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Rising visa fees put immigrant doctors at risk, scholar warns
Harvard’s Eram Alam noted that the United States continues to rely on doctors trained abroad, including many from India and Pakistan.
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Pranavi Sharma - Sat, 22, Nov 2025
- 01:44 EST
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Eram Alam, associate professor of the history of science at Harvard. / Harvard Gazette
Immigrant physicians fill a critical gap in the U.S. healthcare system, and raising the cost of H-1B visas may worsen an already severe doctor shortage, according to Eram Alam, an associate professor of the history of science at Harvard.
She told the Harvard Gazette that many foreign-trained physicians rely on the visa program to work in underserved communities, where the medical need is high and recruitment is difficult.
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