Publications

The proposal for a national PrEP program applies some of the lessons of the national COVID vaccine campaign to HIV prevention.

In this cohort study of nursing homes experiencing severe COVID-19 outbreaks, facilities experienced considerable staffing challenges during and after outbreaks. These results suggest the need for policy action to ensure facilities’ abilities to maintain adequate staffing levels during and after infectious disease outbreaks.

Medicaid managed care insurers play a crucial role in facilitating access to buprenorphine to treat opioid use disorder. Using a novel set of provider directory and prescription claims data, we examined variation in access to in-network buprenorphine-prescribing primary care providers among Medicaid managed care enrollees.

Facing unprecedented uncertainty and drastic trade-offs between public health and other forms of human well-being, policy makers during the Covid-19 pandemic have sought the guidance of epidemiologists and economists.

HBHI pilot study publication on a proposed framework for the appropriate use of telemedicine in primary care

HBHI pilot study publication on interview findings of what clinicians and patients consider to be appropriate use of telemedicine in primary care

Price surges often generate social disapproval and requests for regulation and price controls, but these interventions may cause inefficiencies and shortages. To study how individuals perceive and reason about sudden price increases for different products under different policy regimes, we conduct a survey experiment with Canadian and U.S. residents.

Medicare Advantage and the Maryland all-payer model

Realizing the promise of equity in the organ transplantation system

Hospitals with a greater number of beds and fewer primary care physicians are more likely to provide unnecessary medical tests or treatments, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health