Bypassing high-quality maternity facilities: evidence from pregnant women in peri-urban Nairobi.
Stein DT, Golub G, Rothschild CW, Nyakora G, Cohen J, McConnell M.
Health Policy Plan. 2020 Dec 02. PMID: 33263768
Bruce A. Beal, Robert L. Beal, and Alexander S. Beal Associate Professor of Global Health
Global Health and Population
Dr. Cohen is a health and behavioral economist whose research uses randomized controlled trials and other rigorous quasi-experimental methods to evaluate the impact of maternal and child health programs and policies, both in the United States and East African countries. Dr. Cohen's research explores the behavioral channels by which health policies translate into health outcomes, with the aim of embedding this evidence into policy design and increasing policy impact. Dr. Cohen has conducted randomized controlled trials to evaluate the impact of incentives, subsidies, information, and decision architecture on health seeking behavior and health outcomes in the domains of malaria and maternal health from the prenatal through the postnatal period. Her research uses concepts from economics and psychology to explore drivers of critical health behaviors including maternity care seeking, postpartum contraception, and child nutrition. She also has used various quasi-experimental designs to evaluate the impact of large health policy and health system changes on population health, including malaria pharmaceutical subsidy policies and maternity provider payment models. Current work explores drivers of maternity provider behavior, including quality of care during labor and delivery and provision of postpartum contraception.
Dr. Cohen's work has been been published widely in top economics and public health journals and has been referenced in major national and international publications. She has won a mentorship award and a teaching award from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research on subsidy policies for insecticide treated nets was deemed by Vox as a top social science paper of the decade. Dr. Cohen was a member of the WHO Global Malaria Program's Technical Expert Group on Surveillance, Monitoring and Evaluation and has served on NIH expert review panels related to implementation science and impact evaluation.
Dr. Cohen received her bachelor's degree in Economics from Wesleyan University and her PhD in Economics from MIT, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.
Stein DT, Golub G, Rothschild CW, Nyakora G, Cohen J, McConnell M.
Health Policy Plan. 2020 Dec 02. PMID: 33263768
Han D, Khadka A, McConnell M, Cohen J.
JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Dec 01. 3(12):e2024589. PMID: 33284335
Donato K, McConnell M, Han D, Gunaratna NS, Tessema M, De Groote H, Cohen J.
BMJ Glob Health. 2020 Dec. 5(12). PMID: 33355261
Pace LE, Baum CF, Horvath K, Raja SC, Cohen J, Hawkins SS.
Med Care. 2020 11. 58(11):963-967. PMID: 32925457
Cohen JL, Leslie HH, Saran I, Fink G.
PLoS Med. 2020 09. 17(9):e1003254. PMID: 32925906
Li Z, Fawzi WW, Cohen JL, Verguet S.
Nutrients. 2020 Aug 30. 12(9). PMID: 32872615
Luisi K, Morabito KM, Burgomaster KE, Sharma M, Kong WP, Foreman BM, Patel S, Fisher B, Aleshnick MA, Laliberte J, Wallace M, Ruckwardt TJ, Gordon DN, Linton C, Ruggiero N, Cohen JL, Johnson R, Aggarwal K, Ko SY, Yang ES, Pelc RS, Dowd KA, O'Hagan D, Ulmer J, Mossman S, Sambor A, Lepine E, Mascola JR, Pierson TC, Graham BS, Yu D.
Sci Adv. 2020 Aug. 6(32):eaba5068. PMID: 32821824
Harris K, Sivamurthy S, Mohiuddin H, Aguila Gonzalez A, Bui T, Andrews K, Cohen J, McConnell M, Ahlers-Schmidt C.
Matern Child Health J. 2020 Jul. 24(7):923-931. PMID: 32372242
Larson E, Mbaruku GM, Cohen J, Kruk ME.
Int J Qual Health Care. 2020 Apr 21. 32(1):54-63. PMID: 31829427
Spyropoulos AC, Giannis D, Cohen J, John S, Myrka A, Inlall D, Qiu M, Akgul S, Hyman RJ, Wang JJ.
Clin Appl Thromb Hemost. 2020 Jan-Dec. 26:1076029620925910. PMID: 32633538
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