IHPS Federal and Non-California State Government Work

Sanket Dhruva, MD, MHS and Rita Redberg, MD, MS have partnered with the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) to develop and implement evidence-based polices intended to reduce low-value care with medical devices, including: invasive coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary intervention, endovascular intervention for lower extremity peripheral arterial disease, and sinus procedures.

Jack Turban, MD, MHS serves as an expert witness for several federal cases related to the mental health of transgender and gender diverse youth. These include cases in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Illinois, and Tennessee where the ACLU is challenging bans on gender-affirming medical care for adolescents with gender dysphoria.

Joanne Spetz, PhD testified in federal court challenging Virginia’s prohibition against nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, and physician assistants providing abortion care. She also provided an expert report to federal court in Wisconsin on the same topic.

George Sawaya, MD works with the Center for Disease Control (CDC) under an Interprofessional Agreement doing studies using large datasets, including the National Survey of Family Growth, the Medicare dataset, SEER and the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program. Some publications from this work examine annual use trends in cervical cancer screening–associated services, estimating the effect of human papillomavirus (HPV) genotyping utilization in a national screening program, and examining trends in the use of cervical cancer screening tests during 2013–2019 among commercially insured women.

Alison Cohen, PhD is currently a fellow with the U.S. federal government's Office of Evaluation Sciences. As an OES fellow, she collaborates with different government agencies to design and conduct evaluations and build evidence to support government decision-making. Projects currently include systematically reviewing the evidence on interventions to increase health insurance enrollment in Affordable Care Act marketplaces, and collaborations with the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of State.

Renee Mehra, PhD’s work was used extensively in the April 2023 United States Government Office of Accountability report, MIDWIVES Information on Births, Workforce, and Midwifery Education.