Dissertation Title： "The Dynamics of Public and Private Health Insurance in the United States"
The dissertation considers the dynamics of three types of health insurance coverage – employer-provided plans, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance...
Dissertation Title: "Evaluating State-Driven Changes to the Medicaid Program: Unintended, Intended, and Methodological Implications"
This dissertation consists of two empirical policy papers and one methods paper. All three papers examine the effect of...
Dissertation Title: "Advancing Evidence-Based Maternity Care: Empirical Studies of Technologies, Policies, and Clinical Practices in the U.S. and Abroad"
While maternal and newborn health (MNH) outcomes have improved globally over the past couple decades...
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...
Gabriella (Gaby) Aboulafia graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government with an MPP in 2023. She received her BS in Public Health through the Department of Health Policy and Management at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health in 2019...
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...
Dissertation Title: "Three Essays on Health Policy: Utilization, Policies, and Prices of Hospital Services"
How does policy influence the utilization, finances, and prices of hospitals in the United States? This dissertation addresses this question through...
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...
Dissertation Title: "Quasi-Experimental Evaluations of Pediatric Health Care: Clinical Practive Guidelins and Insurance Coverage"
The underlying theme of this dissertation is the effects of clinical and federal policy on health, utilization, and...