Health policy is an interdisciplinary field that examines the organization and financing of health systems and services; the impact of health policies on population health; and the economic, social and behavioral determinants of health. It involves the investigation of all systems that affect population health, not just the medical care system. The purview of health policy is global.
The mission of our program is to prepare students for research careers in health policy and health services research; teaching; and public service in university, governmental and public policy settings. This program is distinguished by its interdisciplinary application of the social and behavioral science disciplines to real world health issues. Graduates are prepared to play lead scientific roles in addressing the many challenges facing health care and public health systems in the United States and countries around the world.
Curriculum
Students must successfully complete a health services research readings and methods seminar (two semesters), five specialty field courses, three quantitative research methods courses, and three additional graduate elective courses.
The program includes three specialty fields:
- The Health Economics specialty field draws on economics, epidemiology and statistics to understand the causal relationship between different aspects of health and the health care sector. With an emphasis on quantifying relationships, health economics covers a broad range of study areas including health production, demand and supply of health services, health care financing, behavioral responses to institutional or policy incentives, policy evaluations and other efficiency, and equity issues surrounding health.
- The Organizations & Management specialty field trains scholars in organizational behavior and political science in regards to health. Theories and methods in organizational sociology, political science and social psychology are central to the study of health organizations. Specialty field courses in macro-organizational theory, micro-organizational theory and organizational analysis of the health sector are required. This specialty field emphasizes the management of health care and public health organizations and systems, the implementation and dissemination of policies and practices within and across organizations, and the role of policy-making institutions as platforms for the creation and modification of health policies.
- The Population Health Sciences specialty field trains students for research careers in the social, behavioral, and economic determinants of health and the study of interventions, policies, and practices that impact the health of populations and vulnerable communities. The specialty field emphasizes addressing the social and behavioral determinants of health through quantitative research informed by theoretical frameworks in economics, psychology, demography, and social epidemiology. Training in innovative methodologies for establishing causal relationships in quasi-experimental research is a cornerstone of the Population Health Sciences specialty field. Students will learn and integrate cutting-edge methods from key areas of strength at Berkeley: biostatistics, social science methods such as econometrics and formal demography, and the rapidly evolving set of data science innovations such as machine learning that are being advanced at Berkeley including in the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society. The explosion of health sector data availability, along with Berkeley’s innovation hub positioning, make this an excellent track for students looking to become quantitative experts who can lead research across a wide variety of population health science and health policy questions.
Students have access to all of UC Berkeley’s disciplines and professional schools, in addition to UCSF faculty and research programs. This is a full-time program geared for careers in academia and research and students typically complete it in four to five years. Our program is administered by Berkeley Public Health and the doctoral degree is granted by UC Berkeley’s Graduate Division.
Graduates can achieve and demonstrate expertise in the following major academic outcomes:
- Develop domain expertise in core works in health policy and the selected specialty field.
- Understand central social science theoretical frameworks and debates shaping health policy.
- Demonstrate substantive knowledge of the specialty field sufficient to design and teach graduate-level courses in that field.
- Demonstrate the ability to conduct rigorous quantitative research.
- Plan and conduct independent research using advanced research methods.
- Demonstrate the mastery of academia and grant writing, conference presentation, IRB procedures and ethics in research.
- Engage in intellectual exchange among students and faculty across the university to enhance interdisciplinary research and training.
Qualifications
A master’s degree is not a requirement for this program, however, entering students should have completed introductory coursework in statistics, microeconomics, epidemiology and public health. Students without master’s-level coursework in these areas are required to take relevant courses at UC Berkeley or otherwise demonstrate mastery of these areas.
Employment
Graduates are well-prepared to assume academic careers in research and teaching. Many of our graduates move directly to positions in academia, government or research organizations. Other graduates receive postdoctoral fellowships to continue specific training in their area of interest and research.
Admissions
To apply to the Health Policy PhD program, please complete the UC Berkeley Graduate Division admissions application. This program does not use the SOPHAS application.
