Changes in Employment Status and Access to Care During COVID-19 Pandemic Among Low-Income Adults in 4 Southern States.
Figueroa JF, Tosin-Oni M, Phelan J, Orav EJ, Epstein AM.
J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Apr 15. PMID: 35428901
Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management
Health Policy and Management
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medicine-Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Jose F. Figueroa, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). He is also a practicing Internist and Associate Physician at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he serves as the Faculty Director of the BWH Medicine Residency Management & Leadership Pathway.
Dr. Figueroa received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his M.P.H. from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital.
His main research interests focus on understanding the drivers of health care spending and poor clinical outcomes among older, vulnerable populations with complex needs. To date, this has included work on racial and ethnic minorities, older adults with frailty, people with disabilities, and people with serious mental illness. His research also focuses on evaluating how policy interventions and payment reform aimed at improving quality of care and controlling costs are working, and in particular, how they affect safety-net providers and hospitals.
To support his work, Dr. Figueroa has previously received the HMS DICP Fellowship, the Harvard Catalyst NIH KL2 Award, the Harvard Global Health Institute Burke Global Health Fellowship, and the BWH Faculty Development Award. He has also received grants from the Commonwealth Fund, the Peterson Center on Healthcare, the Harvard Center for AIDS Research, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
MD, Medicine
Harvard Medical School, Boston
MPH, Health Policy
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston
Internal Medicine Residency
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
Figueroa JF, Tosin-Oni M, Phelan J, Orav EJ, Epstein AM.
J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Apr 15. PMID: 35428901
Figueroa JF, Katz IT, Hyle EP, Horneffer KE, Nambiar K, Phelan J, Orav EJ, Jha AK.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2022 04. 41(4):581-588. PMID: 35377765
Saenz A, Tsugawa Y, Phelan J, Orav EJ, Figueroa JF.
JAMA Health Forum. 2022.
Yearby R, Clark B, Figueroa JF.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2022 02. 41(2):187-194. PMID: 35130059
Lam MB, Friend TH, Erfani P, Orav EJ, Jha AK, Figueroa JF.
J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Jan 12. PMID: 35022958
Velasquez D, Figueroa JF.
NEM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery. 2022. 3(1).
Tsai TC, Bryan AF, Rosenthal N, Zheng J, Orav EJ, Frakt AB, Figueroa JF.
JAMA Health Forum. 2021. 2(12):e214214.
Papanicolas I, Figueroa JF.
Health Serv Res. 2021 12. 56 Suppl 3:1295-1298. PMID: 34755338
Figueroa JF, Horneffer KE, Riley K, Abiona O, Arvin M, Atsma F, Bernal-Delgado E, Blankart CR, Bowden N, Deeny S, Estupiñán-Romero F, Gauld R, Hansen TM, Haywood P, Janlov N, Knight H, Lorenzoni L, Marino A, Or Z, Pellet L, Orlander D, Penneau A, Schoenfeld AJ, Shatrov K, Skudal KE, Stafford M, van de Galien O, van Gool K, Wodchis WP, Tanke M, Jha AK, Papanicolas I.
Health Serv Res. 2021 12. 56 Suppl 3:1302-1316. PMID: 34755334
Erfani P, Phelan J, Orav EJ, Figueroa JF, Jha AK, Lam MB.
Cancer. 2022 Mar 01. 128(5):1093-1100. PMID: 34767638
Medical records of Black patients are much more likely to contain negative descriptions than records of white patients, according to a new study.
A new set of papers takes an in-depth look at healthcare spending, use of hospitals and rehabs, and health outcomes across 11 countries for high-need, high-cost patients—those who are frail and have multiple chronic conditions.