Mika K. Hamer is a health services researcher, Assistant Professor in the University of Maryland School of Public Health Department of Health Policy and Management, and core faculty in the University of Maryland Center on Aging. Dr. Hamer uses quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods approaches to explore questions at the intersection of health care policy and public health ethics. She studies the effects of health care coverage, insurance benefit design, and reimbursement on health care access and utilization, especially among older adults and people with life-limiting conditions. She holds an MPH and PhD from the Colorado School of Public Health and completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Colorado Center for Bioethics and Humanities.
Mika K. Hamer is 2024 grantee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Data for Action program, managed by AcademyHealth.