Matthew Basilico

Matthew Basilico MD, PhD is a physician-social scientist who is Chief Resident in Interventional Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, Lecturer in Social Studies and Economics at Harvard FAS, Lecturer in Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda. He is a graduate of the Social Studies undergraduate program at Harvard, with a senior thesis advised by physician-anthropologist Paul Farmer. After completing a Fulbright fellowship in Malawi with the organization Partners In Health, he co-authored the textbook Reimagining Global Health (University of California Press, 2013) with physician-anthropologists Paul Farmer, Jim Kim and Arthur Kleinman. Subsequently, Matthew completed an MD-PhD in Economics at Harvard University, with a dissertation utilizing econometric techniques to characterize risk for mental health and substance use disorders. He currently teaches The Economics of Development and Global Health at both the Harvard FAS Economics Department and Harvard Medical School, as well as The Economics of Mental Health and Homelessness. He is interested in rigorous, transdisciplinary social science approaches to characterizing the multifaceted relationship between society and mental health, with a particular focus on childhood trauma, severe mood disorders, and chronic homelessness.