Peer-reviewed journal articles

Valasquez Garcia D, Maddox K, Messac L. Financial assistance policies to improve post-myocardial infarction care. Journal of the American College of Cardiology (accepted for publication).

Holmes S, Rekhis M, Stonington S, Pasquini M, Messac L, Raikhel E, Kitanaka J, Macedo V, Sesia P, Pinones Rivera C, Goronga T, Keshavjee S, Mulemi B, Matache M, Marmot M. Translational social medicine for global health: Introducing cases in Global Social Medicine. Lancet. 2025; 406(10517): 2306-2307.

Messac L, Ahmed A, Shultz B. Medical debt in America, part III: Debt collection. Journal of Hospital Medicine. 2025; 20(7): 784-786.

Shultz B, Ahmed A, Messac L. Medical debt in America, part II: Financial support for the most vulnerable. Journal of Hospital Medicine. 2025; 20(6): 645-648.

Shultz B, Ahmed A, Messac L. Medical debt in America, part I: High prices, few protections. Journal of Hospital Medicine. 2025; 20(5): 521-523.

Messac L, AT Janke, L Rogers, I Fonfield, J Walker, E Rushbanks, N Becker, G Bai. 2024. US nonprofit hospitals have widely varying criteria to decide who qualifies for free and discounted charity care. Health Affairs 43 (11). 

Messac, L, I Fonfield, N Maleki and K Delaney. The policy alliance between hospitals and collection agencies: content analysis of public comments on regulations on billing and collections.  Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing 2024; 61. 

Messac, L. 2023. Debt collection in American Medicine — A history. The New England Journal of Medicine 389: 1621-25.

Messac L, A Knopov, and M Horton. 2020. Delayed care-seeking for non-COVID illnesses in Rhode Island. Rhode Island Medical Journal 103(4): 10-11.

Messac, L. 2020. Birthing a nation: wealth-in-people, political legitimacy and health policy in Hastings Kamuzu Banda’s Malawi, 1962-1980. Journal of Southern African Studies 46(2): 209-228.

Carrasco, H, L Messac, and S Holmes. 2019. Misrecognition and critical consciousness–an 18-month-old boy with pneumonia and chronic malnutrition. New England Journal of Medicine, 380: 2385-2389.

Braslow, J and L Messac. 2018. Medicalization and demedicalization–a gravely disabled homeless man with psychiatric illness. New England Journal of Medicine, 379: 1885-1888.

Messac, L. 2018. Outside the economy: women’s work and feminist economics in the construction of national income accounting. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 46(3): 552-578.

Lange, B, T Roberts, J Cohn, J Greenman, J Camp, A Ishikazi, L Messac, E Tuaillon, P van de Perre, C Pichler, C Denkinger, P Easterbrook. 2017. Diagnostic accuracy of detection and quantification of HBV-DNA and HCV-RNA using dried blood spot (DBS) samples—a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Infectious Diseases 17(Suppl 1): 71-85.

Messac, L. 2016. No opiates for the masses: untreated pain, international narcotics control and the bureaucratic production of ignorance. Journal of Policy History, 28(2):193-220.

Greenman, J, T Roberts, J Cohn, and L Messac. 2015. Dried blood spot in the genotyping, quantification and storage of HCV RNA: a systematic literature review, Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 22(4):353-361.

Messac, L. 2014. Moral hazards and moral economies: the combustible politics of healthcare user fees in Malawian history. South African Historical Journal, 66(2):371-389.

Messac, L, D Ciccarone, J Draine, and P Bourgois. 2013. The good-enough science-and-politics of anthropological collaboration with evidence-based clinical research: four ethnographic case studies. Social Science and Medicine, 99:176-186.

Peer-reviewed chapters in edited volumes

Farmer, P, M Basilico, and L Messac. 2016. After McKeown: the changing roles of biomedicine, public health and economic growth in mortality declines, in Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century, eds. Jeremy Greene, Flurin Condrau, and Elizabeth Watkins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Messac, L, and K Prabhu. 2013. Redefining the possible: AIDS as a global priority at the dawn of the 21st Century, in Rethinking Global Health: An Introduction, eds. Matthew Basilico, Paul Farmer, Jim Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, University of California Press.

Drobac, P, M Basilico, L Messac, D Walton, and P Farmer. 2013. Building a rural health delivery model in Haiti and Rwanda, in Rethinking Global Health: An Introduction, eds. Matthew Basilico, Paul Farmer, Jim Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, University of California Press.