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  • Nathaniel Breg

    Nathaniel Breg

    Postdoctoral Scholar, Health Policy

    BioNate Breg is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University's Department of Health Policy and at the Palo Alto Veterans Health Administration. He earned his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University and his BA at Tufts University.

    His interest in health care providers intersects with questions from labor economics and industrial organization. Nate's current research investigates how providers respond to incentives, how they decide to adopt new technology, and how health care services affect local economies and local health. He is a 2020-2021 recipient of the Fellowship in Digital Health from CMU's Center for Machine Learning and Health.

    He previously worked at RTI International on evaluations of government health care initiatives, prospective payment systems, and health care delivery quality measures, employing econometrics and other quantitative methods. His clients included the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the U.S. Health and Human Services Department’s Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE).

    Research interests: health economics, labor economics, industrial organization, public economics, productivity, reimbursement and regulation, imperfect competition, organizational economics

  • Matthew P. Dizon, MD

    Matthew P. Dizon, MD

    Postdoctoral Scholar, Health Policy

    BioMatthew P. Dizon, MD, is a board-certified dermatologist and fellow in Health Services Research & Development at VA Palo Alto Health Care System.

  • Josefina Flores Morales

    Josefina Flores Morales

    Postdoctoral Scholar, Epidemiology

    BioJosefina (she/her/ella) is a Propel Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health in the School of Medicine with Dr. Mathew Kiang’s lab. Her research is about health and socioeconomic inequities across the life course. She is interested in diverging outcomes across race/ethnicity and documentation status. Josefina earned her B.A. in psychology with a public health minor from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She pursued her doctoral education in sociology at UCLA as well. Her doctoral studies were supported by the Health Policy Research Scholars program, a program by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

  • Ashley Griffin

    Ashley Griffin

    Postdoctoral Scholar, Health Policy

    BioDr. Ashley Griffin is a medical informatics postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research at Stanford and the VA Palo Alto Health Care System Center for Innovation to Implementation. Her research focuses on the use of digital health technologies and patient-generated health data to support patients with multimorbidities. Dr. Griffin's research develops methods and tools that can empower patients to take an active role in their health and inform decision-making for the care team.

  • Tracy Lam-Hine

    Tracy Lam-Hine

    Postdoctoral Scholar, Epidemiology

    BioTracy Lam-Hine (he/him), DrPH, MBA, is a postdoctoral research fellow mentored by Dr. David Rehkopf in the Stanford Medicine Department of Epidemiology and Population Health and the Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences. His research focuses on improving the measurement of structural racism in epidemiologic studies, the cardiopulmonary and mental health of Multiracial people in the United States, and the application of methods in social epidemiology to racial health inequities. Dr. Lam-Hine also collaborates with state and local health jurisdictions in California and Hawaii in applied epidemiology and surveillance projects on topics including structural racism, adolescent health, and COVID-19.