Allison Krugman

Allison (Allie) Krugman is the data visuals staff editor for Think Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to starting at the Council, she developed health policy and advocacy campaigns at the Community Service Society and consulted for foundations and multilateral organizations at Global Health Strategies. She is an alum of the Lede Program for Data Journalism, an intensive in narrative data analysis and visualization from Columbia Journalism School. She also holds a master's of public health in health policy analysis from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and a bachelor's degree in international relations from Claremont McKenna College.

A Chinese doctor examines an x-ray of a tuberculosis patient at the Beijing Tuberculosis Hospital on March 18, 1999.
Poverty

A Fight Unfinished: The Legacy of Tuberculosis

The chart shows average risk reduction in all-cause mortality globally and between men and women in high-income countries. Each additional year of schooling leads to a drop in mortality, and in high-income countries the effect is greatest in men. A person's risk of dying drops by 2% with every additional year of education.
Aging

A Longer Life Begins in the Classroom

by Allison Krugman

A new study measures how much extra life comes from being educated

Health-care Attacks in Myanmar
Governance

In Myanmar, Health Care Has Become a Battleground

by Allison Krugman

Three years after a military coup, attacks against health care in Myanmar have reached a tipping point

Photo of Dr. Uché Blackstock, author of Legacy.
Gender

Powerful Legacies: New Memoir Explores Racism in Health Care and Beyond

by Allison Krugman

Dr. Uché Blackstock examines the systems that oppress Black Americans and urges her readers to challenge them