Submissions of GRE scores are optional but strongly recommended for this program. Especially if you have no other evidence of quantitative, verbal, or analytical abilities in your application. If not submitting a score, competitive applicants will need to provide alternative evidence of strong quantitative capability and should speak to their analytical and quantitative preparation for the PhD program in their application based on past coursework (e.g. statistics, microeconomics, math) and/or professional experience.
Please submit a writing sample and provide a list of publications and/or presentations related to your academic or professional background (include the PubMed ID if applicable).
If your work is published as a website or part of it, please provide the URL. Your writing sample can be a written assignment, journal article, report, Op-Ed, commentary, conference abstract, or other publication. Please enter your most recent citation first.
This is a quantitatively-oriented health policy program. Prospective applicants primarily interested in qualitative methods are advised to explore related programs such as the UC Berkeley PhD in Social Welfare or Medical Anthropology, or the UCSF Sociology program. Prospective applicants instead primarily focused on computational methods should also consider related UC Berkeley PhD programs in Biostatistics or Computational Precision Health.
Faculty
Core Health Policy PhD Program Faculty
The core PhD program faculty members of the School of Public Health, the Haas School of Business, School of Social Welfare, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and the Departments of Economics, Sociology, and Political Science.
Adrian Aguilera PhD
Associate Professor, Social Welfare
Stefano M. Bertozzi MD, PhD
Professor, Health Policy and Management
Amanda Brewster PhD, MSc
Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management
Timothy T. Brown PhD
Associate Adjunct Professor, Health Economics
Emmeline Chuang PhD
Associate Professor, Social Welfare
Julianna Deardorff, PhD
Executive Associate Dean
William H. Dow PhD
Professor, Health Policy and Management
Lia Fernald PhD, MBA
Brian and Jennifer Maxwell Endowed Professor in Public Health, Community Health Sciences
Mark Fleming PhD
Assistant Professor, Health and Social Behavior
Brent Fulton PhD, MBA
Associate Research Professor, Health Economics and Policy
Paul J. Gertler, PhD
Li Ka Shing Professor of Economics, Haas School of Business
Jenny S. Guadamuz, PhD, MSPH
Assistant Professor, Health Policy & Management
Ben Handel
Associate Professor, Economics
Rucker Johnson
Chancellor's Professor, Public Policy
Ann Keller PhD
Associate Professor, Community Health Sciences
Jonathan Kolstad
Associate Professor, Economic Analysis and Policy
Ambar La Forgia, PhD
Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business
Cassondra Marshall DrPH, MPH
Assistant Professor, Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Program
Sandra McCoy PhD, MPH
Academic Advisor - Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Ziad Obermeyer MD
Blue Cross of California Distinguished Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management
Emily J. Ozer PhD
Professor, Community Health Sciences
James C. Robinson PhD, MPH
Professor, Health Policy and Management
Hector Rodriguez PhD, MPH
Professor, Health Policy and Management
Rebecca Staiger, PhD
Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management
Emeriti Faculty
Emeritus faculty of the Health Policy Faculty Group are Professors of the Graduate School and may serve on dissertation committees as Chair, inside members, or as an Academic Senate Representative. Their availability to students, however, may be limited compared to core faculty group members.
| Joan Bloom | Stephen Shortell |
| Ralph Catalano | Lonnie Snowden |
| Thomas Rundall | Laura Stoker |
| Richard Scheffler |
UCSF Affiliated Faculty
Affiliated UCSF health policy faculty can serve as co-chairs and as additional members of dissertation committees.
| Julia Alder-Milstein | Margot Kushel |
| Andrew Auerbach | Courtney Lyles |
| Naomi Bardach | Kathryn Phillips |
| Claire Brindis | Joanne Spetz |
| Janet Coffman | Urmimala Sarkar |
| Daniel Dohan | Justin White |
| Emily Finlayson |
Affiliated Faculty
Faculty who are affiliated with the doctoral program play a contributing role for PhD students. Many of the affiliated faculty teach courses that are part of the core curriculum and serve as graders of specialty field exams. Most importantly, they serve as Academic Senate Representatives of qualifying exam and dissertation committees.
