Categories: Activities, Mentoring


ASHEcon Virtual Mentoring

The ASHEcon Virtual Mentoring Program provides students and early career researchers and opportunity to engage with seasoned health economists. Mentors/mentee will be matched one-on-one. If you are an ASHEcon student or early career researcher member who is interested in receiving mentoring, you will need to review the list of mentors below and complete the mentee application. You will be asked to provide your top three choices for mentors as well as program areas of interest.  In the event that one of your top three choices is not available, matching will be based on program area.  Please note that you must be a current ASHEcon member to participate if you are unsure of your membership status, please check here to confirm.

Program Areas

Competition in Health Care Markets and Insurer and Hospital Behaviors      Consumer Decision Making in Health Care

Demand for and Effect of Health Insurance       Econometrics       Health Behavior       Health Care Provider Organizations

Health Insurance      Health Reform       Health Systems and Health Care Financing      Health, Labor Markets, and the Economy

Industrial Organization      Long Term Care, Aging & Demography      Maternal and Child Health       Mental Health      Minority Health and Health Disparities

Obesity and Nutritional Outcomes      Physician/Nurse Reimbursement, Training and Behavior      Prescription Drugs

Socioeconomic Status and Health      Theory, Econometric Advances, and Cost Advances      Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Substances

Mentors by Program Area

Competition in Health Care Markets and Insurer and Hospital Behaviors

 

Name: Cory Capps

Title: Partner

Organization: Bates White Economic Consulting

Works in: Non-academic private sector

CV or Website: https://www.bateswhite.com/people-Cory-Capps.html

Primary Area if Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets and Insurer and Hospital Behaviors

Additional Areas of Expertise: Health Systems & Health Care Financing

Keywords: Antitrust

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Colleen Carey

Title: Assistant Professor

Organization: Cornell University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://sites.google.com/site/colleenmariecarey/

Primary Area if Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets and Insurer and Hospital Behaviors

Additional Areas of Expertise: Prescription Drugs, “Health, Labor Markets, & the Economy”, “Physician/Nurse Reimbursement, Training and Behavior”

Keywords: Medicare, prescription drugs, managed competition, risk adjustment

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Chirantan Chatterjee

Title: Associate Professor in Economics

Organization: Hoover Institution, Stanford & IIM Ahmedabad

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: http://www.chirantanchatterjee.com

Primary Area if Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets and Insurer and Hospital Behaviors

Additional Areas of Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets & Insurer & Hospital Behaviors, Prescription Drugs, International Health and Developing Countries, Consumer Decision Making in Health Care

Keywords: drug pricing, consumer welfare, pharmaceutical economics

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: Mark Duggan

Title: Professor

Organization: Stanford University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://mgduggan.people.stanford.edu/

Primary Area if Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets and Insurer and Hospital Behaviors

Additional Areas of Expertise: “Health, Labor Markets, & the Economy”, Health Reform, Prescription Drugs, Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance, Health Systems & Health Care Financing

Keywords: ACA, drug pricing, Medicare, Medicaid

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Seth Freedman

Title: Associate Professor

Organization: Indiana University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://www.sethmfreedman.com/research

Primary Area if Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets and Insurer and Hospital Behaviors

Additional Areas of Expertise: Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance, “Physician/Nurse Reimbursement, Training and Behavior”

Keywords: provider decision making, technology adoption, insurance expansions

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: Martin Gaynor

Title: Professor

Organization: Carnegie Mellon University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://www.heinz.cmu.edu/faculty-research/profiles/gaynor-martins

Primary Area if Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets and Insurer and Hospital Behaviors

Additional Areas of Expertise: “Physician/Nurse Reimbursement, Training and Behavior”

Keywords: Competition, markets, insurance, antitrust, regulation, hospitals, physicians, incentives, contracts

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: Matthew Grennan

Title: Assistant Professor

Organization: Wharton, U of Pennsylvania

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://hcmg.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/grennan/

Primary Area if Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets and Insurer and Hospital Behaviors

Additional Areas of Expertise: Prescription Drugs

Keywords: Medical Devices, FDA, Pricing, Innovation, Physician-Industry Relationships

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: Martin Hackmann

Title: Assistant Professor of Economics

Organization: UCLA

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://martinhackmann.wordpress.com/

Primary Area if Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets and Insurer and Hospital Behaviors

Additional Areas of Expertise: “Long Term Care, Aging & Demography”

Keywords: Long term care

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Thomas Koch

Title: Economist

Organization: FTC

Works in: Government

CV or Website: https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/biographies/thomas-g-koch

Primary Area if Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets and Insurer and Hospital Behaviors

Additional Areas of Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets & Insurer & Hospital Behaviors, Health Reform, Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance, Health Systems & Health Care Financing, “Physician/Nurse Reimbursement, Training and Behavior”

Keywords: Industrial organization, vertical integration

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Ian McCarthy

Title: Associate Professor

Organization: Emory University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: http://ianmccarthyecon.com

Primary Area if Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets and Insurer and Hospital Behaviors

Additional Areas of Expertise: Consumer Decision Making in Health Care

Keywords: Hospital pricing, hospital competition, physician learning, Medicare Advantage, information disclosure

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Ryan McDevitt

Title: Associate Professor

Organization: Duke University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty/ryan-mcdevitt

Primary Area if Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets and Insurer and Hospital Behaviors

Additional Areas of Expertise: Health Reform

Keywords: industrial organization, dialysis

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Thomas McGuire

Title: Professor

Organization: Harvard Medical School

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: http://www.hcp.med.harvard.edu/people/hcp_core_faculty/thomas_mcguire

