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Health policy researchers often have questions about the effects of a policy implemented at some cluster-level unit, e.g., states, …

Health policy researchers often have questions about the effects of a policy implemented at some cluster-level unit, e.g., states, …

Background: State medical cannabis laws may lead patients with chronic noncancer pain to substitute cannabis in place of prescription …

A talk at SER 2023 in an invited symposium titled “Specifying and emulating target trials to estimate causal effects of complex exposures” organized by Ellen Caniglia.

Health policy researchers often have questions about the effects of state policy on individual-level outcomes collected over multiple …

A contributed presentation at JSM 2022. Part of a session on “Statistical Methods in Policy Evaluation: From COVID-19 to Medical Cannabis–Related Policy”.

A talk for the Research in Progress seminar series from the Johns Hopkins ALACRITY Center for Health and Longeivty in Mental Illness. I provide an overview of difference-in-differences (DiD), highlight a challenge (and solution) that arises when using individual-level data in DiD analyses, and offer guidance on when and how individual-level data is useful.

Policy implementation is a key component of scaling effective chronic disease prevention and management interventions. Policy can …

A contributed presentation at JSM 2022. Part of a session on “Statistical Methods in Policy Evaluation: From COVID-19 to Medical Cannabis–Related Policy”.

A poster at AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting 2022. I describe a simulation study investigating performance of difference-in-differences methods using hierarchical data for state-level health policy evaluation.