Health Policy Research Centers at UC Berkeley and UCSF
Health Policy PhD students have access to a wide range of resources at UC Berkeley and UCSF, including highly regarded research centers. Below are brief descriptions of a selected list of research centers most closely aligned with the Health Policy PhD program. These Centers include faculty from a wide variety of backgrounds and disciplines who bring expertise in health services research and provide settings for intensive training and mentorship opportunities for trainees.
The Berkeley Center for Health Technology (BCHT), co-directed by Dr. James Robinson (Director) and Dr. Tim Brown (Associate Director), promotes the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare through research and education on the development, insurance coverage, payment, and appropriate use of medical technologies. The focus of BCHT is on biopharmaceuticals, implantable medical devices, insurance benefit design, and payment methods. Research initiatives include leadership roundtables, case studies of leading organizations, and econometric analyses of public and private data sources. BCHT helps stakeholders design a healthcare system that combines innovation and entrepreneurship with economic efficiency and social fairness.
The UC Berkeley Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare, co-directed by Dr. Richard Scheffler (Director) and Dr. Brent Fulton (Associate Director), focuses on consumer protection, affordability and access to healthcare, especially for low and middle-income individuals. The Petris Center also focuses on and the role of information in consumer choice, and regulation and competition within healthcare markets. The research center is named after former California State Senator Nicholas Petris, who advocated strongly on behalf of California consumers for affordable, accessible, and quality healthcare.
The UC Berkeley Center for Healthcare Organizational and Innovation Research (CHOIR), co-directed by Dr. Hector Rodriguez (Director) and Dr. Amanda Brewster (Associate Director) aspires to help make the U.S. healthcare system among the most responsive in the world through practice-based research and dissemination of evidence. CHOIR emphasizes innovations in healthcare delivery and assessment of organizational performance to improve the technical quality of care delivered, patient experience and outcomes of care, population health, and cost. CHOIR works to maximize their “voice” and impact through webinars, roundtables, and discussions with private and public sector action and thought leaders.
The Laboratory for Systems Medicine, directed by Dr. Ziad Obermeyer, applies methods from machine learning, biostatistics, and econometrics to the complex world of medical diagnoses, interventions, and outcomes. The center translates large observational datasets into new ways to understand and improve the life and death decisions that providers and patients make every day, in the US and across the world.
The Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA), directed by Professor William Dow, was founded in 1993 to promote interdisciplinary research on the economic and demographic aspects of aging. In response to the growing demand from government agencies, Congress, and academic researchers for timely, accessible, and practical information as well as basic research. At the central core of CEDA is a group of outstanding formal and mathematical and statistical demographers who apply their skills to a variety of research areas, including biodemography, demographic modeling and forecasting, and intergenerational transfers including fiscal accounting. This central core is enriched by other themes, notably psychological and behavioral economics with applications to economic and health-related behaviors.
The UC-Berkeley Opportunity Lab (O-Lab), co-directed by Professor Ben Handel and Professor Hilary Hoynes serves as the central research hub for Berkeley scholars conducting rigorous, data-driven research on social and economic inequality in the United States. Our network of faculty and graduate students work across disciplines and study a wide array of topics, from the role of childhood food security on long-term economic security to the disparate impacts of climate change on low-income communities.
The UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital carries out innovative research to prevent and treat chronic disease in populations for whom social conditions often conspire to both promote various chronic diseases and make their management more challenging. Beyond the local communities it serves, CVP is nationally and internationally known for its research in health communication and health policy to reduce health disparities, with special expertise in the social determinants of health, including literacy, food policy, poverty, and minority status, with a focus on the clinical conditions of pre-diabetes, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. CVP is at the frontline of practice-based research on chronic diseases for the diverse and disadvantaged populations of San Francisco and the Bay Area. UCSF faculty mentors Drs. Margot Kushel, Courtney Lyles, and Urmimala Sarkar are core CVP faculty.
