Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
3333 California Street, Suite 265
San Francisco, CA 94118
Email:
laura.schmidt@ucsf.edu
Phone: 415- 476-0440
Fax: 415- 476-0705
Assistant:
Juliana Fung
Email:
jfung@fcm.ucsf.edu
(415) 502-4613
Link to: Alcohol Research Group
Link to: Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine
Curriculum Vitae: Laura Schmidt
Pub Med Search: Schmidt LA
Laura's References (password protected)
Culture and History of Health Policy Required Readings
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- health policy
- organization of care
- institutional theory
- medical sociology
- history of medicine, politics and policy
- access to care
- insurance coverage
- health disparities, poverty
- health, women's health
- substance abuse, alcoholism, drug addition
- mixed methods, longitudinal research
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Laura Schmidt, PhD, is an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the
Philip R. Lee
Institute for Health Policy Studies and the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine. Her research program broadly focuses on the social dimensions of health and illness, with an emphasis on the political and organizational contexts in which health care is provided. Substantively, she studies several areas of concern in health policy today. A major strand of her research agenda has focused on the health care market, including studies of for-profit health care and her book on the history of procompetitive health care initiatives, which is currently under contract with Princeton University Press.
Since 1999, she has also served as Principal Investigator for the Welfare Client Longitudinal Study (WCLS), a multi-cohort longitudinal study funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In this capacity, she directs a multi-disciplinary team that is tracking change in the service environment under welfare reform, and its consequences for health and access to care among low-income people in California. This work provides insight into the implementation of welfare reform policies targeting addiction and the consequences of policy changes for recipients of public aid. Another strand of her research focuses on how economic and racial disparities, social exclusion and poverty influence health and access to care. Currently, she has the privilege of thinking and writing about these issues in the broader context of international development. Along with three international scholars, she has been collaborating on a background paper for the UN/WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health headed by Dr. Michael Marmot.
Dr. Schmidt’s publications contribute to several substantive areas, including the organization of health care, access to care, and the cultural and socioeconomic context in which disease processes unfold. Her recent research analyzes the foundations of the current health care market in America and its changing organization. Her published studies draw upon a range of social science and epidemiological methods, including longitudinal analyses conducted over long windows of time, cross-sectional surveys and multi-level analyses, as well as historical and ethnographic methods. A hallmark of her research is the use of epidemiological approaches to study patient populations, in combination with qualitative and historical research on the health care organizations that provide care.
Dr. Schmidt’s current teaching includes the continued mentoring post-doctoral fellows through the Institute for Health Policy Studies fellowship program. She is instructor for the course, Culture and History of Health Policy. This course introduces central themes in theories of the policy process through the use of case studies drawn from the recent history of health policymaking in America.
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Co-Investigator/PI of subcontract) Advancing Recovery: National Evaluation Plan.
(Collaboration with University of Georgia and Oregon Health Sciences University). 09/01/06 – 8/31/10
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Principal Investigator) Understanding Substance Abuse and Child Welfare Involvement in a Welfare Sample. 06/01/07 – 07/31/08
NIH/NIAAA R21 AA016124 (Co-Investigator/Mentor for Dr. Anne Lown) Women on Welfare: Violence, Alcohol Use, Service Use and Welfare. 04/01/07 – 3/31/09
NIH/NIAAA - Alcohol Problems and Service Dynamics After Welfare Reform
NIH/NIAAA - Epidemiology of Alcohol Problems ( National Research Center Grant Years 26-31): “Alcohol Research Group, Public Health Institute.)”
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services, in collaboration with Brandeis University - Financing, Cost and Access to Substance Abuse Treatment
NIH/NIAAA - Serving Homeless Clients with ADM Problems
NIH/NIDA, in collaboration with New England Research Institutes - Multi-Level Analyses of the NESARC to Explain Treatment Gaps
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