My research focuses on the effects of macroeconomic conditions and individual-level economic shocks as drivers of health and human capital outcomes. I am interested in how various dimensions of economic opportunity impact near-term health and accumulate over the life-course, and how these effects are perpetuated or mitigated by public policies. Much of my research focuses on how labor market policies such as the Earned Income Tax Credit and the minimum wage may serve as levers to alleviate health disparities and improve population health.
I am currently a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Epidemiology & Population Health at the Stanford University School of Medicine. I received my PhD in Health Policy (concentration in health economics) and an MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. I previously worked as a research associate at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC.
Current appointment
Postdoctoral Scholar
Affiliations: Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Stanford University
Center for Population Health Sciences, Stanford University
Faculty Advisor: David Rehkopf, ScD, MPH
Education
PhD, Health Policy (Health Economics track) 2017 – 2022
University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health
Dissertation Committee: William H. Dow, Hilary Hoynes, Michael Reich
MPH, Epidemiology and Biostatistics 2015 – 2017
University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health
BA, Mathematical Economics 2008– 2012
Colorado College
Prior appointments and employment
Graduate Student Researcher 2018 – 2022
Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
University of California, Berkeley
Graduate Student Researcher 2015 – 2017
Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces
University of California, Berkeley
Research Assistant 2012 – 2015
Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population
The Urban Institute