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Zachary Griffen, PHD

Postdoctoral Fellow
NYU
New York, New York

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Division of Medical Ethics at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. I received my PhD in sociology at UCLA, where I also taught courses in the Human Biology and Society program offered through the Institute for Society and Genetics. As a sociologist of science, my research explores how quantitative knowledge is produced and deployed by experts across different scientific fields in order to influence social policy outcomes, particularly in healthcare and education. My work is divided into three primary lines of inquiry. Most recently, with Kellie Owens at NYU I am studying how experts are grappling with the implementation and regulation of AI tools in the healthcare system. Another major project, this one in collaboration with Aaron Panofsky from UCLA, examines the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the emergent field of research dedicated to producing polygenic scores for clinical, policy, and commercial purposes. Finally, I am still in the process of publishing research conducted for my doctorate, which was a sociological account comparing the historical trajectory of two subfields in economics, health economics and the economics of education.

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