The Dissertation Award honors an outstanding scientific contribution from a doctoral thesis in health services research. Judging by the innovative research, this doctoral candidate shows exceptional promise as a health services research.

Dissertation Award Recipients
(training program and title of dissertation)

2008

J. Michael McWilliams, M.D.
Harvard University
“Importance of Health Insurance for Adults with Chronic Conditions”

2007

Benjamin Le Cook, M.P.H., Ph.D.
Harvard University
“The Hunt for the Right Counterfactual: Estimating Disparities in Minority Health Care”

2006

Benjamin Sommers, Ph.D.
Harvard University
"The Dynamics of Public and Private Health Insurance in the United States"

2005

Rachel M. Werner, M.D., Ph.D.
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
“Testing theories of discrimination in health care: evidence from New York’s CABG report card”

2004

Anita L. Tucker, D.B.A.
Harvard University Business School
“Organizational learning from operational failures”

2003

Jill R. Horwitz, Ph.D., J.D., M.P.P.
Ph.D. Program in Health Policy
Harvard University
“Corporate Form of Hospitals: Behavior and Obligations”

2002

Denys T. Lau, Ph.D.
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
“Potentially inappropriate medication prescriptions among geriatric nursing home residents: its scope, risk factors, and health consequences”

2001

Erik Michiel van Barneveld, Ph.D.
Erasmus University
“Risk sharing as a supplement to imperfect capitation in health insurance: a trade-off between selection and efficiency”

Courtney Harold Van Houtven, Ph.D.
Department of Health Policy and Administration
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Informal care and elderly health care use”

2000

Glen Mays, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Department of Health Policy and Administration
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Managed care contracting and community health care performance”