York. "The measles virus is the most highly transmissible virus we know about."

“There is a crisis in the sense that you have over 100,000 immigrants arriving at the border and we don’t really have a good system to deal with this large number of individuals,” says Baker Institute expert Mark Jones.

While the political atmosphere in Turkey gave some hope to the opposition, it instead provided a large-scale PR opportunity for Turkish President Recep Erdogan's ruling AKP, @abdaydgn writes in his analysis of Turkey's election.

Setting aside differences for the shared goal of wresting power from the AKP appears to have paved the way for opposition parties’ success in Turkey's elections, writes Middle East fellow A.Kadir Yildirim.