The Healthforce Center at UCSF was founded in 1992 to help healthcare leaders and policymakers better understand the health workforce and develop successful strategies and policies. The Center’s dynamic leadership training programs have touched thousands of people across the entire healthcare ecosystem who continue to make significant and meaningful change in healthcare. UCSF Professor Janet Coffman and Professor Joanne Spetz are core faculty of the center.
Current Health Policy PhD Students
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Alumni
Graduates of the UC Berkeley Ph.D. Program in Health Policy (formerly “Health Services and Policy Analysis”) hold leading research and teaching positions at academic and research institutions both within the United States and internationally. Many of our alumni hold tenured or tenure-track positions at respected universities and colleges such as Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University, Cornell University, UCSF, and Dartmouth College. Our recent alumni have also successfully obtained post-doctoral appointments at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Yale University, and Stanford University.
The following is a partial listing of PhD program alumni, their dissertation titles, and their current employment.
Jonathan Agnew PhD
Cost and Utilization of Outpatient Prescription Drugs Among the Elderly: Implications for a Medicare Benefit
Owner and President, Agnew and Associates Medical Writing
Vancouver, BC
Sangeeta C. Ahluwalia PhD
Professionalism among Physicians: Factors Associated with Outpatient Palliative Care Referral in a Managed Care Organization
Senior Policy Researcher & Associate Director, Behavioral and Policy Sciences
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
Jim Bellows PhD
Use of Worker’s Compensation Medical Care: Health Insurance Matters
Managing Director
Kaiser Permanente Care Management Institute, Oakland CA
Aman Bhandari PhD
National Estimates and Predictors of Pharmacy Utilization and Out-of-Pocket Prescription Drug Expenditures in Underserved Populations
Vice President, Data Strategy and Solutions, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Boston, MA
Claire Boone PhD
Essays in Health and Behavioral Economics
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Chicago
Timothy T. Brown PhD
Three Essays on the Labor Market for Nonphysician Clinicians
Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management
Associate Director of Research, Berkeley Center for Health Technology
University of California Berkeley, School of Public Health, Berkeley CA
Sahai Burrowes PhD
Essays on the Political Impact of Development Assistance Allocation in Malawi
Associate Professor of Public Health
Touro University, Vallejo CA
Drew Cameron, PhD
The effect of short-term subsidies on future demand for potable water in rural Bihar, India: A randomized controlled trial
Assistant Professor of Public Health (Health Policy)
Yale University School of Public Health
Lawrence Casalino, M.D. PhD
Medical Groups and Physician Organization; Physician-Hospital and Physician-Health Plan Relationships; Physician Organization and Quality
Professor Emeritus of Population Health Sciences
Weill Cornell Medical College
Aaron Caughey, M.D. PhD
Applications from Behavioral Economics to Decision Making in the Setting of Prenatal Diagnosis
Professor and Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR
Paulette Cha PhD
Essays on Health Economics and Immigration
Fellow
Public Policy Institute of California
Susan Chapman PhD
The Experience of Returning to Work for Employed Women with Breast Cancer
Professor, UCSF School of Nursing
San Francisco, CA
Ann Chou PhD
Shared decision making: The selection process of treatment options and resulting quality of life implications for women with breast cancer
Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine, Health Sciences Center
University of Oklahoma
Elizabeth Ciemins PhD
The Effect of Mental Health Parity on Children’s Mental Health and Substance Abuse Service Utilization in Massachusetts
Director of Research and Analytics
American Medical Group Association Foundation, Alexandria, VA
Janet Coffman PhD
All Capitated Systems are not Alike: Effects of Organizational Structure, Culture, and Climate on Medicaid Recipients Use of Inpatient Psychiatric Care
Professor of Health Policy
