Co-scientific director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) North America, Amy Finkelstein, was selected in STAT's 2023 STATUS List, an annual list world leaders in life sciences. Amy is recognised for conducting randomised control trials investigating health economics debates. In 2022, papers authored or co-authored by Amy showed that rates of opioid addiction could best be lowered by policies targeting regional variations in doctors’ willingness to prescribe the drugs and that an American’s risk of dying during the COVID-19 pandemic depended less on location than on racial or ethnic group, education level, and job sector.
