Who Carries and Uses Naloxone in the U.S.?
The study provides the first nationwide look at who knows about, carries and uses the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone, which became available over the counter in 2023.
Wesley A Miller, PhD
Wesley Miller is an applied microeconomist studying the intersection of urban and environmental economics. His research focuses on climate change adaptation, natural disaster recovery, and high-functioning housing markets.
Dennis Lee, PhD
Dennis Lee is an AHRQ T-32 postdoctoral research fellow affiliated with the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics. His research interests are on the healthcare delivery of treatments for substance use disorders, primarily using quasi-experimental research designs. Some of his recent work include…
Marina Ritchie, PhD
Marina is an Alzheimer’s Trial Recruitment Innovation Lab (ATRIL) Fellow and a Postdoctoral Scholar on the Biostatistics team at the USC Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute (ATRI). Her research focuses on identifying means to improve recruitment and retention of participants in Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders (ADRD) research, including clinical trials. She received her PhD from…
Hoda S. Abdel Magid, MHS, PhD
Hoda S. Abdel Magid, MHS, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences and in the Spatial Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California. Previously, she served as an instructor and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at Stanford University, where she received an NHLBI…
Thalia Porteny, PhD, MSc.
Dr. Thalia Porteny is a health policy scholar and applied ethicist. She is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Mailman School of Public Health. Her interests are motivated by the needs she saw growing up in Mexico and working in the Mexican Ministry of Health. Drawing from ethics, health…
Shaun Harper, PhD
Two U.S. Presidents and a California Governor have appointed Shaun Harper to significant boards and councils. In 2024, he joined the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy as a Professor in the Department of Public Policy and Management. Harper is one of 14 Provost Professors, an elite cadre of interdisciplinary faculty members who hold…
Sharon Orrange, MD, MHS
Sharon Orrange, MD, MHS, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine and maintains a private practice at Keck Signature Care in Beverly Hills. With over two decades at USC, Dr Orrange has played an integral role as an…
Michael E. Chernew, PhD
Michael Chernew, PhD, is the Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy and the Director of the Healthcare Markets and Regulation (HMR) Lab in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Chernew’s research examines several areas related to improving the health care system including studies of novel benefit designs, Medicare…
Lowell Schiller, JD
Lowell Schiller is a Nonresident Senior Scholar at the USC Schaeffer Institute. He has held senior leadership roles in health law and policy in both the public and private sectors. Most recently, he was the Chief Legal and Regulatory Officer at Aetion, a health technology company that turns real-world data into evidence, where he continues…
Drishti Baid
Drishti Baid is a Predoctoral Researcher at the USC Schaeffer Center and a PhD Candidate at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. Her prior research focusses on methodological issues pertaining to cost-effectiveness analyses, measurement of patient preferences, value-based pricing, and health outcomes research. Baid earned a BA in Economics at the National University…
Manav Midha
Manav Midha is a researcher at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics and an MD candidate at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Before medical school, he was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, advising national nonprofit health systems, academic medical centers, and private equity investors on growth strategy,…
Ryan Long
Ryan Long has over 25 years of Capitol Hill and health policy experience. He was a Senior Policy Advisor and Counsel to Speaker Kevin McCarthy during his rise from House Minority Leader to Speaker of the House. Long began his career in 1998 working for Representative Charlie Norwood of Georgia. In 1999 he began working for Representative Joe Barton…
Jonathan Blum
Jonathan (Jon) Blum is one of the nation’s foremost experts on the policy development and administration of federal health insurance and financing programs. He served most recently as the Principal Deputy Administrator and Chief Operating Officer for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). In this dual role, Jon led CMS’s program policy planning…
While traditional pharmacies remain essential, new care models may cater to higher-income and privately insured patients, Qato predicts
Phyllis Barkman Ferrell, DrPH, MBA
Phyllis Ferrell is an innovator, investor, and incubator for brain health and longevity. After three decades as a life sciences executive at Eli Lilly & Company, Phyllis retired from the pharmaceutical business and is now working as an independent advisor for multiple non-profit and private sector clients and is a Nonresident Scholar and the Managing…
Elizabeth Fowler, PhD, JD
Liz Fowler is a nationally recognized expert in federal health policy and a visionary leader with a proven record of success in both public and private sector executive roles. Most recently, Liz was Deputy Administrator and Director of the Innovation Center at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). In that role, she was…
Learning From the Behavior of Physicians and Nurses As Patients in Medicare
Pragya Kakani is a health economist with research interests in the areas of prescription drug policy, provider behavior and organization, and the intersection of these topics in the US. Her prior and ongoing work has covered topics including integration between pharmacies and physician organizations, pharmaceutical rebates, and disparities in hospital quality. Her work has appeared…