Institute for Health Policy Studies, UC San Francisco
Carrie Colla PhD
Effects of the San Francisco Employer Health Spending Mandate
Professor of Health Economics
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover NH
Leeann Comfort, PhD
Applications and Extensions of Organization Theory: The Context of Accountable Care Organizations
Scientist Administrator, Social Science Researcher
Division of Healthcare Delivery and Systems Research
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
David Contreras-Loya PhD
Managerial Practices and Altruism in Health Care Delivery
Research Professor
Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública
Tecnológico de Monterrey
Jan Cooper PhD
Money, Sex, and Power – An Analysis of Relationship Power in the Context of Conditional Cash Transfer Interventions to Reduce Risky Sex in Tanzania
Researcher, Global Health and Policy Analysis
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Jae Corman, PhD
Foreclosures and Health
Senior Director of Analytics
Folx Health
Alison Evans Cuellar PhD
Changing Markets and Hospital: Managed Care, Horizontal Integration and Vertical Alignment
Professor of Health Administration and Policy
Associate Dean of Research, College of Public Health
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Julie Dang PhD
Two Shots to Cancer Prevention: Improving the Uptake of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine among Preadolescent Patients of a Primary Care Network
Assistant Professor & Executive Director, Office of Community Outreach and Engagement
UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center
Maria Dieci PhD
Patient vs. provider incentives for malaria care: A cluster randomized controlled trial in Kenyan pharmacies
Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management
Emory University
Ebbin Dotson PhD
The Business Case for Leadership Diversity in Health Care
Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
April Falconi PhD
Perimenopause as a Sensitive Period for Women’s Health and Aging: A Review of the Chronic Disease Literature and Two Empirical Tests of Significance
Associate Director, Elevance Health
Kevin Feeney PhD
Essays on Cash Transfers and Health
Economist, Amazon
Los Angeles, CA
Sara Fernandes-Taylor PhD
Provider Communication, Self-Reported Health, and Post-Treatment Regret among Young Breast Cancer Survivors
Scientist III
Department of Surgery
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
Robin Flagg PhD
Governor Decision Making: Expansion of Medicaid Under the Affordable Care Act
Continuing Lecturer, Division of Health Policy and Management
University of California, Berkeley
Jennifer Frehn, PhD
Understanding the Influences and Organization of Systems to Improve Community Health
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, School of Public Health
UCLA
Vicki Fung PhD
The Effects of Losing Brand-Name Drug Coverage: Changes in Use of Inhaled Steroids and Clinical Outcomes Among Medicare Beneficiaries with Asthma
Associate Professor of Medicine, Mongan Institute for Health Policy
Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Boston, MA
Daniel Gentry PhD
Organizational Bureaucracy, Legitimacy, and “Thrival”: A Study of the Response by AIDS Service Organizations in Twenty California Counties to the Ryan White CARE Act of 1990
President & CEO, Association of University Programs in Health Administration
Gabrielle Goldstein, J.D. PhD
A Market for Ethics
Counsel
Nixon Peabody LLP
San Francisco, CA
Julia Goodman PhD
Three Essays on Maternity Leave Policies, Utilization and Consequences
Assistant Professor of Public Health
OHSU & Portland State University School of Public Health
Lakshmi Gopalakrishnan PhD
Gender norms as a social determinant of health and well-being of married adolescent girls and young women in South Asia
Postdoctoral Fellow
UCSF
Ilana Graetz PhD
The Impact of EHR and Teamwork on Care Transitions and Patient Outcomes
Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Chaoran Guo PhD
Social Learning in Health Insurance Choices: Evidence from Employer-Sponsored Health Plans
Senior Data Scientist, Netflix
Los Gatos, CA
Emily Hague PhD
Antecedents and Outcomes Associated with Hospital Participation in a Clinically Integrated Network
Health Policy Researcher
Mathematica Policy Research, Oakland, CA
Courtnee Hamity PhD
