Grantee Spotlights

Elizabeth Kilbreth, Ph.D., is an Associate Research Professor in the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine.

Anna Sommers, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Analyst at The Hilltop Institute at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Anna has over ten years of experience conducting health services research, with expertise in survey and quantitative analysis related to health insurance access and service use. She has conducted studies in the areas of maternal and child health, access to care, health services use and spending, eligibility for insurance programs, Medicaid quality measurement, and local initiatives to cover children in California and Florida.

Carole Roan Gresenz, Ph.D., is a senior economist at RAND Corporation in Arlington, Virginia. Gresenz’s research interests include: access to health care, coverage decision-making in managed care organizations, civil justice, health care markets, and the uninsured.

We talked to Carole about crowd out, discovering California, and turning somersaults.

Tom Oliver, Ph.D., M.H.A., is Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and Associate Director for Health Policy at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. His research examines the processes of policy development and implementation, and how issues of technical, economic, and political feasibility shape the substantive design of health policies.