Health Policy and the Opioid Epidemic

Health policy has meaningful impacts on peoples’ lives, but those impacts are often difficult to study due to data availibility and the complexity of the policymaking process. In this series of collaborations, I provide statistical expertise to enable high-quality, trustworthy evaluation of the effects of health policies as they affect substance use in the United States, particularly in regards to the opioid epidemic. My primary collaborator in this space is Beth McGinty, PhD, chief of the Division of Health Policy and Economics at Weill Cornell Medical College.