Health Equity

Health equity research at IHPS goes beyond documenting disparities.

Institute research examines how individual, behavioral, social, and structural factors create population disparities. IHPS then champions efforts to address these factors and advance equity.

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Medical Cultures Lab

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Nancy Adler, PhD

Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD

Dorie Apollonio, PhD, MPP

Tobacco, cannabis, and opioid use, substance use Commercial determinants of health

Naomi Bardach, MD

Pediatric quality measurement and health equity, including value-based purchasing use cases

Claire Brindis, DrPH

Janet Coffman, PhD, MPP, MA

Health workforce, health insurance, access to health care

Mara Decker, DrPH

Daniel Dohan, PhD

Elizabeth Dzeng, PhD, MD, MPH

Valerie Flaherman, MD, MPH

Taressa Fraze, PhD

Health care configuration, care transformation, and payment reform

Stuart Gansky, MS, DrPH

Maria Glymour, ScD, MS

Laura Gottlieb, MD

Elan Guterman, MD

Outcomes and implementation of high-quality neurologic care

Robert A. Hiatt, MD, PhD

Renee Hsia , MD, MSc

Access to emergency care, disparities/inequities, healthcare pricing

Jeroen Jansen, PhD

Suni Kaiser, MD

Children's and adolescent health, patient experience & quality of care

Hemal Kanzaria, MD

Health-related social needs, frequent health care system users, homelessness

Leah Karliner, MD

Elaine Khoong, MD, MS

Implementation science, digital health, health disparities

Sandeep Kishore, MD, PhD

Barbara Koenig, PhD, RN

Margot Kushel, MD

Erica Langnas, MD

Perioperative health equity, opioid prescribing patterns in surgical patients.

Courtney Lyles, PhD

Christina Mangurian, MD, MAS

Promoting mental health equity in the delivery system and the workplace

Erin McCauley, PhD, MEd, MA

Health equity, sociology, demography, and mass incarceration

Sunita Mutha, MD

Bruce Ovbiagele, M.D., M.Sc., M.A.S., M.B.A., M.L.S.

Matt Pantell, MD, MS

Elena Portacolone, PhD, MBA, MPH

Science of living arrangements, Health disparities in dementia research

Marissa Raymond-Flesch, MD, MPH

Kim Rhoads, MD, MPH

John Rose, MD, MPH

Surgical care: access, quality, outcomes

Urmimala Sarkar, MD

Patient safety, chronic disease, and health equity

George Sawaya, MD

Dean Schillinger, MD

Health communication, Chronic disease, Primary care, Health policy

Gabriela Schmajuk, MD

Neelam Sekhri Feachem, MS

Hilary Seligman, MD, MAS

Food & nutrition insecurity, food policy, and impact-oriented science

Sharad Wadhwani, MD, MPH

Pediatric liver transplantation, social determinants of health, and implementation science

Lena Winestone, MD

Pediatric cancer racial and ethnic survival disparities

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