Primary Area if Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets and Insurer and Hospital Behaviors

Additional Areas of Expertise: “Theory, Econometric Advances, and Cost Advances”, Prescription Drugs, Mental Health, Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance, Health Systems & Health Care Financing, Minority Health and Health Disparities, “Physician/Nurse Reimbursement, Training and Beh

Keywords: health economics

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Daria Pelech

Title: Principal Analyst

Organization: Congressional Budget Office

Works in: Government

CV or Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daria-pelech-09aa1510/

Primary Area if Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets and Insurer and Hospital Behaviors

Additional Areas of Expertise: “Physician/Nurse Reimbursement, Training and Behavior”

Keywords: Medicare Advantage, provider prices, insurer-provider bargaining

Mentee Type: Ph.D. Students


Name: Ted Rosenbaum

Title: Dr

Organization: Federal Trade Commission

Works in: Government

CV or Website: http://www.tedrosenbaum.org

Primary Area if Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets and Insurer and Hospital Behaviors

Additional Areas of Expertise: Consumer Decision Making in Health Care

Keywords: Provider demand

Mentee Type: Ph.D. Students


Name: Richard Smith

Title: Associate Professor

Organization: University of South Florida

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZkTdI1DSc4vvF_JyGeaA6v-i1a3rlCfg/view?usp=sharing

Primary Area if Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets and Insurer and Hospital Behaviors

Additional Areas of Expertise: Health Systems & Health Care Financing

Keywords: Hospitals, Patient Safety, Quality Improvement

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Amanda Starc

Title: Associate Professor of Strategy

Organization: Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://sites.google.com/site/amandastarc/

Primary Area if Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets and Insurer and Hospital Behaviors

Additional Areas of Expertise: Prescription Drugs

Keywords: health care markets, imperfect competition, information

Mentee Type: Ph.D. Students


 Name: Ashley Swanson

Title: Assistant Professor

Organization: Columbia University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://www.ashley-terese-swanson.com/

Primary Area if Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets and Insurer and Hospital Behaviors

Additional Areas of Expertise: Prescription Drugs, Consumer Decision Making in Health Care, Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance, “Physician/Nurse Reimbursement, Training and Behavior”

Keywords: information, incentives, bargaining, agency

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Nathan Wilson

Title: Deputy Assistant Director

Organization: Federal Trade Commission

Works in: Government

CV or Website: https://sites.google.com/site/newilson/home

Primary Area if Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets and Insurer and Hospital Behaviors

Additional Areas of Expertise: Health Systems & Health Care Financing

Keywords: competition, vertical integration

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher

Consumer Decision Making in Health Care

 

Name: Jason Abaluck

Title: Associate Professor of Economics

Organization: Yale University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://faculty.som.yale.edu/jasonabaluck/

Primary Area if Expertise: Consumer Decision Making in Health Care

Additional Areas of Expertise: Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance, Competition in Health Care Markets & Insurer & Hospital Behaviors, Prescription Drugs

Keywords: Choice, Insurance, Attention, Value-Added

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: David Bradford

Title: Professor

Organization: University of Georgia

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://spia.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Vita-for-W-David-Bradford-Fall-2019-1.pdf

Primary Area if Expertise: Consumer Decision Making in Health Care

Additional Areas of Expertise: Prescription Drugs

Keywords: Cannabis and substance use policy, pharmaceutical policy, time and risk preferences

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: Kevin Callison

Title: Assistant Professor

Organization: Tulane University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://sph.tulane.edu/hpm/kevin-callison

Primary Area if Expertise: Consumer Decision Making in Health Care

Additional Areas of Expertise: Health Reform, “Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Substances”, Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance

Keywords: Health policy analysis

Mentee Type: Ph.D. Students


Name: Donna Gilleskie

Title: Professor and Chair

Organization: Department of Economics

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: http://gilleskie.web.unc.edu

Primary Area if Expertise: Consumer Decision Making in Health Care

Additional Areas of Expertise: “Health, Labor Markets, & the Economy”, Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance

Keywords: dynamic models; estimation of structural models of dynamic decisionmaking

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Jonathan Kolstad

Title: Associate Professor

Organization: UC Berkeley

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/jkolstad/CV_kolstad.pdf

Primary Area if Expertise: Consumer Decision Making in Health Care

Additional Areas of Expertise: Health Reform, Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance, Competition in Health Care Markets & Insurer & Hospital Behaviors

Keywords: insurance decision making, behavioral economics

Mentee Type: Early Career Researchers


Name: Thomas Mroz

Title: Professor

Organization: Georgia State Unversity

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://aysps.gsu.edu/profile/tom-mroz-2/

Primary Area if Expertise: Consumer Decision Making in Health Care

Additional Areas of Expertise: “Health, Labor Markets, & the Economy”, “Long Term Care, Aging & Demography”, “Theory, Econometric Advances, and Cost Advances”, Consumer Decision Making in Health Care, International Health and Developing Countries, Maternal & Child Health

Keywords: Program evaluation and consumer behaviors

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: Christopher Whaley

Title: Policy Researcher

Organization: RAND

Works in: Non-academic private sector

CV or Website: https://www.rand.org/about/people/w/whaley_christopher.html

Primary Area if Expertise: Consumer Decision Making in Health Care

Additional Areas of Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets & Insurer & Hospital Behaviors

