- Congenital Heart Disease Studies
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Housing Market and Economics
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Heart Failure Treatment and Management
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Urban Planning and Valuation
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Cardiovascular Issues in Pregnancy
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Retirement, Disability, and Employment
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Preterm Birth and Chorioamnionitis
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
New York University
2017-2025
Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
2025
Dartmouth College
2025
Harvard University
2020-2024
Wagner College
2017-2024
Harvard University Press
2020-2024
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
2019-2022
Texas Health Dallas
2021
National Bureau of Economic Research
2017
Although the pace of gentrification has accelerated in cities across US, little is known about health consequences growing up gentrifying neighborhoods. We used New York State Medicaid claims data to track a cohort low-income children born period 2006–08 for nine years between January 2009 and December 2017. compared 2017 outcomes who started out neighborhoods that gentrified 2009–15 with those other neighborhoods, controlling individual child demographic characteristics, baseline...
Improving housing quality may improve residents’ health, but identifying buildings in poor repair is challenging. We developed a method to health-related building inspection targeting. Linking New York City Medicaid claims data Landlord Watchlist data, we used machine learning identify housing-sensitive health conditions correlated with building’s presence on the Watchlist. identified twenty-three specific five broad categories consistent existing literature and health. these results...
Many public and subsidized housing developments in the US are aging need of significant repairs. Some observers worry that their poor condition threatens health residents. We evaluated a recent renovation was undertaken through transfer six from New York City Housing Authority to public-private partnership. studied whether private managers led improvements tenants' over three years, as measured by Medicaid claims. While we did not find individual outcomes, found relative overall disease...
Public health agencies are often faced with difficult decisions about where and how to allocate funding resources. This question of resource allocation is central public policy; however, related sometimes made via informal or subjective approaches. We walk readers through a process identifying needs across different neighborhoods in New York City (NYC) by examining community district-level outcomes using data from published Community Health Profile reports released the NYC Department Mental...
To evaluate the effects of a comprehensive traffic safety policy-New York City's (NYC's) 2014 Vision Zero-on health Medicaid enrollees.
<h3>Importance</h3> Given higher reimbursement rates, hospitals primarily serving privately insured patients may invest more in intensive coding than publicly patients. This lead these to code diagnoses for all <h3>Objective</h3> To estimate whether, the same Medicaid enrollee with multiple hospitalizations, a hospital's share of is associated number on claims. <h3>Design, Setting, and Participants</h3> cross-sectional study used patient-level fixed effects regression models inpatient claims...
Prior research suggests that high quality universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) programs can generate lifetime benefits, but the mechanisms generating these effects are not well-understood.In 2014, New York City made all 4-year-old children eligible for high-quality UPK emphasized developmental screening.We examine effect of this program on health and healthcare utilization enrolled in Medicaid using a difference-in-regression discontinuity design exploits both introduction fixed age cut-off...
We examine the effect of New York City’s universal pre-kindergarten program (UPK) on health and utilization children enrolled in Medicaid using a difference-in-regression- discontinuities design. find that UPK increases probability child is diagnosed with asthma or vision problems, receives treatment for hearing an immunization screening during year. These effects are not offset by lower rates kindergarten year, suggesting accelerates rate at which identified treated conditions could...
Introduction: Data on the longitudinal health experience after pediatric cardiac surgery are limited. We examined chronic medication use by disease severity amongst publicly insured children in New York State over course of childhood. Methods: identified Medicaid-enrolled youth <18 years with a history NYS CHS-COLOUR database, which links clinical registry data to 14 Medicaid (2006-2019). report total expenditures and prevalence outpatient use, defined as > 90 days filled prescription....