The Health Policy Workshop Speaker Series brings together health policy students and faculty, from within and outside the school, in a spirit of collaboration to further research and knowledge. Our collaborative resources include research training infrastructure, shared knowledge of conferences, databases, grants and fellowship opportunities, etc. For more information, contact Kosali Simon at simonkos@iu.edu.
Explore our past events
- March 5: Tarik Yuce, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine: “GLP-1 Agonists, Bariatric Surgery, and the Road Toward an Integrated Model of Obesity Treatment”
- February 12: Elizabeth Ananat, Professor of Women and Economics, Barnard College
- February 5: Guangqing Chi, Provost Professor, Indiana University - Bloomington: “From Data to Impact: A Community-Driven Convergence Approach to Global Environmental and Health Challenges”
- January 22: Riley League, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: “Fragmented Insurance and Billing Frictions: Understanding Denied Health Insurance Claims”
- January 16: Kevin Bryan, Associate Professor, University of Toronto: “Tools for an AI-driven Research Process”
- January 15: Alyssa Bilinski, Assistant Professor of Health Policy & Biostatistics, Brown University - “Test-Driven Development: A Framework for Incorporating Large Language Models in Research”
- December 4: Lady Ikeya, Public Affairs Ph.D. Candidate, The O’Neill School - “Balancing the Bottom Line: Personnel Costs and Input Choices in Nursing Homes”
- November 20: Rebecca McNally Keehn, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine - “Health Services Innovations to Enhance Access and Equity in Early Autism Diagnosis”
- October 30: Katie Ross-Driscoll, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine - “Unintended Consequences of Transplant Performance Metrics: Impacts on Access and Equity”
- October 23: Mark Unruh, Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences - “Nursing Home Ownership and Quality”
- October 16: Joel Adler, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care, The University of Texas at Austin - “Out of Sequence Organ Allocation in Kidney Transplantation: Trade-offs, Transparency, and Guardrails”
- October 9: Michelle Marcus, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Vanderbilt - “Burying the Lead: Effects of Public Lead Service Line Replacements on Blood Lead Levels and Property Values”
- September 25: Michael Richards, Professor; Director, Sloan Program in Health Administration, Cornell University - “Stress Relief? Externalities from Specialty Hospital Entry”
- August 29: Kurt Lavetti, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University - “The Earnings Incidence of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance”
- August 21: Rachel Cash, PhD Candidate, O’Neill School of Public & Environmental Affairs - “Health Effects of Extreme Temperature on People Experiencing Homelessness: A Research Design”
- August 14: Ben Chartock, Assistant Professor, Bentley University - “Arbitration and Strategic Zero Bidding in Insurer–Doctor Disputes”
- June 12: Jennifer Mangano, Doctoral Candidate, Indiana University Department of Economics - “Measuring Infant Mortality Using Synthetic Survival Curves”
- May 29: Mallory Dreyer, Public Affairs Ph.D. Candidate, Indiana University O’Neill School of Public & Environmental Affairs - “The Impact of Fiscal Policies to Promote Healthy Diets on Birth Outcomes: Evidence from the Navajo Nation”
- May 22: Xi Cheng, Associate Professor, Yale School of Public Health & Institution for Social and Policy Studies - “How Do Health Care Use, Spending, and Patient Outcomes Respond to a Timely Dementia Diagnosis?”
- May 15: Pauline Mourot, Assistant Professor of Economics, Boston University - “Should Top Surgeons Practice at Top Hospitals? Sorting and Complementarities in Healthcare”
- May 8: Zarek Brot-Goldberg, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago - “Privatizing Government-Sponsored Health Insurance: Medicare Advantage vs. Traditional Medicare”
- April 24: Lala Ma, Department of Economics, Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky - “Racial Dynamics of Federal Property Buyouts in Flood-Prone Areas”
- April 17: Ying Shi, Assistant Professor of Public Admin & International Affairs, Syracuse University - “The Consequences of Mobile Phone Restrictions in Schools”
- April 10: Michael Alexeev, Professor, Indiana University Department of Economics - “Ownership, asymmetric information, and quality of care for the elderly: Evidence from US nursing homes during the COVID-19 Pandemic”
- April 3: Julian Reif, Department of Finance, Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - “The Long-run Effect of Air Pollution on Survival”
- March 27: Myles Wagner, Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University - “How Can Regulating Health Insurance Design Address Market Failures?”
