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Catherine McLaughlin
Senior Fellow
Senior fellow Catherine McLaughlin is a nationally recognized expert in managed care, market competition, and employer and employee benefit choice.
McLaughlin spearheaded the Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured (ERIU), a seven-year initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to initiate and disseminate research to spark new policy discussions of health coverage issues. She has directed many large-scale studies involving complex surveys on health care issues as well as evaluations of national programs and is a professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
McLaughlin is an elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and the Institute of Medicine, a member of the Council of Health Care Economics and Policy and the Health Research and Educational Trust Board of Trustees, and serves on the editorial board of the journal Health Services Research. She publishes widely in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Health and Social Policy, Health Affairs, Journal of the American Medical Association, and others and is the author of chapters in Frontiers in Health Policy Research, The Political Economy of Health Care Reforms, and International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
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- Areas of Expertise
- Key Projects
- Professional Activities
- Publications
- Managed care
- Market competition
- Employer and employee benefit choice
- Global Assessment of the Value of Health Information Technology for Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Programs
- Evaluation of Healthy San Francisco
- Analysis of Medicare Advantage Enrollment and Disenrollment
- Institute of Medicine committee member for "Integrating Primary Care and Public Health"
- Elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and the Institute of Medicine
- Member of the Council of Health Care Economics and Policy
- Editorial board, Health Services Research
- "Participation in Healthy San Francisco: Trends in Enrollment and Retention" (February 2011)
- "Generic Utilization and Cost-Sharing for Prescription Drugs." In Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research (2010)
- “America’s Uninsured Crisis: Consequences for Health and Health Care.” Institute of Medicine, Committee on Health Insurance Status and Its Consequences (member of committee) (2009)