He is also a Faculty Fellow in Drexel’s Center for Population Health and Community Impact. He received his PhD in economics from Stony Brook University. His research focuses on public policy analysis surrounding health care and health insurance reform. Specifically, he is interested in effect of health reform measures and changing economic conditions on health care access, utilization, and disparities. He also studies insurance network breadth, insurance network quality, and the role of network size as a barrier to care. Other research interests include health information technology, cost-effectiveness, hospital outcomes, and mental health and substance abuse. Methodologically, he specializes in applied microeconometric methods for causal inference as well as the analysis of large datasets.