- January 23: Antonios Koumpias, University of Michigan-Dearborn: “Association of Retail Health Clinic Market Presence with Medical Appointment Wait Times, 2014-2018”
- January 16: Adam Wilk, Associate Professor of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine: “Medicare Advantage and Early Transplant Access in Underserved Communities”
- December 12: Daniel Johnson, IU Indianapolis Department of Geography
- November 14: Leila Agha, Harvard Medical School: “Productivity after Childbirth: Evidence from Physicians”
- November 7: Matt Aalsma, Jonathan and Jennifer Simmons Professor of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine: “Partnering with Indiana Communities to Implement Data Driven Overdose Prevention”
- October 31: Momotazur Rahman, Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Harvard University: “The Effect of Institutionalized Special Needs Plans (I-SNP) on Hospitalization Among Nursing Home Residents”
- October 24: Kelsey Drewry, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine: “Estimating the impact of a mandatory Medicare alternative payment model on racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in access to kidney transplantation”
- October 17: Adam Soliman, Assistant Professor, Clemson University John E. Walker Department of Economics: “Supply-Side Drivers of the Illicit Opioid Epidemic”
- September 19: Aparna Soni, Associate Professor, IU Indianapolis Fairbanks School of Public Health: “Does Expanding Medicaid Eligibility for Children Reduce Racial Disparities in Later-Life Labor Market Outcomes?”
- September 12: Parker Rogers, Assistant Professor, Kelley School of Business: “Regulating the Innovators”
- September 5: Joshua Vest, Interim Associate Dean for Research, IU Indianapolis Fairbanks School of Public Health: “Comparison of Methods to Measure Health-related Social Needs”
- August 30: Danae Hernandez Cortes, Arizona State University: “The Effects of Renewable Energy Projects on Employment: Evidence from Brazil”
- May 2: Kelly Yang, Assistant Professor, Kelley School of Business
- April 25: Cydney McGuire, Assistant Professor, O’Neill School and Vanessa Nichols, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science: “Trust, Anxiety and Hope Throughout COVID-19: Information Environments and Risk Appraisal among Latinx Americans”
- April 18: Matt Webb, Associate Professor, Carleton University Department of Economics: “Difference-in-Differences with Unpoolable Data”
- April 11: Lindsay Allen, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, “The Impact of Eliminating Buprenorphine Prior Authorizations among Medicaid enrollees in 9 States”
- April 4: Lauren Schmitz, Assistant Professor, La Follette School of Public Affairs: “Leveraging Epigenetic Data to Examine Lifecourse Disparities in Aging”
- March 28: Ricky Camplain, Assistant Professor, Indiana University School of Public Health: “Indigenous and Incarcerated: Do Two “Rights” Make a Wrong?: The Lack of Healthcare Delivery and Access in Tribal Jails”
- March 21: Michael Usher, Associate Professor, IU School of Medicine: “Fragmented Care of Hospital Super-utilizers: Implications for the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program”
- March 7: Terence Cheng, Research Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: “Economics of Internet Health Care: Insights from China’s Online Telemedicine Marketplace.”
- February 29: Volodymyr Lugovskyy, Director of Graduate Studies, Indiana University Department of Economics: “Refining the Analysis of Medicare Plan Choices and Utilization: A Disaggregated Approach”
- February 15: Karl Bilimoria, Chair, Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine: “Are The Stars Aligned? Improving CMS Public Reporting and Pay-for-Performance Programs”
- February 8: Victoria Barone, Assistant Professor, Notre Dame University Department of Economics: “Democracy and The Opioid Epidemic”
- February 1: Alden Cheng, Postdoc Research Associate, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: “Selection on Unobservables in Discrete Choice Models”
- January 25: Marylis Fantoni, PhD Candidate, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs: “At Their Fingertips: Online Reporting of Domestic Violence as a Tool to Decrease Administrative Burden”
- January 16: Kathleen Unroe, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine: “What’s Next for Long Term Care: Opportunities in Research, Policy and Clinical Practice”
- January 11: Jia Xiang, Assistant Professor, Kelley School of Business: “Physicians as Persuaders: Evidence from Hospitals in China”
- December 14: Ricky Camplain, Assistant Professor, IU School of Public Health: “Prioritizing Native American Health in Tribal Jails: Identifying Points of Intervention”
- December 7: Cynthia Pando, Health Services Research & Policy PhD Student, University of Minnesota: “The Public Charge Rule: How Proposed Changes Affected Latinx Citizen Children’s Medicaid Enrollment”
- November 30: Angela Campbell, Postdoctoral Fellow in Pediatrics, IU School of Public Health: “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Preeclampsia Screening”
- November 16: Alexia Torke, Professor, General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, IU School of Medicine: “Surrogate Decision Making For Adults with Cognitive Impairment”
- November 2: Jacob Wallace, Assistant Professor, Yale School of Public Health: “The Private Provision of Public Services: “Evidence from Random Assignment in Medicaid”
- October 26: Maggie Shi, Assistant Professor at University of Chicago: “Quantity Regulation in Healthcare”
- October 19: Hailemichael Shone, PhD Candidate, Indiana University Department of Economics: “Unwinding of Medicaid Continuous Coverage and Health Care Utilization and Outcomes of Older Adults: Evidence from Electronic Health Records”
- October 12: Dan Ly, Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles: “Variation in Emergency Department Physician Admitting Practices and Subsequent Mortality”
- October 5: Megdalynn Fisher, PhD Candidate, O’Neill School: “Assessing Ownership Dynamics and Quality of Care Under Non-State Government Owned Supplemental Payment Programs”
- September 28: Eli Baratz, PhD Candidate, O’Neill School of Public & Environmental Affairs: “How does access to healthcare services and healthcare use affect cognitive function among elderly with chronic conditions?”