Social Influence and Innovation Adoption in the Clinical Setting
Senior Program Officer, Evaluation and Data Strategy
Blue Shield of California Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Alein Haro-Ramos PhD
Racism, Illegality, and Population Health: Mechanisms, Interventions, & Community-Engaged Research
UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Health, Society, and Behavior
University of California, Irvine
Zoë K. Harris PhD
Private Health Insurance Sponsored Wellness Programs: Examining Participation in the Healthy Lifestyle Rewards Financial Incentives Program on Health Care Costs, Utilization, and Risk Behaviors
Executive Director, Head of Customer Engagement Strategy & Operations
Genetech
Nianyi Hong, PhD
Essays on Patient and Firm Behavior in Health Economics
Analyst, Congressional Budget Office
Washington, DC
Thomas Huber PhD
The Role of Micro and Macro Level Organizational Coordination in Accountable Care Organizations
Adjunct Professor, The Ohio State University
Dorothy Hung PhD
Behavioral Preventive Service Delivery, Productivity, and Staff Turnover in Primary Care Practices: The Role of Participation in Decision Making and the Chronic Care Model
Research Scientist and Director, Center for Lean and Engagement Research, School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley
Vanessa Hurley PhD
Collaborative Learning among Health Care Practice and Systems to Improve Patient-Centered Care
Assistant Professor of Health Systems Administration
Georgetown University
Jenny Hyun PhD
Person-Centered Care Program Philosophy in Capitated Community Mental Health Centers in Colorado
Director, Business Intelligence
Vituity, Emeryville, CA
Jennifer K. Ibrahim PhD
State Medicaid Coverage for Tobacco Dependence Treatments: Implications for a Federal Mandate
Dean and Professor, College of Public Health and School of Social Welfare
Temple University, Philadelphia PA
Jae Kennedy PhD
Americans Needing Assistance with Activities of Daily Living: Current Estimates and Policy Implications
Professor of Health Policy and Administration
Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine
Washington State University, Spokane WA
Jung Kim, PhD
Examining factors associated with learning and performance in primary care Graduate Medical Education organizations
Assistant Professor, Health Systems Science
Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine
Margae Knox, PhD
Health System Efforts to Address Health Related Social Needs: Implications for Public Health, Health Services Use, and Quality Outcomes
Postdoctoral Delivery Science Fellow
Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente
Heather Knauer, PhD
Parenting and Child Development in Rural Mexico: Examination of a Large-Scale Parenting Program
Adjunct Assistant Professor
School of Social Work
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Ada Kwan, PhD
Can We Improve Quality of Care in Private Health Sectors? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Kenya
Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Susan Lehrman PhD
Hospitals’ Participation in the Nursing Home Market
Professor and Dean Emeritus, Rohrer College of Business
Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey
Jing Li PhD
Altruism and Efficiency Preferences of U.S Medical Students and their Expected Specialty Choice
Assistant Professor of Health Economics
School of Pharmacy, University of Washington
Rui Li PhD
Effect of Financial Incentives on Physician Productivity in Medical Groups
Senior Economist, Division of Reproductive Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta GA
Michael Lin PhD
Nursing Home Quality: Structure and Strategy
Senior Scientist, Telligen
Denver, CO
Jenny Liu PhD
Healthy Time, Home Production, and Labor Supply: The Effect of Health Shocks on Time Use within Chinese Households during Economic Transition
Professor of Health Economics
School of Nursing
University of California, San Francisco
Christopher Lowenstein PhD
Essays on labor markets and health: Employment conditions and drug, suicide, and alcohol-related mortality among working-age adults in the United States
Postdoctoral Fellow, Epidemiology
Stanford University
Martin Marciniak PhD
Too Good to Be True? The Effect of Nicotine Replacement Therapy on an Individual’s Ability to Quit Smoking
Vice President and Head, US Health Outcomes
Chiesi USA, Inc.
