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Derek Brown

Derek Brown’s research focuses on costs, access to care, quality, and disparities among Medicaid populations—including physician payment, housing instability, and child maltreatment. He also uses discrete choice experiments to analyze preferences for health care and outcomes, such as screening and vaccination. His goal with this work is to improve valuation of health outcomes and policies and to promote better economic evaluation of public health policies.

Brown teaches courses in health economics and health policy in the Master of Public Health program. In addition, Brown is a scholar in the Washington University Institute for Public Health, and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Advancing Health Services, Policy & Economics Research, the Centene Center for Health Transformation, and the Center for Violence and Injury Prevention.

His research has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals including the American Journal of Public Health, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Health Economics, Health Services Research, and Value in Health, among others. Prior to his faculty appointment, he was a research economist at Research Triangle Institute International.

Derek Brown

Areas of Focus:

  • Health economics
  • Medicaid
  • Child abuse and neglect
  • Stated preference methods & health-related quality of life

In The News

Health Insurance Impacts Cancer Stage at Diagnosis in Minority Children
August 2, 2022

Physical Intimate Partner Violence in Colombia Costs $90 Million Annually
June 17, 2022

Graduate Student Senate Honors Brown Faculty, Staff Members for Outstanding Contributions
March 31, 2022

Brown School Awarded Systems for Action Grant to Improve Child Welfare
July 1, 2020

Featured Publications

Repeat Reports Among Cases Reported for Child Neglect: A Scoping Review
Child Abuse and Neglect
2019

Impact of the Affordable Care Act dependent coverage provision on young adult cancer patients by demographic and socioeconomic characteristics
Cancer, Causes, and Control
January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2020