Craig Pollack, MD, MHS is the inaugural Katey Ayers Professor of Health Policy and Management, Nursing, and Medicine and the Associate Chair for Research and Practice in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on the relationships between housing policy, neighborhood conditions, and health, examining the ways in which social factors contribute to or ameliorate health inequities.

Dr. Pollack's work leverages experimental and quasi-experimental designs, drawing on large scale claims data linkages, to reach powerful inferences as to the relationships between housing and health. He has tested hypotheses such as the health effects of experiencing housing foreclosure, the prevalence of COVID after states ended their eviction moratorium, and the health effects on children of moving to high opportunity neighborhoods. He is currently the principal investigator or multiple PI on four R01 grants. In particular, he is the principal investigator of the Mobility Opportunity Voucher to Eliminate Disparities (MOVED) study evaluating the health impact of the U.S. Department of Housing and Development’s new demonstration project designed to give housing voucher holders greater access to more resourced neighborhoods and co-leads the Housing assistance, Outcomes, Medicare, and SEER (HOMES) study examining the link between housing assistance and cancer outcomes. For 3 years, he served as a part-time advisor to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in their Office of Policy Development & Research, assisting the agency on housing and health issues.

Dr. Pollack is a committed mentor and primary care doctor. From 2012 to 2022, he was co-director of the Hopkins General Internal Medicine fellowship, and he continues to care for patients in his weekly continuity clinic.