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Dissertation Title:   "Data-Driven Healthcare Operations Management: The Role of Provider Market and Public Policy"

This dissertation aims to identify effective policies to improve the process and service of the U.S. healthcare delivery system. It focuses...

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...

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...

Rebecca Bromley-Dulfano is an MD/PhD student pursuing her medical degree at Stanford University School of Medicine and her PhD at Harvard University. She graduated from Stanford in 2018 with a BS degree with honors and coterminal MS degree in Biology...

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："Improving Reproductive Health: Assessing Determinants and Measuring Policy Impacts"

In this thesis, I investigate policies and programs to improve reproductive health. My thesis makes a substantive contribution to reproductive health...

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： "Disability and Physical Functioning in the Elderly"

Self-reported disability among the elderly population declined over the past 25 years. Since the share of elderly living with chronic disease increased and improvements in...

Dissertation Title: "Understanding the Health Care Delivery System: Empirical Investigations of Insurer Site of Care Policies and Physician Competencies"

In the United States, the path from having a medical condition to receiving medical care for that...

Dissertation Title:  "Policy and Methods in Health Services Research"

This dissertation consists of two policy papers and one methods paper, all grounded in applied, empirical health-services research. The first two papers concern the influence of...