Keywords: Insurance benefit design, price transparency

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: Ben Handel

Title: Associate Professor

Organization: Berkeley

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0cgo7092y1prok4/Handel_CV_Current.pdf?dl=0

Primary Area if Expertise: Consumer Decision Making in Health Care and IO / Health Care

Additional Areas of Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets & Insurer & Hospital Behaviors, Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance, Consumer Decision Making in Health Care, Health Reform

Keywords: Everything

Mentee Type: Early Career Researchers

Demand for and Effect of Health Insurance

Name: Tom Buchmueller

Title: Professor of Business Economics & Public Policy; Senior Associate Dean

Organization: Ross School of Business, U of Michigan

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://michiganross.umich.edu/faculty-research/faculty/thomas-buchmueller

Primary Area if Expertise: Demand for and Effect of Health Insurance

Additional Areas of Expertise: Health Reform, “Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Substances”, “Health, Labor Markets, & the Economy”

Keywords:

Mentee Type: Early Career Researchers


Name: Kate Bundorf

Title: Associate Professor of Medicine

Organization: Stanford University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://profiles.stanford.edu/mary-bundorf

Primary Area if Expertise: Demand for and Effect of Health Insurance

Additional Areas of Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets & Insurer & Hospital Behaviors, Consumer Decision Making in Health Care, Health Reform, Health Systems & Health Care Financing

Keywords: insurance, health care

Mentee Type: Early Career Researchers


 Name: Laura Dague

Title: Associate Professor

Organization: Texas A&M University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://sites.google.com/site/lauradague/home

Primary Area if Expertise: Demand for and Effect of Health Insurance

Additional Areas of Expertise: “Health, Labor Markets, & the Economy”, Health Reform

Keywords: Medicaid

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: Coleman Drake

Title: Assistant Professor

Organization: University of Pittsburgh

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://www.publichealth.pitt.edu/home/directory/coleman-drake

Primary Area if Expertise: Demand for and Effect of Health Insurance

Additional Areas of Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets & Insurer & Hospital Behaviors, Health Reform, “Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Substances”

Keywords: ACA, health insurance marketplaces, geographic access to care, substance use disorders

Mentee Type: Ph.D. Students


 Name: Deborah Freund

Title: University Professor and President Emerita

Organization: Claremont Graduate University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://www.cgu.edu/people/deborah-freund/

Primary Area if Expertise: Demand for and Effect of Health Insurance

Additional Areas of Expertise: Health Systems & Health Care Financing, Health Reform

Keywords: Medicaid, Medicaid Expansion, ACA

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: Jonathan Gruber

Title: Professor of Economics

Organization: MIT

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: http://economics.mit.edu/faculty/gruberj/index.htm

Primary Area if Expertise: Demand for and Effect of Health Insurance

Additional Areas of Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets & Insurer & Hospital Behaviors, Health Reform, “Health, Labor Markets, & the Economy”, “Long Term Care, Aging & Demography”, “Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Substances”, “Physician/Nurse Reimbursement, Training and Behavi

Keywords: ACA, insurance

Mentee Type: Early Career Researchers


Name: Ann Hofmann

Title: MetLife Associate Professor in Risk Management and Insurance

Organization: St. Johns University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://sites.google.com/view/annettehofmann/home

Primary Area if Expertise: Demand for and Effect of Health Insurance

Additional Areas of Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets & Insurer & Hospital Behaviors, “Health, Labor Markets, & the Economy”, “Theory, Econometric Advances, and Cost Advances”, Consumer Decision Making in Health Care

Keywords: health insurance

Mentee Type: Ph.D. Students


Name: Timothy Layton

Title: 30th Anniversary Associate Professor of Healthcare Policy

Organization: Harvard Medical School

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://scholar.harvard.edu/timothylayton/home

Primary Area if Expertise: Demand for and Effect of Health Insurance

Additional Areas of Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets & Insurer & Hospital Behaviors

Keywords: health insurance, adverse selection, Medicaid

Mentee Type: Ph.D. Students


Name: Robert Lieberthal

Title: Principal, Health Economics and Group Lead

Organization: The MITRE Corporation

Works in: Non-academic private sector

CV or Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roblieberthal

Primary Area if Expertise: Demand for and Effect of Health Insurance

Additional Areas of Expertise: Health Systems & Health Care Financing

Keywords: open source, social insurance, price transparency, behavioral economics

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: Timothy McBride

Title: Professor

Organization: Washington University in St. Louis

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://brownschool.wustl.edu/Faculty-and-Research/Pages/Timothy-McBride.aspx

Primary Area if Expertise: Demand for and Effect of Health Insurance

Additional Areas of Expertise: Health Reform

Keywords: Insurance, Medicare, Medicaid

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Daniel Polsky

Title: Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

Organization: Johns Hopkins University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://research.jhu.edu/members/daniel-polsky/

Primary Area if Expertise: Demand for and Effect of Health Insurance

Additional Areas of Expertise: Health Reform, “Physician/Nurse Reimbursement, Training and Behavior”, Health Systems & Health Care Financing

Keywords: networks

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: Dan Sacks

Title: Assistant Professor

Organization: Indiana University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: http://danielwsacks.com

Primary Area if Expertise: Demand for and Effect of Health Insurance

Additional Areas of Expertise: Health Reform, Consumer Decision Making in Health Care, Prescription Drugs

Keywords: ACA

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: Neeraj Sood

Title: Professor

Organization: University of Southern California

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://priceschool.usc.edu/people/neeraj-sood/

