No, beginning in 2016-2017, those interested in earning an MD/PhD in Health Policy will only apply to HMS/MD-PhD via AMCAS, with all tailored GSAS application components included in the MD-PhD secondary application. Applicants no longer need to apply to...
Celia Stafford is a doctoral student in Health Policy (Management). She received a BA in Mathematics and Economics from Emory University in 2017 and an MPH focused in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2020. She is also...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Health Insurance: Public Opinion and Consumer Behavior"In this dissertation, I consider health insurance coverage in the United States from two perspectives. I open with a high-level analysis of trends in public opinion...
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Ownership, Supply, and Use in Medicare Home Health Care"
Chapter 1 – The Impacts of Privatization: Evidence from the Home Health Care Setting
In many sectors, privatization is pursued to improve efficiency but raises concerns...
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: "Strategic Behavior Among Provider Organizations in Risk-Sharing Contracts"
Medicare implemented population-based risk-sharing payment models that encouraged otherwise separate providers to collaborate and form Accountable Care...
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...
Dissertation Title: "Private Markets, Public Aims: Welfare Analyses of Regulated Competition in the ACA Marketplaces"
Paper 1 explores the connection between demographic disparities and rising premiums within the ACA marketplaces, extending the (Einav...
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: "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: "Essays on Regulation in Health Care Markets"
This dissertation consists of three chapters studying regulation of payer and provider health care markets.
The first chapter studies how the market definitions of the Affordable Care Act...
Dissertation Title: “Assessing Value and Optimizing Decision-Making in Post-Acute Care Across Diverse Populations”
My dissertation investigates the enhancement of value in post-acute care (PAC) within the U.S. healthcare system, focusing on the largest...