Alumni

Micah Aaron

Assistant Professor, Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor School of Public Health

Dissertation Title: "Health Systems, Quality and Variation" Integrated health systems are becoming more important due to increasing trends toward consolidation in the midst of rapidly expanding health care reform efforts enacted by the Affordable Care Act...

Sara Abiola

Senior Manager, Curriculum Development in AWS Training and Certification, Amazon Web Services

Dissertation Title: "Essays on Politics, Public Health Law, and Health Outcomes in the United States and Sub-Saharan Africa" This dissertation is comprised of three papers that examine the political dimensions of health policymaking and the relationship...

Alyce Adams

Stanford Medicine Innovation Professor and Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health and of Health Policy, and, by courtesy, of Pediatrics (Endocrinology), Stanford University School of Medicine

Dissertation Title: "How Tribes Choose Between Tribal and Indian Health Service Management of Health Care Resources; Drug Coverage and Drug Use by Medicare Beneficiaries; Bias in Measures of Guideline Adherence" This dissertation is composed of three...

Julia Adler-Milstein

Professor, Department of Medicine, UCSF

Director, Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research, UCSF

Dissertation Title: "The Use of Information Technology in US Health Care Delivery" My dissertation examines a set of policy and management issues related to the use of information technology (IT) in US health care delivery. Health IT has received broad...

Sumit Agarwal

Assistant Professor, Division of General Medicine, University of Michigan School of Medicine

Assistant Professor, Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan School of Public Health (secondary)

Dissertation Title: "Impacts of Social Policies on Health” For my dissertation, I apply experimental and quasi-experimental methods to investigate how three social policy interventions influenced the demand for medical care and health. These policies are...

Emilie Aguirre

Associate Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law

Dissertation Title: "Pairing Purpose with Profit" Companies that pursue social and commercial goals have seen an unprecedented rise over the last 40 years. These companies have significant potential for social and economic impact and are emerging amidst...

Julia Aledort Gaebler

President, Market Access, Real Chemistry

Dissertation Title: "Infectious Disease Policy in the Era of Antibiotic Drug Resistance: Decision Analytic and Historical Perspectives" In the United States and abroad, infectious diseases constitute a significant public health problem. Costly new disease...

Ayfer Ali

Assistant Professor, Strategy and International Business Group, Warwick Business School, The University of Warwick

Dissertation Title: "From Idea to Product - Translating Knowledge between the Lab and the Clinic" Translating Inventions into Products: Inventors’ Educational Background And the Speed of Technology Licensing From Academic Medical Centers The great leaps...

Martin Andersen

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, UNC Greensboro

Dissertation Title: "Consequences of Government Provision and Regulation of Health Insurance" The first two chapters of this dissertation concern the effect of public catastrophic insurance programs. In the first chapter, I show how these programs, which...

Rebecca Anhang Price

Senior Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation

Dissertation Title："Adoption of New Medical Technologies: The Case of Cervical Cancer Prevention" New medical technologies have the potential to improve health outcomes substantially and cost-effectively, if used appropriately. This dissertation uses the...

Sally Araki Aalfs

Math Teacher and Middle School Math Department Chair, Woodside Priory School

Dissertation Title: "Shared Decision Making in the Treatment of Endometriosis Pain" Endometriosis is a benign gynecologic disorder that can cause potentially debilitating pain in women of reproductive age. Clinical evidence does not point to a single best...

David Auerbach

Senior Director for Research and Cost Trends, Massachusetts Health Policy Commission

Dissertation Title: "The Economics of Long-Term Care Decision-Making Among the Elderly" In the first chapter, the question of whether individuals respond to financial incentives in nursing home entry decisions is answered. The motivation for this work is...