Primary Area if Expertise: Demand for and Effect of Health Insurance

Additional Areas of Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets & Insurer & Hospital Behaviors, Consumer Decision Making in Health Care, Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance, Health Reform, Health Systems & Health Care Financing, “Health, Labor Markets, & the Economy”, Internation

Keywords: drug pricing, health insurance, Medicare, infectious disease

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Laura Wherry

Title: Assistant Professor

Organization: NYU

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: http://laurawherry.com

Primary Area if Expertise: Demand for and Effect of Health Insurance

Additional Areas of Expertise: Maternal & Child Health, Health Reform

Keywords: Medicaid, ACA

Mentee Type: Ph.D. Students

Econometrics

 

Name: Edward Norton

Title: Professor

Organization: University of Michigan

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://sph.umich.edu/faculty-profiles/norton-edward.html

Primary Area if Expertise: Econometrics

Additional Areas of Expertise: “Long Term Care, Aging & Demography”

Keywords: P4P

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher

Health Behavior

Name: Michael Darden

Title: Associate Professor

Organization: Johns Hopkins

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: http://medarden.com

Primary Area if Expertise: Health Behavior

Additional Areas of Expertise: Mental Health, “Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Substances”, “Theory, Econometric Advances, and Cost Advances”

Keywords: Smoking, structural econometrics.

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher

Health Care Provider Organizations – Integration, Competition, Payment, Quality

Name: Laurence Baker

Title: Professor

Organization: Stanford University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://profiles.stanford.edu/laurence-baker

Primary Area if Expertise: health care provider organizations – integration, competition, payment, quality

Additional Areas of Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets & Insurer & Hospital Behaviors, Health Systems & Health Care Financing, “Physician/Nurse Reimbursement, Training and Behavior”, Consumer Decision Making in Health Care

Keywords: physician groups, health systems, integration, competition, physician payment, hospital payment, technology adoption

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher

Health Insurance

Name: Katherine Baicker

Title: Dean, Professor

Organization: University of Chicago Harris School

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://harris.uchicago.edu/directory/katherine-baicker

Primary Area if Expertise: Health economics; health insurance

Additional Areas of Expertise: Health Reform, Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance

Keywords: Medicaid, Medicare, insurance

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Sally Stearns

Title: Professor

Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://sph.unc.edu/adv_profile/sally-clark-stearns-phd/

Primary Area if Expertise: Health Insurance, Medicare

Additional Areas of Expertise: “Long Term Care, Aging & Demography”

Keywords: Economic evaluation

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher

Health Reform

Name: Andrew Friedson

Title: Associate Professor

Organization: University of Colorado Denver

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://sites.google.com/view/andrewfriedson/

Primary Area if Expertise: Health Reform

Additional Areas of Expertise: Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance, Consumer Decision Making in Health Care, “Physician/Nurse Reimbursement, Training and Behavior”, “Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Substances”, Competition in Health Care Markets & Insurer & Hospital Behaviors

Keywords: ACA, coronavirus, emergency care, physician payment, medical malpractice, public policy

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Emily Gee

Title: Health Economist

Organization: Center for American Progress

Works in: non-profit

CV or Website: https://www.americanprogress.org/person/gee-emily/

Primary Area if Expertise: Health Reform

Additional Areas of Expertise: Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance, Competition in Health Care Markets & Insurer & Hospital Behaviors

Keywords: ACA, policy, politics, DC, government, think tank, coverage, costs, affordablity

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: Sherry Glied

Title: Dean and Professor of Public Service

Organization: NYU Wagner School of Public Service

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://wagner.nyu.edu/community/faculty/sherry-glied

Primary Area if Expertise: Health Reform

Additional Areas of Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets & Insurer & Hospital Behaviors, Health Reform, “Health, Labor Markets, & the Economy”, Mental Health, Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance, Health Systems & Health Care Financing, Socioeconomic Status and Health

Keywords: ACA, insurance, mental health

Mentee Type: Early Career Researchers

Health Systems and Health Care Financing

Name: Benedic Ippolito

Title: Resident Scholar

Organization: American Enterprise Institute

Works in: Think Tank

CV or Website: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/CV-2.pdf

Primary Area if Expertise: Health Systems and Health Care Financing

Additional Areas of Expertise: Prescription Drugs, Health Reform

Keywords: Public policy, Health care prices, Drug pricing, Health care financing, Consumer finance, Medical debt

Mentee Type: Ph.D. Students


 Name: Mireille JACOBSON

Title: Associate Professor

Organization: USC

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://gero.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/jacobsoncv-2019.pdf

Primary Area if Expertise: Health Systems and Health Care Financing

Additional Areas of Expertise: “Physician/Nurse Reimbursement, Training and Behavior”, “Long Term Care, Aging & Demography”, Health Systems & Health Care Financing

Keywords: Medicare reimbursement policy

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Jim Marton

Title: Professor

Organization: Georgia State University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://aysps.gsu.edu/profile/james-marton/

Primary Area if Expertise: Health Systems and Health Care Financing

Additional Areas of Expertise: Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance

Keywords: ACA, Medicaid, CHIP, managed care

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Maurice Moffett

Title: Senior Economist

Organization: Advanta Government Services

Works in: Non-academic private sector

CV or Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmoffett/

Primary Area if Expertise: Health Systems and Health Care Financing

Additional Areas of Expertise: Prescription Drugs, Health Reform, “Health, Labor Markets, & the Economy”, Competition in Health Care Markets & Insurer & Hospital Behaviors, Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance, “Physician/Nurse Reimbursement, Training and Behavior”, Socioeconomic St

