Health Policy/Outcomes Research

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:

Herndon, Jill Boylston
Research Associate Professor

Health Economics, Health Services Research, Health Policy, Health Care Antitrust, Quantitative Research Methods, Survey Design and Analysis, Program Evaluation.

Huang, I-Chan
Assistant Professor

Item Response Theory (IRT), Outcomes Research, Risk Adjustment, Provider Profiling, Shared Decision-Making (SDM), Health-related Quality of Life (HRQOL) Measurement.

Knapp, Caprice
Assistant Research Professor

Survey design and analysis, statistical analyses of expenditures and health outcomes, qualitative surveying of children with special health care needs, and program evaluation.

Nogle, June
Associate Research Scientist

Program evaluation techniques, quantitative methods and statistical computing, health services research, international and internal migration processes and measurement, demographic trends in Florida.

Pevonka, Peter
Professor

Reiss, John
Associate Professor, Institute for Child Health Policy

Shenkman, Betsy
Director, Institute for Child Health Policy

Health Policy, Child Health, Health Services Research, Outcome Evaluations

Vogel, Bruce
Director, Health Policy Research Division

Health care costs, rehabilitation outcomes, program evaluation, applied statistical methods in health services research.

Current Research in the Division:

Herndon, J. B. (Co-Investigator). Physician Implemented Oral Disease Prevention. Health Foundation of South Florida. Principal Investigator: Frank Catalanotto. 2008-2010. $20,000.
Herndon, J. B. (Principal Investigator on subcontract from RAND). Estimating the Relationship between Drug Adherence and Cost and Utilization for Asthma Care in the Medicaid Population. Principal Investigator: Soeren Mattke. RAND/Merck Childhood Asthma Network, Inc. 2008-2009. $50,000.
Herndon, J. B. (Principal Investigator) & Shenkman, E. A. (Co-Principal Investigator). Florida Healthy Kids Corporation Evaluation. Florida Healthy Kids Corporation. 2008-2009. $257,888.
Herndon, J. B. (Principal Investigator) & Tomar, S. (Co-Principal Investigator). Developing Florida's Oral Healthcare Workforce Strategic Plan. Florida Department of Health. 2009. $58,491.
Herndon, J. B. (Principal Investigator). Children's Oral Healthcare Access Program. Florida Department of Health. 2008-2009. $8,065.
Huang, I.-C., (Principle Investigator). Using Item Response Theory to Improve Children Quality of Life Assessment. NIH. 2009-2012. $383,567.
Knapp, C. (Principal Investigator). Faculty Enhancement Opportunity (FEO) Award. University of Florida, Office of the Provost. 2009. $15,021.
Reiss, J. G. (Principal Investigator). CMS Youth Transition Initiative. Florida Department of Health. 2008-2009. $84,281.
Reiss, J. G. (Principal Investigator). Distance Learning for Maternal and Child Health Training. HRSA. 2007-2009. $275,294.
Reiss, J. G. (Principal Investigator). Promoting Health Care Transition of Youth and Young Adults. Florida Developmental Disabilities Council. 2008-2009. $54,764.
Shenkman, E. A. (Co-Investigator). Biostatistics, Outcomes, and Data Management Core. Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC). Principal Investigator: Pahor. 2007 -2012. NIH/NIA, $1,200,000.
Shenkman, E. A. (Co-Principal Investigator) & Wu, S. S. (Co-Investigator). Statistical Support, RORC, Reap Project. Principal Investigator: Hoffman. US Department of Veterans Affairs. 2008-2009. $175,462.
Shenkman, E. A. (Co-Principal Investigator), & Knapp, C. A. (Co-Investigator). Occupational Safety and Infection Control. Principal Investigator: Radonovich. US Department of Veterans Affairs. 2008-2009. $22,277.
Shenkman, E. A. (Principal Investigator). Evaluating Health Care Quality in Texas Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program. State of Texas. 2007-2012. $12,233,527.
Shenkman, E. A. (Principal Investigator). Quality and Outcomes of Care for Children With Severe Special Health Care Needs in Prepaid Health Care Systems. Florida Department of Health/Maternal and Child Health Bureau. 2006-2009. $575,000.
Shenkman, E. A. (Principal Investigator). Quality of Care for Children in Public Insurance Programs. Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services/Agency for Health Care Administration. 2006-2009. $1,350,000.
Shenkman, E. A. (Principal Investigator). Stroke Queri, VA RORC. US Department of Veterans Affairs. 2007-2009. $100,000.
Shenkman, E. A. (Principal Investigator). VA Rehabilitation Outcomes Research Center for Veterans with Central Nervous System Damage (ROC 01-124). Principal Investigator: Hoffman. US Department of Veterans Affairs. 2008-2009. $79,883.
Vogel, W. B. (Principal Investigator). Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Stroke Rehabilitation Settings in the VA. VA RR&D. 2008-2011. $623,915.
Vogel, W. B. (Principal Investigator). Identifying Potential Demand for Rehabilitation Services Among Returning Veterans. VA HSR&D. 2009-2010. $358,950.