Concentration in Health Economics and Policy
Recent Graduates and Dissertation Titles
| Graduate Name | Dissertation Title |
|---|---|
| Trevor Ellison (2015) | Economic evaluation in kidney transplantation |
| Eric Roberts (2015) | Essays on markets for primary care services for medicaid adults |
| Susan Yeh (2015) | Essays on the federal financing of the Medicaid and Medicare programs |
| Christine Buttorff (2014) | The impact of a value-based insurance design on those with multiple chronic conditions |
| Fred Selck (2013) | Essays on physician behavior |
| Chuck Shih (2013) | Preferences for EQ-5D health states and experienced health states in the US general population: The impact of framing and current health on values |
| Erin Trish (2013) | Essays on competition in US private health insurance markets |
| Megan O’Brien (2009) | Impact of prescription drug insurance on health care utilization and expenditures among elderly medicare beneficiaries with depression |
| Bianca Frogner (2008) | Long-run modeling of health care expenditure growth in industrialized countries |
| Gretchen Jacobson (2008) | The return on investing additional tax dollars into the National Institutes of Health: A case study examining whether NIH funding correlates with increased phase I testing of new pharmaceuticals |
| Omar Galarraga (2007) | The effect of antidepressants on the labor market outcomes of HIV-infected persons using highly active antiretroviral therapy in the United States: 1996-2004 |
Below is a list of positions from Alumni of the PhD Concentration in Health Economics and Policy.
- Cardiothoracic Fellow: Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh Department of Health Policy and Management
- Principal Analyst: Congressional Budget Office Division of Health, Retirement, and Long-Term Analysis
- Associate Policy Research: RAND Corporation
- Senior Economist: Bates White
- Associate Director of Healthcare Reform & Public Policy: Biogen
- Assistant Research Professor: University of Southern California Price School of Public Policy
- Executive Director: Merck
- Deputy Director of Primary Care Innovation Lab (PCI-Lab): University of Washington
- Associate Director for Medicare Policy: Kaiser Family Foundation
- Associate Professor: Brown University School of Public Health