Health Policy

The opioid epidemic has claimed countless lives in the United States, and policy solutions may be useful in curbing it. This series of collaborations investigates the effects of health policies on opioid prescribing and treatment in the United States.

Health policy evaluations often use difference-in-differences to estimate effects. However, interesting practical questions arise when using this approach with multilevel administrative data.

An extention to the target trial emulation framework to include special considerations when designing high-quality non-experimental studies to evaluate health policy.