Evan Cole is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh. He also serves as the Research Director of the Medicaid Research Center within the University of Pittsburgh's Health Policy Institute. His areas of expertise are in Medicaid, primary care delivery, and insurance design. He has experience in claims-based research, policy analysis, and both quantitative and qualitative analysis.  Previously, Dr. Cole was the Associate Project Director for Medicaid policy research at the Georgia Health Policy Center at Georgia State University, and was a population health fellow at the University of Wisconsin’s Population Health Institute where he performed Medicaid claims-based research for the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.

Authored by Evan Cole, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Program

Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network: Equity and Quality Improvement for Medicaid Programs (MODRN EQUIP)

AcademyHealth's Evidence-Informed State Health Policy Institute, as the Administrative Coordinating Center for the Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network, supports the University of Pittsburgh and 11 additional state-university research teams to develop opioid use disorder (OUD) quality measures that can be constructed at the provider level, incorporate patient experience, and center health equity.
Topics Delivering Better Care Quality Improvement Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Building Healthy Communities Health Equity