Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research

Our Team

Meet the experts who make up the Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research.

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Our Team

Meet the experts who make up the Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research.

Leadership

  • Andrew Ryan

    Andrew M. Ryan Ph.D.

    Director for the Center for Advancing Health Policy Through Research, Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice
    andrew_m_ryan@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Dr. Ryan is a Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice and the founding director of the Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) at Brown. Professor Ryan came to Brown in the fall of 2022 from the University of Michigan School of Public Health, where he served as director of the Center for Evaluating Health Reform, co-director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy, and associate director of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation’s Data and Methods Hub.

  • David Meyers

    David J. Meyers Ph.D., MPH

    Medicare Lab Lead, Associate Director for the Center for Advancing Health Policy Through Research, Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice
    david_meyers@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Dr. Meyers is an Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy, Policy and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. Professor Meyers is a health services researcher and health economist whose research broadly focuses on how payment and delivery reform affect the outcomes of historically marginalized patient populations. His current research interests include trying to understand the drivers of inequities in the Medicare Advantage program, the evaluation of care management programs for high-risk patient populations, and Medicaid policy for patients with chronic illness.

  • Chris Whaley

    Christopher M. Whaley Ph.D.

    Markets and Competition Lab Lead, Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice
    christopher_whaley@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Christopher Whaley is an Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health, having joined from the RAND Corporation, where he remains a health economist. His research focuses on health care price transparency and market structure and has been published widely and featured in outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and CNN, with findings cited in state and federal policymaking.

  • Fuse Brown

    Erin Fuse Brown JD, MPH

    Health Law Lab Lead, Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice
    erin_fuse_brown@brown.edu

    Erin Fuse Brown is a Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health and former Catherine C. Henson Professor of Law at Georgia State University. Her work focuses on health law and policy, health care consolidation and pricing, consumer financial protections, and state and federal health reforms, and has informed policymaking at both the state and national levels.

Faculty

  • Jason Buxbaum

    Jason Buxbaum Ph.D., MHSA

    Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice
    jason_buxbaum@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Jason Buxbaum is an Assistant Professor (Research Scholar) of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. His research focuses on U.S. health care spending and acute care, including hospital resource use, COVID-19 provider relief funding, and the role of acute care in population health.

  • Peter Hull

    Peter Hull Ph.D.

    Professor of Economics
    peter_hull@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Peter Hull is an Associate Professor of Economics at Brown University, having joined the faculty in 2021 after appointments at the University of Chicago, the Becker Friedman Institute, and Microsoft Research New England. A labor economist, his research focuses on applied econometrics, education, health care, and discrimination, with an emphasis on measuring institutional quality and inequality in high-stakes decision-making.

  • Kosar

    Cyrus M. Kosar Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice
    cyrus_kosar@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Cyrus Kosar is an Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. A health services researcher with training in health economics, his work examines variation in acute, post-acute, and long-term care among Medicare beneficiaries, including nursing home care quality, dementia-related outcomes, critical access hospitals, and alternative payment models.

  • Jeff Marr

    Jeffrey Marr Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice
    jeffrey_marr@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Dr. Marr is an Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. Professor Marr is a health economist who studies health care markets using quasi-experimental methods and administrative data. His research focuses on private health insurance and the Medicare program. He received his PhD in health economics and policy from Johns Hopkins University.

  • Roslyn C. Murray

    Roslyn C. Murray Ph.D., MPP

    Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice
    roslyn_murray@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Roslyn Murray is an Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. Her research focuses on health care spending, private insurance markets, and state policies aimed at curbing commercial health care prices, with work published in journals including Health Affairs and JAMA Health Forum.

  • Lindsey Murtagh

    Lindsey Murtagh JD, MPH

    Distinguished Senior Fellow
    lindsey_murtagh@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Lindsey Murtagh is a Distinguished Senior Fellow in the Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. She previously served in senior leadership at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, where she helped develop federal policies on private insurance, including the No Surprises Act, the Affordable Care Act, mental health parity, and COVID-19 coverage.

  • Rooke-Ley

    Hayden Rooke-Ley JD

    Senior Fellow
    hayden_rooke-ley@brown.edu

    Hayden Rooke-Ley is a Senior Fellow at the Brown University School of Public Health. His work focuses on corporate consolidation in health care, Medicare and Medicaid financing, and health-care workforce issues, with publications in outlets including The New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA, and experience advising state and federal policymakers.

  • Singh

    Yashaswini Singh Ph.D.

    Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice
    yashaswini_singh@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Yashaswini Singh is an Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. Trained as a health economist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, her research examines competition, consolidation, and private equity acquisitions in health care—focusing on impacts on prices, quality, and the physician workforce—and has been featured in outlets including Vox, Bloomberg Business, Fortune, Kaiser Health News, and Politico.

  • Alyssa Bilinski

    Alyssa Bilinski Ph.D.

    Peterson Family Assistant Professor of Health Policy, Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice and Biostatistics
    alyssa_bilinski@brown.edu
    Research Profile

    Alyssa Bilinski is the Peterson Family Assistant Professor of Health Policy at the Brown University School of Public Health. Her research develops and applies innovative policy evaluation methods to improve population health, with a focus on causal inference, cost-effectiveness, and affordability across areas including health insurance reform, equitable access to dental care, and infectious disease policy.

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