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Catherine McLaughlin
Senior Fellow
Senior fellow Catherine McLaughlin is a nationally recognized expert in access to care, public and private coverage, and health care costs. McLaughlin has directed many large-scale studies involving sophisticated quantitative analyses, case studies, and complex surveys on a range of health care issues. She is a professor emerita at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
McLaughlin is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Social Insurance, and a member of the Council of Health Care Economics and Policy. She serves on the editorial board of the journal Health Services Research. She publishes widely in peer-reviewed journals such as Health Services Research, Health Affairs, Journal of Health Economics, Inquiry, 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 holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
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- Areas of Expertise
- Key Projects
- Professional Activities
- Publications
- Access to care
- Private and public coverage
- Health care costs
- Independence at Home Evaluation for the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Study of the Response of Small Businesses to State Health Insurance Exchanges
- 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
- "Obtaining Providers' 'Buy-In' and Establishing Effective Means of Information Exchange Will be Critical to HITECH's Success" In Health Affairs (March 2012)
- “Primary Care and Public Health: Exploring Integration to Improve Population Health.” Institute of Medicine Committee on Integrating Primary Care and Public Health (member of committee) (2012)
- Nonfinancial Barriers and Access to Care for US Adults." In Health Services Research (February 2012)
- "Treatment and Outcomes for Congestive Heart Failure by Race/Ethnicity in TRICARE." In Medical Care (May 2011)
- "Evaluation of Healthy San Francisco " (August 2011)