Alumni

Andrea Ault-Brutus

Senior Assistant Dean of Communication and Advancement, and Special Assistant Professor of Community Health, Hofstra University School of Health Sciences

Dissertation Title: "Examining Changes in Mental Health Care by Race/Ethnicity: 1990-1992 to 2001-2003" Using data from the 1990-1992 National Comorbidity Survey (Time 1) and the 2001-2003 National Comorbidity Survey – Replication (Time 2), this...

Deborah Azrael

Director of Research, Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Research Associate, Dept of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Dissertation Title: "Firearms: Storage and Use at Home and Use in Suicides by Children" Each year in the United States, tens of thousands of people are killed with firearms, and many more are injured. The three papers which make up this dissertation...

Colin Baker

Analyst, Health Policy Studies Unit, Congressional Budget Office

Dissertation Title: "Topics in Labor Markets, Health, and Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance" Three questions are examined. The first concerns the effect of minimum wage hikes on employer-sponsored health insurance. Low-skilled workers have limited...

Colleen Barry

Inaugural Dean, Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University

Dissertation Title: "The Political Economy of Mental Health Parity" This thesis examines behavioral responses to parity regulation from the perspectives of the health plan, the consumer, and politicians and interest groups. Parity regulations aim to...

Benjamin Barsky

Associate Professor of Law, UC Law San Francisco

Dissertation Title: "Essays on Criminal Health Law and Policy" How does criminal law enforcement affect health? This dissertation addresses this question through three studies that employ mixed empirical methodologies. Using descriptive quantitative...

Ashley-Kay Fryer Basile

Chief Strategy Officer, Azara Healthcare

Dissertation Title: "Improving Health Care Delivery: Patient Care Integration and Manager Commitment" This dissertation investigates how patient-perceived integrated care and manager commitment influence the improvement and integration of health care...

Amber Batata

Global Head, Value and Access, Rare Diseases, Sanofi Genzyme

Dissertation Title: "Economic Analyses of Medicare HMOs" My dissertation consists of three essays, all of which attempt to broaden our knowledge of the economic implications of managed care, particularly for the elderly, in the market for health insurance...

Christine Baugh

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine and Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Dissertation Title: " Risk and Sport: Individual, Institutional, and Ethical Considerations" This dissertation applies tools from health services research to the college sports medicine context. The first two papers analyze a sample survey of college...

Sebastian Bauhoff

Principal Health Economist, Inter-American Development Bank

Dissertation Title: "Essays in Health Economics" This dissertation consists of three essays on empirical issues in health economics. The first essay considers the selection-efficiency trade-off in competitive health insurance markets, where insurers face...

Nancy Dean Beaulieu

Research Associate, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

Dissertation Title: "Quality Information and Quality Competition In the Managed Care Health Insurance Market" This thesis explores three aspects of quality information and quality competition in the managed care health insurance market. In the first...

Arielle Bensimon

Vice President, HEOR, Epidemiology & Market Access, Analysis Group

Dissertation Title: "Using Empirical Data to Evaluate Strategies to Improve Women's Health" My three papers evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of clinical and policy strategies to improve women’s health, focusing on human papillomavirus...

Tanya Bentley

CEO and Co-Founder, Health & Human Performance Foundation

Dissertation Title: "US Folic Acid Fortification Policy: Methods for Evaluating Folate Intake and Projecting Health Outcomes" Increased prenatal intake of folate or folic acid early in pregnancy can significantly reduce the risk of neural tube defects...