Soledad Martinez PhD
Income, Health Insurance Type and the Quality of Primary Care Systems in Chile: Effects on Health Outcomes and Utilization of Services
Assistant Professor
School of Public Health at Universidad de Chile, Santiago Chile
Jill Marsteller PhD
The Relationship between Non-Racial Diversity in Team Composition and Performance and Creativity in a Chronic Illness Care Quality Improvement Intervention
Professor, Health Policy and Management
Bloomberg School of Public Health, John Hopkins University, Baltimore MD
Peter Martelli PhD
An Argument for Knowledge Variety in Evidence-Based Management
Associate Professor of Healthcare Administration
Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University, Boston, MA
Sean McClellan PhD
When does Adoption of Health Information Technology by Physician Practices Lead to Use by Physicians within the Practice?
Health Policy Researcher
Abt and Associates, Boston, MA
Rodney K. McCurdy PhD
Network Influence on Chronic Illness Care in Large Physician Organization: A Study of the California Managed Care Network in 2001 and 2006
Professor and Program Director
National University
Detroit, MI
Kathryn McDonald PhD
Ambulatory Care Organizations: Improving Diagnosis
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Nursing
Sara McMenamin PhD
Organizational Support for Smoking Cessation Interventions in Physician Organizations
Associate Professor, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health & Human Longevity
University of California, San Diego
Angela Merrill PhD
Subjective Expectations of Nursing Home Use, Medicaid, and Economic Behavior by Older Americans
Principal Researcher
Mathematica Policy Research, Cambridge MA
Chris Miller-Rosales, PhD
Advancing Organizational Capabilities to Improve Patient Engagement in Health Care
Associate, Analysis Group
Menlo Park, CA
Eric Nauenberg PhD
Air Pollution and Hospitalization for Asthma in Los Angeles County: Economic and Policy Implications
Associate Professor of Health Economics
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care/Dept of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Canada
Zachary Olson, PhD
Can a Conditional Cash Transfer Reduce Teen Fertility? The Case of Brazil’s Bolsa Familia
Senior Economist, Amazon
Seattle, WA
Michael K. Ong, MD, PhD
The Effects of Regulatory Change on the Safety of Pharmaceutical Innovations
Professor in Residence, Division of GIM & HSR
Associate Chief of Staff for Research
Department of Medicine, UCLA and VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA
Laura Packel PhD
Who Changes How: Strategies and Motivation for Risk Reduction Behaviors in the Context of an Economic-based HIV Prevention Intervention in Tanzania
Research Director, McCoy Research Group
University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health
Mary Paterson PhD
Financial Status of Retiree Caregivers: An Analysis of the Asset Structure of the Retiree Caregiver
Professor Emeritus, School of Nursing
The Catholic University of America, Washington DC
Krista Perreira PhD
Exits, Recidivism, and Caseload Growth: The Effect of Private Health Insurance Markets on the Demand for Medicaid
Professor of Health Economics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine
Dana Petersen PhD
Social Capital, Social Support, and Quality of Life among Long-Term Breast Cancer Survivors
Senior Researcher
Mathematic Policy Research, Oakland CA
Aryn Phillips, PhD
The Impact of Retail Availability on Health Behaviors: Policy Applications for the Prevention & Management of Chronic Conditions
Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management
School of Public Health
University of Maryland, College Park
Kathryn Phillips PhD
Public Policy and Screening: The Influence of State Policies on Utilization of Human Autoimmunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Screening
Professor of Health Economics and Health Services Research
UCSF School of Pharmacy, San Francisco CA
Jessica Poon, PhD
Multilevel Pathways to Patient-Centered Care
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Division of Research
Kaiser Permanente
Alexis Pozen PhD
Price Variation for Colonoscopy in a Commercially Insured Population
Assistant Professor
City University of New York School of Public Health
New York NY
Brian Quinn PhD
The Effect of Community-Level Unemployment On Preventive Oral Health Care Utilization
Associate Vice President, Research-Evaluation-Learning
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton NJ
