Concentration in Health and Public Policy
Recent Graduates and Dissertation Titles
| Graduate Name | Dissertation Title |
|---|---|
| Shani Buggs (2018) | Efforts to reduce gun violence in Baltimore: Evaluating drug law enforcement, focused deterrence, and cure violence |
| Sachini Bandara (2018) | Policy evaluation and strategic communication research to improve the lives of individuals with severe mental illness and criminal justice involvement |
| Michelle Wong (2017) | Obesity disparities: The role of neighborhoods, family and healthcare |
| Krycia Cowling (2017) | The impacts of global trade and investment liberalization on non-commercial disease risk factors |
| Tara Sell (2016) | Health policy responses and news media coverage of an emerging outbreak: The case of ebola |
| Molly Simmons (2016) | The integrated disability evaluation system: The political life cycle of health policy from concept to evaluation |
| Julia Wolfson (2016) | What's cooking? A mixed methods analysis of cooking perceptions, practices and the implication for food policy |
| Jessica Young (2015) | The development and implementation of state offices of minority health |
| Nicole Errett (2014) | Friend or foe? The relationship of interlocal collaboration and emergency preparedness |
| Marian Jarlenski (2014) | The role of policy in promoting women's health during pregnancy and postpartum |
| Mike Kim (2013) | The impact of prescription drug monitoring programs on adolescents and young adult poisoning deaths |
| David Swedler (2013) | A mixed methods examination of distracted driving in commercial truck drivers |
| Greg Tung (2013) | Political institutional factors and public health policy: An examination of the associations between direct democracy and preemption on state-level tobacco control and injury prevention policies |
Below is a list of positions from Alumni of the PhD Concentration in Health and Public Policy.
- Postdoctoral Fellow: Violence Prevention Research Program, University of California, Davis
- Postdoctoral Fellow: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Research Fellow in Health Services Research: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- Researcher: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
- Assistant Professor: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Department of Environmental Health and Engineering
- Policy Researcher: RAND Corporation
- Assistant Professor: American University's Department of Health Studies
- Assistant Professor: University of Michigan School of Public Health
- Lecturer: University of Washington School of Public Health's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Services
- Assistant Professor: University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health
- Director and Head of Center of Data Excellence: AArete
- Assistant Research Scientist: Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
- Assistant Professor: University of Colorado School of Public Health