Our Team
Cameron Kaplan, PhDDirectorkaplanc@usc.edu |
Cameron Kaplan: Cameron Kaplan, PhD is an Associate Professor of Medicine and a health economist and health services researcher. His work focuses on the impact of health policy and insurance benefit design on healthcare utilization, health outcomes, and disparities. He has extensive expertise in econometrics and the analysis of large databases, especially claims data. He has been the PI of several large grants from the National Institutes of Aging and the American Cancer Center, and he is currently the PI of a U01 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities focused on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on disparities in use of primary and preventive care services. He has published widely on topics including access to care and social determinants of health, medication adherence, smoking, cancer health disparities, and high deductible health plans. Dr. Kaplan received his PhD in Economics from UC Santa Barbara. |
Alissa Maier, MPHDirector, Programs and Quality Improvement |
Alissa Maier, MPH is the Director of Programs and Quality Improvement at the Gehr Family Center for Health Systems Science and Innovation in the Department of Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. She has spent most her career working on chronic disease prevention and management programming at national nonprofit organizations. Her passion and interest in quality improvement inspired her to join the Gehr Center team. She holds a BS in Psychology from the University of Dayton and an MPH with an emphasis on health Education and Promotion from the University of Cincinnati. |
Michael Cousineau, Dr.PHSenior Advisercousinea@med.usc.edu |
Michael Cousineau: Michael R. Cousineau, DPH, is a researcher at the Gehr Center and a Professor of Clinical Preventive Medicine in the Departments of Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the USC Price School of Public Policy. He attended University of California, Berkeley and received his doctorate from the UCLA School of Public health. Dr. Cousineau studies health policy, the determinants of health care utilization for low-income populations, models of health insurance coverage, health care disparities, effectiveness of outreach and enrollment systems for public insurance programs, the operation of safety-net providers including community health centers and public hospitals, and health needs of vulnerable populations including the homeless and immigrants. Dr. Cousineau teaches health policy in the Masters in Public Health Program at USC and in the Keck School of Medicine. He has published in health Affairs, Medical Care, health Services Research, the American Journal of Public health, and Academic Medicine. |
Barbara Turner, MD, MSED, MACPSenior Adviserturnerb@usc.edu |
Barbara Turner: Barbara Turner, MD, MSED, MACP is a Clinical Professor of Medicine and a practicing general internist with over 30 years of experience in health disparities research and community-partnered research. In 2010, she established the Center for Research to Advance Community health (ReACH) as a partnership between the University of Texas (UT) health San Antonio and the UT School of Public health (UTSPH). Her research has focused on health disparities through administrative database studies, randomized trials, and implementation & dissemination projects. She has been principal investigator (PI) on four federal- and state-funded projects to implement Hepatitis C Virus screening and management in diverse primary care practices. Dr. Turner has over 175 peer-reviewed publications and editorials from research funded by the NIH, the Agency for health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ), Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Foundation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Substance Abuse and Mental health Services Administration, and the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Dr. Turner has served as Regent of the American College of Physicians (ACP) and President of the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM). In addition to working with the Gehr Center, Dr. Turner edits the Internal Medicine volume of Dynamed, an online medical textbook. |
Todd Schneberk, MDFaculty |
Todd Schneberk is an assistant professor of clinical emergency medicine and an assistant program director of the LA General Medical Center Emergency Medicine Residency program. He completed his residency in emergency medicine at LA General Medical Center and subsequently earned a fellowship in health policy and research at UCLA. His research and advocacy interests include social determinants of health, immigration status as a health barrier, opioid use disorder and leveraging the Emergency Department to address upstream factors affecting the health and stability of vulnerable populations. |
Albert Farias, PhD, MPHFaculty |
Albert Farias is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Preventive Medicine is a health services researcher who is devoted to helping eliminate racial/ethnic disparities in cancer outcomes by furthering our understanding of how evidence-based cancer prevention strategies and treatment are delivered within the health care system and how that influences patient adherence. His research not only identifies health care inequalities but identifies health care-related factors that explain racial/ethnic disparities in cancer outcomes. To carry out this research, Dr. Farias applies a variety of complex methodologies and analytic approaches. His research has focused on the use of cancer registry and medical claims data such as the SEER/Medicare-linked data and more recently the use of the rich SEER/Medicare/CAHPS-linked dataset to identify health care inequalities in patient reported outcomes and health care experiences. Dr. Farias possess a PhD in Health Services Research from the University of Washington, a Masters in Public Health from Columbia University, and a BS in Biology from UCLA. |
Jennifer Tsui, PhD, MPHFaculty |
Jennifer Tsui, PhD, MPH is an Associate Professor in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences the Keck School of Medicine at USC and a member of the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is a health services researcher and cancer prevention and control scientist with a focus on reducing inequities in cancer prevention, cancer care access, quality, and outcomes through implementation of evidence-based strategies in diverse communities and health care settings. She frequently utilizes mixed methods and large administrative health care data to understand multilevel influences on cancer care quality among medically underserved racial/ethnic minority populations. Dr. Tsui is currently the PI of a multi-year NCI-funded study to examine stakeholder experiences with HPV vaccination and implementation of evidence-based strategies for HPV vaccination in safety-net settings. She is also a PI on a National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities study to examine structural racism and healthcare inequities among cervical cancer survivors. |
Sue Kim, PhD, MPHFaculty |
Sue Kim, PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses and is the co-Director of Health Services and Policy concentration for the MPH program. In addition to teaching courses in health care delivery and quality in health care, her research projects have focused on health care systems and management, health care reform and policy, and chronic disease management, particularly with emphasis on cancer prevention and health care utilization among low-income and ethnically diverse communities. She has expert knowledge of health care organizational and delivery factors that affect quality of care, and disparities in health outcomes among diverse populations. She also has expertise in research methodology, primary data collection, as well as working with complex data sets, including cancer registries, survey data, and claims data. Dr. Kim is trained as a health services researcher and health economist. She received both MPH and Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley. |