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...
Katarina Swanson holds a BA in Economics from Carleton College and an MSc in Health Economics from the London School of Economics (LSE). Following her graduation from Carleton, she spent three years at The Lewin Group working on the evaluation of the...
Nolan M. Kavanagh is an M.D./Ph.D. student, completing his M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania and Ph.D. at Harvard University. He graduated from the University of Michigan with his B.S. in biochemistry and Spanish and his M.P.H. in health behavior and...
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...
Carolyn San Soucie graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2018 with a Bachelor of Science and Arts in Biochemistry and a Bachelor of Arts in Plan II Honors, an interdisciplinary liberal arts degree. Concurrently, she received a graduate...
Dissertation Title: "Insurance Coverage for Pregnant Women: Assessing Patterns, Policy Impacts and Methods for Evaluation"
This dissertation includes two applied studies on health insurance coverage for pregnant women in the United States and one...
Dissertation Title: "Improving Migrant Health Policies and Programs: From the Normative to the Positive"
As the population of migrants continues to grow, ensuring migrant health needs are met is a global-public health priority. This dissertation examines...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Payment Reform, Physician Compensation and the Clinical Workforce"
Chapter 1 studies the impact of the Medicaid Expansion on states' clinical workforce. Expansion states experienced health care and economic improvements...
Dissertation Title: "Evaluating Access to Care and Health Outcomes in Public and Private Insurance"The objective of this dissertation is to evaluate whether changes in insurance coverage and provider decision making are associated with changes in the use...
Dissertation Title: "Evaluating State-Driven Changes to the Medicaid Program: Unintended, Intended, and Methodological Implications"
This dissertation consists of two empirical policy papers and one methods paper. All three papers examine the effect of...