David joined NHeLP in February 2011 as a policy analyst in the D.C. office. His work at NHeLP centers primarily on health reform implementation. David has a Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a focus on immigration and public health policy. David’s dissertation work investigated the design of binational public health policy and access to care issues for vulnerable migrant populations at the US/Mexico border. In 2010-11, he taught courses on health and immigration at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. In 2009-10, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University’s Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. David received his A.B. in Anthropology from Princeton University.