Sudipta Saha will join as a Data Sciences Institute – School of Cities post-doctoral fellow. He previously completed his PhD in Population Health Sciences at Harvard University. He studies the political economy of health, focusing on long-run changes in mortality inequalities to understand how big, slow-moving social forces are embodied and manifest as unequal patterns of population health. His doctoral research aimed to understand how and why the geography of Black-White inequities in premature mortality in the United States changed over the past 65 years. 

His current work focuses on investigating and understanding differential health trajectories of immigrants from similar backgrounds who migrate to the United States or Canada and attempts to disentangle causal effects of destination contexts from the selection effects of migration. He is also interested in investigating changes in the geography of mortality in Canada.