Keywords: Health Services Research, Econometrics, Outcomes Research

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Aditi Sen

Title: Assistant Professor

Organization: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://www.jhsph.edu/faculty/directory/profile/3389/aditi-p-sen

Primary Area if Expertise: Health Systems and Health Care Financing

Additional Areas of Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets & Insurer & Hospital Behaviors, “Physician/Nurse Reimbursement, Training and Behavior”, Health Reform

Keywords: Payment policy, health care prices, competition in health care markets

Mentee Type: Ph.D. Students


 Name: Adam Skelton

Title: Lead, CDC Steven M. Teutsch Prevention Effectiveness Fellowship

Organization: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Works in: Government

CV or Website: https://www.ashecon.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Adam_Skelton_Resume-v6.pdf

Primary Area if Expertise: Health Systems and Health Care Financing

Additional Areas of Expertise: Socioeconomic Status and Health

Keywords: Public Health

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: Frank Sloan

Title: J.A. McMahon Prof. of Health Policy and Management and Prof. of Economics Emeritus

Organization: Duke University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://econ.duke.edu/people/frank-sloan

Primary Area if Expertise: Health Systems and Health Care Financing

Additional Areas of Expertise: “Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Substances”

Keywords: hospital markets, risk perceptions, alcohol and tobacco use

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Justin Trogdon

Title: Professor of Health Policy and Management

Organization: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://sph.unc.edu/adv_profile/justin-trogdon-phd/

Primary Area if Expertise: Health Systems and Health Care Financing

Additional Areas of Expertise: Consumer Decision Making in Health Care

Keywords: chronic disease, network analysis

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Christine Yee

Title: Assistant Professor / Health Economist

Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore County / Boston University / PEPReC

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://economics.umbc.edu/files/2016/12/CV_ChristineYee_2016.10.07.pdf

Primary Area if Expertise: Health Systems and Health Care Financing

Additional Areas of Expertise: “Health, Labor Markets, & the Economy”, “Physician/Nurse Reimbursement, Training and Behavior”, Health Systems & Health Care Financing, Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance

Keywords: Veterans, VHA, physician ownership, ACA

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher

Health, Labor Markets, & the Economy

Name: Meltem Daysal

Title: Associate Professor

Organization: University of Southern Denmark

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: http://www.meltemdaysal.com/

Primary Area if Expertise: Health, Labor Markets, and the Economy

Additional Areas of Expertise: Maternal & Child Health

Keywords: Medical care, birth, children, schooling, labor market outcomes, spillovers, mortality

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: OSEA Giuntella

Title: Assistant Professor of Economics

Organization: University of Pittsburgh

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://www.oseagiuntella.com/cv

Primary Area if Expertise: Health, Labor Markets, and the Economy

Additional Areas of Expertise: Maternal & Child Health, Socioeconomic Status and Health

Keywords: risky behaviors, child outcomes, fertility, sleep deprivation, obesity

Mentee Type: Ph.D. Students


Name: Matt Harris

Title: Assoc. Prof.

Organization: University of Tennessee

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://scholar.google.no/citations?user=UikPRv8AAAAJ&hl=en

Primary Area if Expertise: Health, Labor Markets, and the Economy

Additional Areas of Expertise: “Health, Labor Markets, & the Economy”

Keywords: opioids, obesity, structural, dynamic

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: Catherine Maclean

Title: Associate Professor

Organization: Temple University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://liberalarts.temple.edu/academics/faculty/maclean-catherine

Primary Area if Expertise: Health, Labor Markets, and the Economy

Additional Areas of Expertise: Mental Health, “Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Substances”, Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance

Keywords: Mental health, substance use, tobacco use

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: Melinda Pitts

Title: Director, Center for Human Capital Studies

Organization: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Works in: Federal Reserve System

CV or Website: https://www.frbatlanta.org/research/economists/pitts-melinda

Primary Area if Expertise: Health, Labor Markets, and the Economy

Additional Areas of Expertise: Socioeconomic Status and Health

Keywords: Risky behavior, financial health

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: Christopher Ruhm

Title: Professor of Public Policy and Economics

Organization: University of Virginia

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://sites.google.com/view/christopher-ruhm/

Primary Area if Expertise: Health, Labor Markets, and the Economy

Additional Areas of Expertise: Socioeconomic Status and Health

Keywords: Economic Conditions, Health Behaviors, Drug Epidemic, Mortality Trends

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: Kosali Simon

Title: Professor

Organization: Indiana University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://oneill.indiana.edu/faculty-research/directory/profiles/faculty/full-time/simon-kosali.html

Primary Area if Expertise: Health, Labor Markets, and the Economy

Additional Areas of Expertise: Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance

Keywords: COVID-19

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: Coady Wing

Title: Associate Professor

Organization: Indiana University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://oneill.indiana.edu/faculty-research/directory/profiles/faculty/full-time/wing-coady.html

Primary Area if Expertise: Health, Labor Markets, and the Economy

Additional Areas of Expertise: “Health, Labor Markets, & the Economy”, Obesity & Nutritional Outcomes, “Theory, Econometric Advances, and Cost Advances”, Health Reform

Keywords: Regulation, Quasi-experiments

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher

Industrial Organization

Name: Elena Prager

Title: Associate Professor (untenured)

Organization: Northwestern University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://sites.google.com/view/eprager/cv

