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Amanda Chen, PhD
Scholar, USC Schaeffer Institute
Assistant Professor, USC Mann School
Biography
Amanda Chen is an Assistant Professor at the USC Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Her research uses quasi-experimental methods and administrative claims to evaluate the quality of and access to post-acute and long-term care for older adults. Chen’s current work focuses on payment systems to align incentives and quality, the clinical infrastructure in long-term care settings, transparency and reporting efforts, and the development of new measures of post-acute care access and quality.
She received her PhD in Health Policy from Harvard University, an MS in Health Policy and Economics from Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, and a BA in Public Health Studies from Johns Hopkins University.