I am a health economist and an assistant professor in the Division of Health Policy and Economics of the Department of Population Health Sciences at the Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University. I direct the Medicaid Policy Impact Initiative at Cornell and am an Associate Director of the Cornell Health Policy Center and the Cornell Center for Health Equity.

I study Medicaid and the health care safety net in the United States. Through my research, I aim to identify policy levers to address racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in health and health care.

Recent Highlights:

• Sarah Gordon and I have received a grant from Arnold Ventures to launch the Medicaid Atlas Project, a public data platform that will track variation in Medicaid utilization and spending across states, plans, and populations.
• We have new work out in JAMA Health Forum showing that Medicaid may play a protective role in ensuring pharmacy availability.
• Yasin Civelek and I have received funding from the National Institute for Health Care Management to study how access to health insurance in adulthood affects later-life health care spending.
• We are excited to launch the T-MSIS Analytic Files (TAF) Analysis Reporting Checklist, which is designed to guide reporting of research using the TAF, the new generation Medicaid claims data. For more, see our publication in JAMA Health Forum or go to tafchecklist.org.

Contact: Email, Bluesky, LinkedIn, X

Links: Cornell Profile, Github, Google Scholar, Pubmed