Primary Area if Expertise: Industrial organization

Additional Areas of Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets & Insurer & Hospital Behaviors

Keywords: bargaining, networks, labor monopsony

Mentee Type: Ph.D. Students

Long Term Care, Aging & Demography

Name: Norma Coe

Title: Associate Professor

Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://medicalethicshealthpolicy.med.upenn.edu/faculty-all/norma-b-coe8

Primary Area if Expertise: Long Term Care, Aging & Demography

Additional Areas of Expertise: Health Reform

Keywords: nursing homes, aging, retirement

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Melissa McInerney

Title: Associate Professor

Organization: Tufts University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://sites.google.com/view/melissapmcinerney/home

Primary Area if Expertise: Long Term Care, Aging & Demography

Additional Areas of Expertise: Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance, Health Reform

Keywords: Medicaid, older adults, dual enrollees, program participation, ACA

Mentee Type: Early Career Researchers


Name: Lauren Nicholas

Title: Associate Professor

Organization: Johns Hopkins University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/roger-c-lipitz-center-for-integrated-health-care/Bios/lhn_cv_03_20.pdf

Primary Area if Expertise: Long Term Care, Aging & Demography

Additional Areas of Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets & Insurer & Hospital Behaviors, “Health, Labor Markets, & the Economy”, Consumer Decision Making in Health Care, Health Systems & Health Care Financing

Keywords: Medicare, dementia, end-of-life

Mentee Type: Early Career Researchers


 Name: Marcelo Perraillon

Title: Assistant Professor

Organization: University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://perraillon.com/

Primary Area if Expertise: Long Term Care, Aging & Demography

Additional Areas of Expertise: Health Reform

Keywords: ACA, quality,

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Julian Reif

Title: Assistant Professor

Organization: University of Illinois

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: http://julianreif.com/cv/Reif_cv.pdf

Primary Area if Expertise: Long Term Care, Aging & Demography

Additional Areas of Expertise: Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance, “Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Substances”, “Theory, Econometric Advances, and Cost Advances”

Keywords: Medicare Part D, workplace wellness, medical innovation, value of life, pollution

Mentee Type: Early Career Researchers


Name: Courtney Van Houtven

Title: Professor

Organization: Duke University

Works in: Government

CV or Website: https://scholars.duke.edu/person/courtney.vanhoutven

Primary Area if Expertise: Long Term Care, Aging & Demography

Additional Areas of Expertise: Health Systems & Health Care Financing, “Health, Labor Markets, & the Economy”

Keywords: informal care, home health, long-term care insurance, economics of aging

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher

Maternal and Child Health 

Name: Marianne Bitler

Title: Professor

Organization: UC Davis, dept. of economics

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://sites.google.com/site/mbitler

Primary Area if Expertise: Maternal and Child Health

Additional Areas of Expertise: “Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Substances”, Obesity & Nutritional Outcomes

Keywords: mandates, fertility, smoking bans, food assistance, SNAP, WIC, TANF

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Lindsey Bullinger

Title: Assistant Professor

Organization: Georgia Tech

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: http://www.lindseybullinger.com

Primary Area if Expertise: Maternal and Child Health

Additional Areas of Expertise: Socioeconomic Status and Health

Keywords: Child abuse and neglect, reproductive health, opioids,

Mentee Type: Ph.D. Students


Name: Darren Grant

Title: Associate Prof. of Economics

Organization: Sam Houston State University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: http://www.shsu.edu/dpg006

Primary Area if Expertise: Maternal and Child Health

Additional Areas of Expertise: “Health, Labor Markets, & the Economy”, “Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Substances”

Keywords: traffic safety; cesarean section

Mentee Type: Early Career Researchers


 Name: Melanie Guldi

Title: Associate Professor (Economics)

Organization: University of Central Florida

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: http://www.melanieguldi.com/

Primary Area if Expertise: Maternal and Child Health

Additional Areas of Expertise: Obesity & Nutritional Outcomes, Socioeconomic Status and Health

Keywords: fertility, infant health, child health, maternal health, health behaviors, obesity, socioeconomic status

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Genevieve Kenney

Title: Senior Fellow and Co Director

Organization: The Urban Institute

Works in: non profit research organization

CV or Website: https://www.urban.org/

Primary Area if Expertise: Maternal and Child Health

Additional Areas of Expertise: Health Reform, Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance, Minority Health and Health Disparities, Socioeconomic Status and Health

Keywords: Medicaid

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: Sara Markowitz

Title: Professor

Organization: Emory University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://saramarkowitz.netlify.app/

Primary Area if Expertise: Maternal and Child Health

Additional Areas of Expertise: “Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Substances”

Keywords: Nurse labor, scope of practice, maternal health, child health

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher

Mental Health

Name: Marisa Domino

Title: Professor

Organization: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://sph.unc.edu/adv_profile/marisa-domino-phd/

Primary Area if Expertise: Mental Health

Additional Areas of Expertise: Health Reform, Prescription Drugs, Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance

Keywords: Medicaid

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: Ellen Meara

Title: Professor of Health Economics and Policy

Organization: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/ellen-meara/

Primary Area if Expertise: Mental Health

Additional Areas of Expertise: Health Systems & Health Care Financing, Socioeconomic Status and Health, “Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Substances”, “Health, Labor Markets, & the Economy”

Keywords: public insurance, public policies, opioids, regulations

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Sebastian Tello-Trillo

Title: Assistant Professor

Organization: University of Virginia

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: http://sebastiantellotrillo.com

