Harold Pollack
Public policy professor and author
Harold Pollack is a University of Chicago professor who works on public health and health policy. He originated the index card guide to personal finance.
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About Harold Pollack
Harold Pollack is an American professor who teaches at the University of Chicago, where he is Helen Ross Professor in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. He has researched public health and health policy. He earned an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University and a doctorate in public policy from Harvard University. He has written for outlets including the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Atlantic, and he was a special correspondent for the New Republic in 2009 and 2010. Pollack is best known to general readers for creating the index card approach to personal finance, which became the book The Index Card, co-written with Helaine Olen.