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.

Dr. Meyers is an Assistant 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.

Dr. Bilinski is the Peterson Family Assistant Professor of Health Policy at Brown University School of Public Health. Her research focuses on developing novel methods for policy evaluation and applying these to identify interventions that most efficiently improve population health and well-being. Dr. Bilinski's methodological interests include advancing data-driven approaches to observational causal inference, improving causal identification and interpretability in high-dimensional simulation models, and incorporating both cost-effectiveness and affordability into health care decision-making. She studies a range of policy areas, including health insurance reform, gaps in equitable and comprehensive access to dental care, and infectious disease management. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Bilinski worked with policymakers and researchers on projects including short-term hospital forecasts during the spring of 2020; modeling to inform population contact tracing and mitigation of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in K-12 schools; and quantification and attribution of excess mortality.

Peter Hull received his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 2017 and came to Brown in 2021 after working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago, a Research Fellow at the Becker Friedman Institute, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research New England. He is a labor economist with research interests in applied econometrics, education, healthcare, and discrimination. He is a Faculty Research Fellow in the National Bureau of Economics programs in Labor Studies and Health Care, an Affiliated Faculty Member at MIT Blueprint Labs, and a Research Network Affiliate of CESifo. 

Professor Hull works on developing new econometric methods for measuring quality across different institutions (such as schools, hospitals, and insurance plans) as well as inequality in high-stakes decision-making (such as pretrial release or lending decisions). Much of this work leverages quasi-experimental assignment in an instrumental variables framework. Professor Hull has also developed new frameworks for leveraging such quasi-random shocks in settings with complex non-random shock exposure. 

Dr. Kosar is an Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. Professor Kosar is a health services researcher with training in health economics whose research broadly focuses on understanding variation in acute, post-acute, and long-term care utilization, quality, and outcomes among Medicare beneficiaries. His current work focuses on the selection and outcomes of nursing home care for patients with and without dementia, the quality of care provided by critical access hospitals, and the evaluation of alternative payment models for long-term nursing home residents. 

Dr. Singh is Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. Professor Singh came to Brown after completing her Ph.D. in health economics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her areas of research and expertise include competition, consolidation, and vertical integration in health care markets. Her primary research examines how strategic acquisitions of physician practices by private equity funds change physician practice patterns and the downstream effects on cost, quality, and the clinical workforce, and has been featured in Vox, Bloomberg Business, Fortune Magazine, Kaiser Health News, and Politico.

Erin Fuse Brown is a Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. She was previously the Catherine C. Henson professor of law and director of the Center for Law, Health & Society at Georgia State University.

Professor Fuse Brown’s areas of research and expertise include health law and policy, health care finance, health care consolidation and prices, the Affordable Care Act, single-payer and public option health reforms, ERISA preemption of state health laws, consumer financial protections for patients against surprise medical bills and medical debt. She also serves as a consultant to the National Academy for State Health Policy to provide legal and policy resources and draft model laws for its Center for Health System Costs, funded by Arnold Ventures.  Professor Fuse Brown’s work has influenced health policy at the state and national levels. 

Jason Buxbaum, PhD, MHSA, is an Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice (Research Scholar) at the Brown University School of Health. Jason studies US healthcare spending, with a particular focus on acute care. His work has examined the impact of hospital-directed Covid-19 provider relief funding, the relationship between changing demand and hospital resource use, and the relative contribution of acute care to population health.

Jason received a PhD in health policy from Harvard University in 2024, a master's in health services administration from the University of Michigan in 2014, and a BA from Bates College in 2008. He has worked as a policy analyst at the National Academy for State Health Policy, a senior analyst in the policy development and reimbursement strategies area of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, and a project manager for Michigan’s $70 million State Innovation Models federal award. Jason also managed an industry-academia partnership dedicated to eliminating care that is harmful, unnecessary, or both.

Dr. Murray is an Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at the Brown University in the School of Public Health. 

Her areas of expertise include health care spending and private insurance markets. Dr. Murray’s primary research examines state policies to address commercial health care prices. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Health Affairs, JAMA Health Forum, and The Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. Dr. Murray earned her Ph.D. in health policy and economics from the University of Michigan School of Public Health and holds a graduate degree in public policy from Georgetown University.