Primary Area if Expertise: Mental Health

Additional Areas of Expertise: Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance

Keywords: Medicaid, Meantal Health, HIV

Mentee Type: Ph.D. Students

Minority Health and Health Disparities

Name: Kritee Gujral

Title: Health Economist

Organization: Department of Veterans Affairs

Works in: Government

CV or Website: http://www.kriteegujral.com

Primary Area if Expertise: Minority Health and Health Disparities

Additional Areas of Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets & Insurer & Hospital Behaviors, Health Reform, Socioeconomic Status and Health

Keywords: hospital markets, rural health, telehealth, mental health

Mentee Type: Ph.D. Students


 Name: Brigham Walker

Title: Research Assistant Professor

Organization: Tulane University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://www.brigwalker.com/

Primary Area if Expertise: Minority Health and Health Disparities

Additional Areas of Expertise: Health Reform, Socioeconomic Status and Health, “Physician/Nurse Reimbursement, Training and Behavior”

Keywords: equity, reimbursement, field experiments

Mentee Type: Ph.D. Students

Obesity and Nutritional Outcomes

Name: David Frisvold

Title: Associate Professor

Organization: University of Iowa

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://www.biz.uiowa.edu/frisvold/

Primary Area if Expertise: Obesity and Nutritional Outcomes

Additional Areas of Expertise: Socioeconomic Status and Health

Keywords: obesity, food assistance programs, menu labeling, taxes

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher

Physician/Nurse Reimbursement, Training and Behavior

Name: Michael Richards

Title: Associate Professor

Organization: Baylor University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: http://michaelrichards.webstarts.com/

Primary Area if Expertise: Physician/Nurse Reimbursement, Training and Behavior

Additional Areas of Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets & Insurer & Hospital Behaviors

Keywords: Medicare, Medicaid, provider regulation, provider reimbursement, provider integration

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: Joanne Spetz

Title: Professor

Organization: Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, UCSF

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://profiles.ucsf.edu/joanne.spetz

Primary Area if Expertise: Physician/Nurse Reimbursement, Training and Behavior

Additional Areas of Expertise: “Long Term Care, Aging & Demography”, Maternal & Child Health, “Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Substances”

Keywords: health workforce, nursing workforce, long-term care, opioid treatment, hospital quality

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher

Prescription Drugs

Name: Christopher Adams

Title: Principal Analyst

Organization: US Congressional Budget Office

Works in: Government

CV or Website: https://sites.google.com/site/christopherpadams/

Primary Area if Expertise: Prescription Drugs

Additional Areas of Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets & Insurer & Hospital Behaviors, “Theory, Econometric Advances, and Cost Advances”

Keywords: drug development

Mentee Type: Early Career Researchers


Name: Kathleen Miller

Title: Senior Economist

Organization: Food and Drug Administration

Works in: Government

CV or Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathleen-l-miller-ph-d-87ba0b51/

Primary Area if Expertise: Prescription Drugs

Additional Areas of Expertise: Prescription Drugs

Keywords: orphan drug; rare disease; FDA; regulation; pharmaceutical innovation; drug safety; generic drug; biosimilar; expedited programs; breakthrough therapy; precision medicine

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Cheryl Neslusan

Title: Director, Market Access and Scientific Strategy

Organization: Janssen, part of Johnson & Johnson

Works in: Non-academic private sector

CV or Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cheryl_Neslusan

Primary Area if Expertise: Prescription Drugs

Additional Areas of Expertise: Health Reform, Health Systems & Health Care Financing, Mental Health

Keywords: cost-effectiveness, drug pricing, insurance design, value frameworks for pharmaceuticals, global pharma market

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: David Ridley

Title: Professor of the Practice

Organization: Duke University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/~dbr1/

Primary Area if Expertise: Prescription Drugs

Additional Areas of Expertise: Prescription Drugs

Keywords: Drug pricing, innovation

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: Andreas Schick

Title: Director of Economics

Organization: Food and Drug Administration

Works in: Government

CV or Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreas-schick-b7083616/

Primary Area if Expertise: Prescription Drugs

Additional Areas of Expertise: Competition in Health Care Markets & Insurer & Hospital Behaviors, Health Reform

Keywords: Drug Pricing; Drug Shortages, COVID, Drug Development, Drug Manufacturing

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: Mary Schroeder

Title: Associate Professor

Organization: University of Iowa

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://bit.ly/2NrET9N

Primary Area if Expertise: Prescription Drugs

Additional Areas of Expertise: Consumer Decision Making in Health Care

Keywords: cancer outcomes, comparative effectiveness research, health services research

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher

Socioeconomic Status and Health

Name: Janet Currie 

Title: Professor

Organization: Princeton

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://scholar.princeton.edu/jcurrie

Primary Area if Expertise: Socioeconomic Status and Health

Additional Areas of Expertise: Health Reform, Maternal & Child Health, Mental Health, Minority Health and Health Disparities
Physician/Nurse Reimbursement, Training and Behavior and Prescription Drugs

Keywords: Child health, Medicaid, mental health

Mentee Type: Early Career Researcher


Name: Jonathan Skinner

Title: James O. Freedman Professor, Department of Economics

Organization: Dartmouth

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://jonskinner.org

Primary Area if Expertise: Productivity and Efficiency in Health Care

Additional Areas of Expertise: Socioeconomic Status and Health

Keywords: Geographic Variation

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Marcella Alsan

Title: Professor of Public Policy

Organization: HKS

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/marcella-alsan

Primary Area if Expertise: Socioeconomic Status and Health

Additional Areas of Expertise: Socioeconomic Status and Health, Minority Health and Health Disparities, “Physician/Nurse Reimbursement, Training and Behavior”, Consumer Decision Making in Health Care

