Division of Health Policy/Outcomes Research

About the Division:
Research in the Division of Health Policy/Outcomes Research focuses on health care quality, costs, and outcomes of care for children, adolescents and adults; the impact of public insurance programs for children; the organization and financing of health care systems; and econometric, psychometric, and health outcomes methods.

Faculty are funded by numerous federal agencies and nonprofit foundations, including the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Division also conducts evaluation research for Florida’s Department of Health, Agency for Health Care Administration, and Healthy Kids Corporation; and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.

The Health Policy/Outcomes Research faculty include:

Jill Boylston Herndon, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor, Institute for Child Health Policy and Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research
(Health Economics, Health Care Antitrust, Health Services Research, Health Policy, and Program Evaluation)

I-Chan Huang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research (Health Services Research, Health Outcomes Research, Risk Adjustment, Provider Profiling, Health-Related Quality of Life)

Caprice Knapp, Ph.D., Assistant Research Scientist, Institute for Child Health Policy and Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research (Health Economics, Health Services Research, Health Policy, Mixed Methods Research, and Program Evaluation)

June Marie Nogle, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist, Institute for Child Health Policy and Interim Associate Director, Clinical and Translational Research Informatics Program Data Center
Program Evaluation Techniques, Quantitative Methods And Statistical Computing, Health Services Research, International And Internal Migration Processes And Measurement, Demographic Trends In Florida

M. Peter Pevonka, M.S., R.Ph., Senior Associate Dean for Research Affairs
Assistant Vice President for Administration & Facilities, Research and Graduate Programs, Professor, Health Policy and Epidemiology

John G. Reiss, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics (Health Policy, Child Health)

Betsy Shenkman, Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research and Pediatrics, Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research,Director, Institute for Child Health Policy, College of Medicine University of Florida (Child and Adolescent Health Outcomes, Health Services Research)

Joseph V. Terza, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research (Health Economics, Econometrics, Economics of Substance Abuse and Smoking, Healthcare Finance)

W. Bruce Vogel, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Dept. of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Research Health Scientist, VA Rehabilitation Outcomes Research Center of Excellence (Health Care Costs, Rehabilitation Outcomes, Program Evaluation, Applied Statistical Methods in Health Services Research)