As the son of a stroke rehabilitation physician and an executive with an MBA in health care administration, David has always been fascinated by health and health care. Now, he works in both of those areas, with recent work has showing that cutting family planning funding reduces incidence of preventive care and that maternal sunlight exposure during the second trimester reduces asthma. David did his doctoral work at Princeton under Janet Currie and Alan Krueger (former chairman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors), and his undergraduate work at Yale in physics and international studies.