Keywords: diversity workforce

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Alex Hollingsworth

Title: Assistant Professor

Organization: Indiana University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://alexjhollingsworth.com

Primary Area if Expertise: Socioeconomic Status and Health

Additional Areas of Expertise: “Health, Labor Markets, & the Economy”, Prescription Drugs, “Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Substances”

Keywords: Environmental economics, substance abuse, access to care, pollution

Mentee Type: Ph.D. Students


Name: Adriana Lleras-Muney

Title: Professor

Organization: UCLA

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://adriana-llerasmuney.squarespace.com/

Primary Area if Expertise: Socioeconomic Status and Health

Additional Areas of Expertise: International Health and Developing Countries

Keywords: public policy

Mentee Type: Early Career Researchers


 Name: David Molitor

Title: Assistant Professor of Finance

Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: http://www.davidmolitor.com/s/cv_molitor.pdf

Primary Area if Expertise: Socioeconomic Status and Health

Additional Areas of Expertise: “Health, Labor Markets, & the Economy”

Keywords: place-based determinants of health, environmental economics

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Heather Royer

Title: Associate Professor of Economics

Organization: UCSB

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://sites.google.com/site/heathernroyer/

Primary Area if Expertise: Socioeconomic Status and Health

Additional Areas of Expertise: Maternal & Child Health

Keywords: incentives, field experiments, infant health

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Myra Yazbeck

Title: Associate Professor

Organization: University of Ottawa

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://sites.google.com/site/myrayazbeck/home

Primary Area if Expertise: Socioeconomic Status and Health

Additional Areas of Expertise: “Health, Labor Markets, & the Economy”, Mental Health, Minority Health and Health Disparities

Keywords: Social interactions, Spillovers, Health Inequalities

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher

Theory, Econometric Advances, and Cost Advances

Name: John Mullahy

Title: Professor

Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://uwmadison.box.com/s/7w5qtauhc61sjo8ngxfmps8ua1uiw3pm

Primary Area if Expertise: Theory, Econometric Advances, and Cost Advances

Additional Areas of Expertise: “Health, Labor Markets, & the Economy”, Obesity & Nutritional Outcomes, Prescription Drugs, “Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Substances”

Keywords: health behaviors, health status measurement

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher

Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Substances

Name: Kitt Carpenter

Title: Professor of Economics

Organization: Vanderbilt University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://sites.google.com/site/kittcarpenter/

Primary Area if Expertise: Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Substances

Additional Areas of Expertise: Minority Health and Health Disparities

Keywords: LGBT health, policy, alcohol, substance use, risky behavior

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Benjamin Cowan

Title: Associated Professor

Organization: Washington State University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://people.ses.wsu.edu/cowan/

Primary Area if Expertise: Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Substances

Additional Areas of Expertise: “Health, Labor Markets, & the Economy”, Socioeconomic Status and Health

Keywords: education, college, health behaviors, demand for health

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Catherine Maclean

Title: Associate Professor

Organization: Temple University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://liberalarts.temple.edu/academics/faculty/maclean-catherine

Primary Area if Expertise: Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Substances

Additional Areas of Expertise: “Health, Labor Markets, & the Economy”, Health Reform, Mental Health, Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance

Keywords: Substance use, mental health, insurance, regulation, public policy

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Angelica Meinhofer

Title: Assistant Professor

Organization: Weill Cornell Medicine

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://sites.google.com/site/angelicameinhofer/

Primary Area if Expertise: Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Substances

Additional Areas of Expertise: Maternal & Child Health

Keywords: opioid use, substance use disorder, policy evaluation

Mentee Type: Ph.D. Students


Name: Erik Nesson

Title: Associate Professor

Organization: Ball State University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://sites.google.com/site/eriknesson/research?authuser=0

Primary Area if Expertise: Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Substances

Additional Areas of Expertise: Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance, Socioeconomic Status and Health, Obesity & Nutritional Outcomes, Maternal & Child Health

Keywords: Tobacco control, alcohol, ACA, education and health, law and economics, crime

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


Name: Michael Pesko

Title: Associate Professor

Organization: Georgia State University

Works in: Academia

CV or Website: https://aysps.gsu.edu/profile/michael-pesko/

Primary Area if Expertise: Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Substances

Additional Areas of Expertise: “Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Substances”

Keywords: e-cigarettes, smoking cessation, tobacco

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: David Powell

Title: Senior Economist

Organization: RAND

Works in: Research Institute

CV or Website: https://sites.google.com/site/davidmatthewpowell/cv

Primary Area if Expertise: Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Substances

Additional Areas of Expertise: “Theory, Econometric Advances, and Cost Advances”, “Health, Labor Markets, & the Economy”, Demand for & Effect of Health Insurance

Keywords: opioid crisis, moral hazard, tax subsidy

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher


 Name: Sharmini Radakrishnan

Title: Dr

Organization: Abt Associates

Works in: Non-academic private sector

CV or Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharmini-radakrishnan-3201b02/

Primary Area if Expertise: Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Substances

Additional Areas of Expertise: Maternal & Child Health, Prescription Drugs, Health Systems & Health Care Financing, Minority Health and Health Disparities, Mental Health

Keywords: Health Behaviors, Health Policy, Behavioral Health, Maternal and Child Health

Mentee Type: Student or Early Career Researcher