Darrell J. Gaskin
Research Fellow
dgaskin1@jhu.edu
Darrell J. Gaskin is the William C. and Nancy F. Richardson Professor in Health Policy and director of the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His work in the area of health and health care disparities seeks to identify and understand how contextual factors influence access to care, quality of care and health outcomes for vulnerable populations. His research addresses the social determinants of health and practices to promote equity in health and well-being.
A leader in the field of health economics and policy, Gaskin is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He sits on the Congressional Budget Office Panel of Health Advisors and the board of directors for the American Society of Health Economists. He has served in leadership roles at AcademyHealth, the American Public Health Association, the National Academy for State Health Policy and the National Economics Association. He is a 2019 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Gaskin has a Ph.D. in public health economics from Johns Hopkins University. He holds a M.S. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. in economics from Brandeis University. He is an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and served as pastor of the Beth Shalom AME Zion Church in Clinton, Md., from 1991 to 2023.
