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Chasing the Flames: A Look Back at COVID-Era Policy Making, Economics, and Data
Eggers Hall, 220
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Kosali Simon is the Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor, associate vice provost for health sciences and Distinguished Professor in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University.
Simon is a nationally known health economist who specializes in applying economic analysis in the context of health insurance and health care policy. Her current research mainly focuses on the impact of health insurance reform on healthcare and labor market outcomes, and on the causes and consequences of the opioid crisis.
Simon is a research associate of the National Bureau for Economic Research, a group with which she has been affiliated since 2002. She serves as a member of the governing body of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM). From 2009-2016, she served as a board member of the American Society of Health Economists; from 2014-2017 she served as a board member of the American Economic Association (AEA)'s Committee on the Status of Women in Economics (CSWEP), and directed the national mentoring program for female assistant professors in economics.
She also served a three-year term with the nation's largest health philanthropy, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF); in 2013, she was selected to the National Advisory Committee of RWJF Health Policy Scholars Program, a committee composed of 13 nationally recognized experts in social science and health policy. In 2007, Simon was recognized for her early contributions to health services research as the recipient of the John D. Thompson Prize for Young Investigators.
The Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture is held in honor of Herbert Lourie, M.D., a distinguished physician and member of the national and international medical communities in the field of neurosurgery. Each lecture in this series hosts a notable speaker from one of the many facets of the health care field.
Category
Social Science and Public Policy
Type
Lectures and Seminars
Region
Campus
Open to
Alumni
Faculty
Staff
Students, Graduate and Professional
Students, Undergraduate
Organizer
MAX-Center for Policy Research
Accessibility
Communication Access Real-time Translation (CART)
American Sign Language (ASL) Interpretation
Contact Alyssa Kirk to request additional accommodations