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Alister Martin

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Boston, Washington, D.C.
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Alister Martin is a practicing ER physician and former Chief Resident at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is dually appointed as an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and as Research Faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School. He leverages his background in politics, healthcare policy, and the field of behavioral economics to use the ER as a place to build programs that serve the needs of vulnerable patients that frequent it. He is the founder of Get Waivered, a program that is converti…

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New requirements make it harder for Americans who need help to get it

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By Alister Martin, Annamarie Rapa
| WBUR-FM (Boston, MA) Verified
In Massachusetts, food insecurity is at crisis levels: 37% of households reported struggling to afford food in 2024, up from 34% in 2023 and nearly double the 19% reported just five years earlier. But Bay Staters aren’t alone. American families are already stretched thin — and the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" threatens to make things worse. Nationwide, the Urban Institute projects that 22.3 million families could lose some or all of their food assistance under the bill.
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Voter registration in hospitals is the new frontier in health care

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By Alister Martin, Aliya Bhatia
| WBUR-FM (Boston, MA) Verified
In 2022, the American Medical Association (AMA) made a groundbreaking declaration: Voting is not just a civic duty, but also a social determinant of health. Social determinants of health are the conditions of the environments where people live, work and play — and remarkably, these conditions drive up to 80% of health outcomes.
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Pediatric mental health care access [PODCAST]

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By Steven Siegel, Megan Amarbayan, Sammer Marzouk, Alister Martin
| The Podcast by KevinMD Verified
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join J. Wesley Boyd, a psychiatrist, to dive into the critical issue of child and adolescent mental health care accessibility. Drawing insights from a recent study, we’ll explore how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated challenges in obtaining timely treatment for young individuals, particularly those with Medicaid.
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