Nadia Safaeinili PhD
Evaluation of a statewide integrated medical and social service case management policy innovation: A multi-level assessment of equitable implementation for frontline staff and high-risk, high-need Medicaid patients
Research Scientist, School of Medicine
Stanford University
Robert Schell PhD
Understanding the Role of Socioeconomic, Health Behavioral, and Genetic Factors in Cardiovascular Disease Risk
Associate, Analysis Group
Menlo Park, CA
Julie Schmittdiel PhD
The Effect on Primary Health Care Orientation on Chronic Care Management
Research Scientist and Associate Director of Health Care Delivery and Policy
Division of Research
Kaiser Permanente Northern California
Oakland CA
John Schneider PhD
Regulation and Regulatory Reform in the U.S. Hospital Industry, 1980-1996
CEO and Founder
Avalon Health Economics, Morristown NJ
Neil J. Sehgal PhD
Social Influences on Healthcare Outcomes in a Major Academic Medical Center
Associate Professor of Health Systems and Population Health
School of Public Health, University of Washington
Tetine Sentell PhD
Literacy, Health, and Health Services Use in a Nationally Representative Sample
Chin Sik & Hyun Sook Chung Endowed Chair
Department of Health Policy and Management
Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health
Gordon Shen PhD
Global Mental Health Policy Diffusion, Institutionalization, and Innovation
Assistant Professor of Management, Policy and Community Health
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health
Timothy Snail PhD
The Effects of Hospital Contracting for Physician Services on Hospital Performance
Vice President, Charles River Associates
Boston, MA
Sean Sullivan PhD
The Demand for Prescription Drugs in Elderly Americans
Professor of Health Economics and Dean Emeritus
School of Pharmacy, University of Washington
Aaron Tierney PhD
Virtual Diabetes and Hypertension Care in Community Health Centers: Use, Quality, and Patient Preferences
Clinical Informatics Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Research
Kaiser Permanente
Yi-Wen Tsai PhD
Cigarette Taxation, National Health Insurance
Professor, Institute of Health and Welfare Policy
National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan
Lauren van der Walt PhD
Increasing Women’s Access to Information about Safe Abortion Methods through Local and Global Hotlines
Executive Director, Optio
Berkeley, CA
Megan Vanneman PhD
Consequences of Devolution: Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Equity in California’s County-based Public Mental Health Care System
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Population Health Sciences
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Todd Wagner PhD
The Economics of Consumer Health Information
Director, Health Economics Resource Center
Department of Veterans Affairs
Professor of Surgery
Stanford University
Zachary Wagner PhD
Community Health Workers to Increase Use of ORS and Zinc to Treat Child Diarrhea in Uganda: A Cluster Randomized Trial
Associate Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation
Santa Monica, CA
Neal Wallace PhD
A Production Function Approach to Mental Health Service Coordination in California’s Publicly Financed Mental Health System
Professor of Health Systems Management and Policy
OHSU-Portland State University School of Public Health
Jessica Watterson PhD
Influences on the Effectiveness of Health Information Technology Innovations in Primary Health Care
Senior Research Fellow in Public Health
Monash University
Melbourne, Australia
Christopher M. Whaley PhD
The Effects of Consumer Information and Cost-Sharing on Healthcare Prices
Policy Researcher
RAND Corporation
Justin White PhD
A Team-Based Behavioral Economics Experiment on Smoking Cessation
Associate Professor of Health Economics
Department of Health Law, Policy & Management, School of Public Health
Boston University
Frances Wu PhD
The Role of Health Information Technology in Early Accountable Care Organizations in the U.S.
Research Associate, The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Jill Yegian PhD
Politics, Economics, and Organizational Innovation in the Small Group Market for Health Insurance
Principal, Yegian Health Insights, LLC
Oakland, CA
Myoungsoon You PhD
Determinants of Risk Perception among Women with a Family History of Breast Cancer
Professor
Seoul National University, Korea
Jim Zazzali PhD
Executive Director, Head of Health Policy and Systems Research, and Modeling
Genentech