Rebecca Bromley-Dulfano is an MD/PhD student pursuing her medical degree at Stanford University School of Medicine and her PhD at Harvard University. She graduated from Stanford in 2018 with a BS degree with honors and coterminal MS degree in Biology...
Towo graduated from The University of Texas at Dallas in 2018 with a BS in Neuroscience and earned her MPH in Healthcare Management from UT Health Science Center in 2021. While earning her MPH, Towo volunteered as a breast cancer advocate for local...
Katie Camacho Orona received her Bachelor of Arts with Honors and her Masters of Public Health from Brown University. While attending Brown University, Katie was the recipient of the 2017 Royce Fellowship for Sport & Society, the 2018 Milken Institute...
Dissertation Title: "Essays in Youth Mental Health: Exploring Emergency Care, Policy Interventions, and Pandemic Challenges"
In this dissertation, I explore the intricate dynamics shaping youth mental health services through three interrelated studies.
In...
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...
Dissertation Title: “Place, Policy, and Health: Essays on the Intersection of Health Policy and Social Policy”
The social safety net is vital to supporting the wellbeing of many people in the United States, but it is complex. In this dissertation, I...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Maternal Health"
This dissertation focuses on exploring the maternity episode and it's associations with healthcare use, healthcare spending, and social policies. The first chapter uses survey data and a difference-in...
Dissertation title: Methods in Longitudinal Policy Evaluation
This dissertation consists of three essays on methods and applications in longitudinal health policy evaluation.
Chapter 1, A Matter of Timing: Effects of benefit distribution timing on...
Dissertation Title: “Optimal Matched Designs to Study Post-Acute Skilled Nursing Facility Utilization and Outcomes”
Medicare spends approximately $60 billion on post-acute care, with approximately half these expenditures being on Skilled Nursing Facility...
Dissertation Title: “Hospital Responses to Changes in Incentives, Resources, and Demand”
At $1.4 trillion, US hospital spending is comparable to spending on national defense and K-12 education combined. The more populous EU spends less than half this sum...