Anuar Assamidanov, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Scholar in Health Economics at the University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on evaluating the impact of health policies—particularly Medicaid health homes and telehealth policies—on behavioral health outcomes, including mental health service access and substance use treatment. He specializes in applied econometrics, causal inference, and the analysis of large administrative and survey datasets. Anuar has collaborated with interdisciplinary teams across institutions to examine how policy changes affect vulnerable populations. He is passionate about bridging research and policy, fostering peer collaboration among early-career scholars, and advancing equitable, evidence-based behavioral health systems.