Dr. Miranda Yaver is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of Pittsburgh, where she also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Political Science. In addition to her academic appointment, she is a Healthcare Fellow and Author-in Residence at The Roosevelt Institute, co-leads the Medicaid Working Group and the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the Scholars Strategy Network, and is on the coordinating committee of Defending Public Health. Her research examines administrative burdens and inequities in U.S. health insurance enrollment and utilization, the politics of health reform, and administrative burdens in accessing reproductive health care. Her forthcoming book, Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the U.S. (Cambridge University Press, spring 2026), examines the health policy problem of health insurance coverage denials and their imposition of administrative burdens on patients as well as their physicians through a “rationing of inconvenience” associated with appealing denials. She is currently working on a second book, examining the legal architecture of health insurance inequities – more specifically, the way that ERISA impedes health insurer accountability and impedes states’ ability to promote access to care for most covered workers. Her research has appeared in JAMA-Pediatrics, Lancet Regional Health-Americas, Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, World Medical & Health Policy, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Scientific Reports, and the American Journal of  Political Science, with additional health policy writings in The New York Times, The Washington  Post, The Guardian, MSNBC, The Hill, STATNews, Rewire News, and MedPage Today.