Dissertation Title: "Essays on Health Care Quality and Access: Cancer Care Disparities, Composite Measure Development, and Geographic Variations in Electronic Health Record Adoption"
Racial/ethnic disparities in cancer care are well documented in the...
Dissertation Title："The Value of Targeted Therapies in Lung Cancer"
The goal of this dissertation was to examine the realized value of targeted therapies in routine care and to identify opportunities for improving the return on medical spending for these...
Dissertation Title："Contested Boundaries: Evaluating Institutional and Government Authority in Academia and Public Health"
This dissertation explores tensions between individual freedom and institutional authority.
Chapter one examines public perceptions of...
Dissertation Title: "Mathematical Modeling to Evaluate Disease Control Policy"
In this dissertation I assessed three distinct policy questions: the implications of introducing a new tuberculosis diagnostic in southern Africa, the potential value of...
Dissertation Title: "Religion, Parties, and Policymaking: Health Policy Debates in the United States and Brazil"
This dissertation examines the role of religion, political parties, and strategic alliances in three contemporary health policy debates in the...
Dissertation Title: "Decision Making for Medical Innovations"
The objective of this dissertation is to evaluate decision making related to medical innovations. Paper 1 uses micro-simulation modeling techniques to evaluate the potential benefits of the...
Dissertation Title: "Priority Setting for HIV and Mental Health in Mexico: Historical, Quantitative and Ethical Perspectives"
Mexico's innovative health reforms have attracted scholarly attention beyond its own borders, making it a valuable case to...
Dissertation Title: "Essays in Health Economics: Understanding Risky Health Behaviors"
This dissertation presents three papers applying health economics to the study of risky behaviors. The first uses data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of...