Dissertation Title: "Place, Racism, and Place-based Policies: Essays on Structural Racism and Community-Level Health Inequities"
This three-paper dissertation explores the relationship between structural racism and neighborhood-level health inequities. The...
Dissertation Title: "The Effects of Payment Incentives, Benefit Design, and Provider Organization on the Value of Care"
This dissertation explores how the design of payment systems and changes in the organization of providers affect the value and delivery...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Health and Economic Outcomes Over the Life-Course"
This dissertation studies how health and health policies impact economic outcomes like earnings, employment, disability application, and wealth accumulation throughout the...
Amanda M. Gutierrez received her BA in Kinesiology with a minor in Global Health Technologies from Rice University in 2013 and her MPH in Global Health with a concentration in Maternal and Child Health from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health...
Jenna Rogers is a PhD Candidate in the Harvard Health Policy Program, concentrating in Decision Sciences. Her research sits at the intersection of decision psychology, risk communication, and decision-analytic modeling, with a focus on how population...
J. Wyatt Koma is a PhD candidate in Harvard’s Health Policy program, with a concentration in political analysis. Much of his current research agenda focuses on understanding how to improve access to health care and health outcomes for low-income Americans...
Jacob Jameson graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a BA in Economics and Mathematics and from the University of Chicago with an MS in Computational Analysis and Public Policy. Before graduate school, he worked as a middle school...
Hailey Brace is a sixth year PhD Candidate in Health Policy and Economics. She earned her bachelor's degree in Policy Analysis and Management from Cornell University in 2019. Prior to the PhD program, Hailey worked for two years as a Predoctoral Research...
Andrea Luviano graduated as an MD from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (also known as Tecnológico de Monterrey) in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. After graduating, Andrea worked for four years as an advisor to the General...
Connie Xu received her bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Statistics from the University of Chicago in 2019. Following graduation, she worked as a pre-doctoral research fellow for Professor Amy Finkelstein at MIT where she contributed to projects...