Showing events starting from February 1, 2019 up to February 28, 2019
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The Learning Community on Poverty and Inequality Speaker Series presents: The ACA Medicaid Expansion in Michigan and Financial Health
February 8, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Sarah Miller's research interests are in health economics and, in particular, the short-term and long-term effects of public policies that expand health insurance coverage. In addition to her work on health economics, she is also a principal investigator in the Y Combinator Basic Income Randomized Controlled Trial. Her work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicaid, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Review of Economics and Statistics, among other journals. She has also been cited in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Economic Report of the President.
Miller is the Sanford R. Robertson Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan.
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LCPI Event: The Impact of Michigan's Medicaid Expansion on Dental Care Utilization, Oral Health and Job-Related Outcomes
February 22, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Professor Edith C. Kieffer, MPH, Ph.D., University of Michigan School of Social Work, conducts research addressing health and health care disparities. She has extensive experience planning, conducting and analyzing data from qualitative formative research and intervention research studies in community and health care settings, including randomized clinical trials. Kieffer is a co-Investigator for the evaluation of the Healthy Michigan Plan Medicaid expansion. She is leading qualitative studies around Michigan that explore the experiences of beneficiaries and health care providers, and the impact of Medicaid coverage, including its requirements and incentives, on access to and use of care, beneficiary health and other outcomes.