PhD Students

PhD Students Who Passed Their Qualifying Exams

Student	Area of Emphasis	Research Interests	Advisor(s)
Sophia Anyatonwu	Health Economics	Population Health Outcomes, Long-Term Care, Emergency Department Use, Health Literacy, Financial Literacy, Legal Epidemiology	Dr. Hye-Chung Kum
Judith Beverly	Health Policy	Health Care Access and Delivery, Disability Policy, Children and Youth with Special Needs, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Population Health, GIS and Spatial Analysis Methods, Mixed Methods Research	Dr. Robert Ohsfeldt
Laura Benavides	Health Economics	Population health outcomes, payment reforms, health services utilization, primary care services delivery, health policy, health disparities	Dr. Hye-Chung Kum
Kesler Brock	Health Economics	Health Insurance, Health Outcomes, Transportation Law, Medical Factors Research, Demographics	Dr. Gerard E. Carrino
Morgan Kassabian	Health Economics	Rural health, rural hospital closures, health outcomes, antimicrobial resistance, maternal-child health, spatial health economics, behavioral economics	Dr. Robert Ohsfeldt
Nikita Sandeep Wagle	Health Economics	Cancer prevention, care delivery, and outcomes, health disparities, social epidemiology, telemedicine, sexual and reproductive health, health policy, survey design, and analysis.	Dr. Hye-Chung Kum

Susmita Chakraborty	Health Economics	Value-based healthcare, health services utilization, outcomes research, health insurance, health technology assessment, telebehavioral health, global health.
Wen Hsin Chen (Minnie)	Health Policy	Telehealth, primary care, healthcare delivery and outcomes, rural health, health disparities.
Gogoal Falia	Health Policy	Public Health Policy, Healthcare Disparities, Financing Rural Health, Healthcare Access, Cost-Effectiveness Interventions in Elderly Care, Minority Health and Health Disparities, Mixed-Method Research, Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Research, Qualitative Research.
Jing (Alice) Jin	Health Economics
Ryan C. Rigby	Health Policy	Veteran’s rural health, access to care, health outcomes.
Aakriti Shrestha	Health Policy	Maternal and child health, minority maternal health outcomes, reproductive health, rural health, immigrant health, Medicaid expansion, minority health disparities, government welfare expansion, primary interventions, global health.