Alumni

Julian Urrutia

Psychiatry Resident, Yale School of Medicine

Dissertation Title: "The Right to Health, the Power to Punish, and the Duty to Advocate" Paper 1: The Right to Health and the Power to Punish If prisoners have a moral right to health (RTH), then why should this be so? Moral rights do not depend on any...

Melissa Valentine

Associate Professor, Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University

Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI

Dissertation Title： "Team Scaffolds: How Minimal Team Structures Enable Role-based Coordination" In my dissertation, I integrate research on role-based coordination with concepts adapted from the team effectiveness literature to theorize how team...

Rajet Vatsa

MD student, Harvard Medical School

Dissertation Title: "Advancing Evidence-Based Maternity Care: Empirical Studies of Technologies, Policies, and Clinical Practices in the U.S. and Abroad" While maternal and newborn health (MNH) outcomes have improved globally over the past couple decades...

Elizabeth Richardson Vigdor

Associate Teaching Professor, Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington

Dissertation Title： "Measuring Health and Assessing the Impact of Health System Change" This thesis explores each of the steps in the process linking health system change to output: changes in access, changes in health, and the valuation of health. The...

Jacob Wallace

Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy), Department of Health Policy and Management, Yale School of Public Health

Dissertation Title： "How Does Managed Care Manage Care? Evidence from Public Insurance" In the United States, the fraction of individuals with public insurance is growing and the policies and markets that serve them are changing. Over two-thirds of...

Annabel Wang

Internal Medicine Resident, Brigham & Women's Hospital

Dissertation title: "Health Care Variation and Its Determinants: Studies on Physician Quality, Cancer Screening, and Cardiovascular Care" This dissertation investigates drivers of variation in health care utilization and quality, with a focus on physician...

Zachary Ward*

Assistant Professor of Health Decision Science, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

*Harvard PhD Program in Health Policy Alumnus & Faculty Member

Dissertation Title: "Computational Epidemiology: Methods and Applications for Global Health" In this dissertation I discuss the development and application of simulation-based approaches to major challenges in global health. I refer to this general...

Chapin White

Director of Health Analysis, Congressional Budget Office

Dissertation Title： "The New Medicare Prospective Payment System for Skilled Nursing Facilities: Impacts on Payments, Services and Quality of Care" In 1998 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began phasing in a new prospective payment...

Craig White

Chief Data Officer, Startup (Stealth Mode)

Dissertation Title： "Delivering the Right Amount of Care - Sometimes More is Less" New technologies utilized in clinical practice offer improved tools for diagnosing and treating patients. In some cases these improvements cause unintended consequences by...

Elizabeth Wikler

Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dissertation Title： "Transformations in Health Policy: An Analysis of Alzheimer’s Disease Testing, Medicaid Enrollment, and Insurance Market Concentration" This dissertation consists of three quantitative papers addressing contemporary issues in health...

Malcolm Williams

Director, Department of Behavioral and Policy Sciences, and Senior Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation

Professor of Policy Analysis, RAND School of Public Policy

Dissertation Title： "Individual, Clinical, and Contextual Factors Affecting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care Quality" Current research indicates that there are significant racial and ethnic disparities in the risk factors, incidence, and...

Thomas Williams

Formerly Senior Fellow, Health Care Division, NORC at The University of Chicago

Dissertation Title： "Physician Experiences and Evaluations of Managed Care Organizations: Perceived Organizational Support in Health Care" Physicians are increasingly working in managed care organizations. At the same time these organizations apply some...