- September 21: Cong Gian, PhD Candidate, O’Neill School of Public & Environmental Affairs: TBD
- September 14: Corey Kalbaugh, Associate Professor, IU School of Public Health: “Unconscious Bias is a Mechanism Underlying Race-Based Disparities in Vascular Care: Now What?”
- August 24: Jennifer Carnahan, MD, IU School of Medicine: “Complex Care Transitions: Nursing Home Post Acute Care Outcomes”
- April 20: David Haggstrom, IU School of Medicine: “Evaluation of the VA-Regenstrief Health Information Exchange Demonstration Project”
- April 13: Lauren Magee, O’Neill School IUPUI: “A Public Health Approach to Firearm Injuries”
- March 30: Lauren Hersch Nicholas, University of Colorado: “How Do Surrogates Make End-of-Life Decisions? An Experimental Survey Study”
- March 23: Travis Donahoe, Harvard: “Why Has The Opioid Epidemic Lasted So Long?”
- March 2: Jillian Carr, Purdue: “Stimulus Payments and Crime”
- February 23: Seth Freedman, O’Neill School: “Healthcare Supply and Utilization: The Effect of the Localization of Neonatal Intensive Care Units throughout the United States”
- February 16: Engy Ziedan, Tulane: “Racial Segregation in Healthcare Services”
- February 9: Anna Mueller, IU: “What Makes Schools Good at Suicide Prevention? Identifying the Organizational Roots of Youth Suicide Risk”
- January 26: Philipp DÖrrenberg, University of Mannheim: “How to improve small firms’ payroll tax compliance. Evidence from a randomized field experiment”
- January 19: Adibah Abdulhadi, OSU: “Selection in the Disability Insurance Market”
- December 1: Vini Singh, University of Massachusetts Amherst: “Power Dynamics in the Doctor-Patient Relationship”
- November 10: Shooshan Danagoulian, Wayne State University: “Seasonal Allergy Blues: Is Mental Health Worse on High Pollen Days?”
- November 3: Steve Cicala, Tufts University, “Adverse Selection as a Policy Instrument: Unraveling Climate Change”
- October 21: Melissa Kearney, University of Maryland: “Social Policy, Poverty, and Inequality”
- October 20: Mackenzie Alston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: “Resign or Be Resigned: How Global Shocks and Employer Actions Affect High-Skilled Workers”
- October 13: Kao-Ping Chua, University of Michigan: “Measuring and Improving the Quality of U.S. Opioid Prescribing”
- October 6: Patrick Carlin, O’Neill School: “Self-Governance of Healthcare Systems”
- September 30: Rosalie Pacula, University of Southern California: “The Impact of Recreational Cannabis Laws on Cannabis Related Health Encounters: Measuring Medical Markets Matters”
- September 29: Mallory Barnes, O’Neill School: “Public Health-Environment Connections: What Can We Learn From Satellite Remote Sensing?”
- September 22: Benjamin Harrell, Vanderbilt University: “Conversion Therapy Bans, Suicidality, and Mental Health”
- September 15: Laura Montenovo, O’Neill School: “Employment protection, dynamism, and productivity: Evidence from Italy”
- September 8: Jamila Michener, Cornell University: “Pandemic Medicaid: A Ground-up Perspective”
- September 1: Samuel Mann, Vanderbilt University: “Employment Non-Discrimination Acts and Mental Health”
- August 25: Ashley C. Bradford, PhD Candidate, O’Neill School
- December 9: Tamar Oostrom, Health Policy Workshop
- December 2: Aayush Khadka, Health Policy Workshop
- November 18: Zirui Song, Health Policy Workshop
- November 4: Adrienne Sabety, Health Policy Workshop
- October 28: Salama Freed, Health Policy Workshop
- October 21: Jia Xiang, Health Policy Workshop
- December 12: Laura Barrie Smith, Health Policy Workshop
- December 5: Felipe Lozano Rojas, Health Policy Workshop
- November 21: Jonathan Cantor, Health Policy Workshop
- November 14: Yanhao Wang and Ashley Bradford, Health Policy Workshop
- October 31: Cong Gian, Health Policy Workshop
- October 24: Johabed Olvera and Patrick Carlin, Health Policy Workshop
- October 17: Thuy Nguyen, Health Policy Workshop
- October 10: Sumedha Gupta, Health Policy Workshop
- October 3: Pinar Karaca Mandic, Health Policy Workshop
- September 26: Molly Schnell, Health Policy Workshop
- September 19: Jason Lindo, Health Policy Workshop
- September 17: Robert Einterz and Kara Wools-Kaloustian, Health Policy Workshop
- September 12: Lauren Jones, Health Policy Workshop
- September 5: Ludovica Gazze, Health Policy Workshop
- August 29: Laura Montenovo and Hsien-Chang Lin, Health Policy Workshop