Kelsey Owsley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and a member of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. Dr. Owsley’s research focuses on health policy issues and hospital decision-making related to access to care for safety-net populations. She aims to use rigorous quasi-experimental research designs to inform policies designed to efficiently improve access to care for low-income and rural populations, particularly for patients diagnosed with cancer. She received her doctorate in Health Services Research from the Colorado School of Public Health and her MPH in Health Promotion and Policy from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Dr. Owsley received AcademyHealth’s 2023 Outstanding Dissertation Award and has published in top health services and policy journals including Health Affairs, JAMA Health Forum, and the Journal of Health Economics. She has presented her work at the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics Seminar Series and was featured on the Health Affairs podcast: A Health Podyssey.
Kelsey Owsley is a 2024 grantee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Data for Action program, managed by AcademyHealth.