Carrie Fry, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Her current research portfolio focuses on the intersection between health and social policy. She has ongoing research projects that evaluate coverage changes to the Medicaid program for people with mental health and substance use disorders using Medicaid claims data. Dr. Fry is the Tennessee PI for the Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network (MODRN). She’s also working on projects that explore the role of the legal system in the production of health for people under community supervision and returning to the community from jail/prison. She also conducts methodological research that improves health services and health policy research.
State-university partnerships create opportunities for early career researchers to engage in impactful, data-driven policy work that would be difficult to achieve through traditional academic paths alone.