[3] She uses randomized evaluations and historical public health natural experiments to study how infectious disease, human capital, and economic outcomes interact.
[4] She has studied the effects of the Tuskegee Syphills Experiment on health care utilization and mortality among Black men.
[8] Her work on the effects of physician workforce diversity in Oakland found that African-American subjects are much more likely to select every preventative health service when meeting a racially concordant doctor.
[11][12] Alsan is the co-director of the Health Care Delivery Initiative of J-PAL North America.
In her role, she has studied through evaluations the impact of messaging and incentives to increase survey response rates to identify barriers to COVID-19 testing in the US, with Banerjee and Duflo.