Hailey Brace is a fifth 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...
Lauren Gullett received her MS in Epidemiology from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2024 and her BS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2020. Prior to graduate school, Lauren worked as a postbaccalaureate research fellow...
Isabella Impalli graduated from Princeton University in 2023 with a BSE in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a certificate in Humanistic Studies. Isabella then spent two years as a Research Analyst at the One Health Trust (OHT), where she was...
Peter Wilschke graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2024 with BAs in Economics and Political Science. As an undergraduate, he spent a summer at the University of Chicago’s Leadership Alliance program where he studied the impact...
Janice Jhang received her BS in Policy Analysis and Management in 2019 from Cornell University, where she was a Meinig Family Cornell National Scholar and a Tanner Dean’s Scholar. She graduated from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2024...
Dissertation Title: "Distributional Causes and Consequences of Medical Innovation"
In this dissertation I examine how the benefits and costs of medical innovation are distributed across the population, identifying the channels through which inequality in...
Dissertation Title: "Economics of Prescription Drugs: Innovation, Payment, and Prescribing"
The pharmaceutical industry is an important sector in U.S. healthcare, with prescription drug expenditures accounting for $467 billion (9% of health care...
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...