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...
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...
Ibou Dieye is a PhD candidate in Health Policy at Harvard University, with a concentration in Health Economics. His research focuses on Universal Health Coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa, combining experimental and quasi-experimental methods to evaluate the...
Haley Sullivan graduated summa cum laude from Duke University in 2016 with a BS in Neuroscience. After graduation, she spent two years as a fellow at the National Institutes of Health Department of Bioethics, where she conducted research on the ethics of...
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: “Rethinking Provider Quality and Behavior: Evidence from Exemplars, Guidelines, and Teams”
Improving the quality of U.S. healthcare delivery, particularly care delivered by healthcare professionals, is a key priority in research, policy...
Dissertation Title: "Essays in Maternal and Child Health Economics"
Overall, this dissertation studies important issues around the early years of our lives, both in developing and developed countries. With coauthors I first look at how maternity and...
Dissertation Title: "Pressing Challenges in U.S. Health Policy: Polarization, Gun Violence, And Discrimination"
In this dissertation, I examine three pressing challenges in health policy in the United States: political polarization, gun violence, and...