Health Policy & Management ·
Nursing Home Management and Public Health Crises
SPA professors and PhD candidate consider how regulation, management, and ownership affected COVID-19 outcomes in nursing homes.
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Latest Health Policy & Management News
Health Policy & Management ·
Fetal Personhood and Advance Healthcare Directives
SPA professor and graduate student expose unseen legal and health consequences of recent attacks on reproductive rights.
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Social Policy ·
Generation Z and Deaths of Despair
SPA professor reviews alarming national suicide trends, including an unprecedented rise among young people, and looks at possible drivers.
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Health Policy & Management ·
Representative Bureaucracy Contagion Effects in Health Care
SPA researchers show that a higher proportion of female physicians in the ER improves heart attack outcomes for women, even without doctor/patient gender matching.
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Recent Publications
- “There She Is, Your Ideal”: Negative Social Comparisons and Health Behaviors, Carpenter, Christopher S; Churchill, Brandyn F;
- Psychosocial Correlates of Social Problem-Solving and Empathy Among Youth in Fifteen Muslim Societies, Nasser, Ilham; Abu-Nimer, Mohammed;
- Shielding Women from Violence: The Effects of Violence Prevention and Monitoring Centers on Intimate Partner Violence in Türkiye, Asik, Gunes; Erten, Bilge; Tekin, Erdal; Tumen, Semih; Ulucan, Hakan;
Policy Briefs
Health Policy & Management ·
Abortion Access, Economic Hardship, and Crime: Unintended Consequences of Restrictive Policies
Policy Brief: abortion policies, typically debated on moral and legal grounds, have broader economic and social consequences.
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Health Policy & Management ·
Gender-, Race-, and Ethnicity-Based Discrimination in Mental Health Care
Policy Brief: Racial and sexual minorities may face discrimination in accessing health care, particularly mental health resources, since mental health providers have more discretion over accepting patients.
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Issue Briefs
Health Policy & Management ·
Pregnancy Exclusions in Advance Directives: A Post-Dobbs Equal Protection Argument
Issue Brief: In a forthcoming article, SPA Senior Scholar in Residence Jessica Waters and alumna Madelyn Adams (MPA, ‘25) propose an additional equal protection argument to bolster existing arguments against pregnancy exclusions.
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Meet our Health Policy Faculty
Alison Jacknowitz Interim Dean, School of Public Affairs SPA | Finance & Personnel Administration
Anna Amirkhanyan Professor SPA | Public Administration
Brandyn Churchill Assistant Professor SPA | Public Administration
Claudia Persico Associate Professor SPA | Public Administration
Dave Marcotte Professor SPA | Public Administration
Erdal Tekin Charles W. Fotis, Sr. and Dorothea G. Fotis Family Distinguished Professor of Health Policy SPA | Public Administration
Jessica Waters Senior Scholar in Residence
Julie Marie Baldwin Interim Vice Provost for Research and Innovation SPA | Justice, Law & Criminology
Kenneth Meier Distinguished Scholar in Residence SPA | Public Administration
Nathan Favero Provost Associate Professor SPA | Public Administration
Taryn Morrissey Professor, DPAP Chair, and Associate Dean of Research SPA | Public Administration
SPA Degrees in Health Policy & Management
Master of Public Administration (MPA)
Our program gives you the tools to meet complex public challenges with strong, capable leadership.
Master of Public Policy (MPP)
This program shapes policy analysts and changemakers of the future.
PhD Public Administration & Policy
Produce methodologically sound, socially relevant research that makes important contributions to knowledge and theory.
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