I am a health economist and an Associate 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. I co-founded the Medicaid Data Learning Network, a national collaborative of over 400 researchers dedicated to developing best practices for working with federal Medicaid claims data. I also co-direct the Medicaid Atlas Project, which is creating a public data tool to track variation in Medicaid spending and utilization, as well as the Medicaid Insights Colloquium, a virtual seminar series connecting researchers and policymakers.
My research has appeared in a number of academic journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Health Affairs. It has been featured by Bloomberg, CNBC, Politico, The Washington Post, and other news outlets. I have received grant support from government and non-profit funders, including Arnold Ventures, The Commonwealth Fund, Milbank Memorial Fund, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and United Hospital Fund.
I primarily teach in the executive M.B.A./M.S. in Healthcare Leadership program offered jointly by Cornell's Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. I also teach and advise students in Weill Cornell's M.S. in Health Policy and Economics program and in the M.D. program.
I received my Ph.D. in health policy and economics from Yale University, during which I was also a pre-doctoral fellow in aging and health economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research. For work stemming from my dissertation, I received the Annual Student Prize from the International Health Economics Association. Before coming to Yale, I completed a master's degree and a research fellowship at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice. I received my undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College.
For more on my path to health economics and Medicaid research, see this profile in the Weill Cornell Medicine newsroom.