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Biography

 Dr. Donohue is Associate Professor and Vice Chair for research in the Department of Health Policy and Management, in the Graduate School of Public Health. She is the Director of the Medicaid Research Collaborative and the Co-Director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Policy and Prescribing (CP3). She holds secondary appointments in the Clinical and Translational Science Institute and is a faculty affiliate in the Health Policy Institute and in the Center for Bioethics and Health Law. Donohue earned a PhD in health policy from Harvard University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in pharmaceutical policy research at Harvard Medical School.

Donohue conducts research on insurance coverage, financing, and delivery of health care with a focus on use of prescription drugs and mental health care. She has studied the impact of policy changes on access to care and the quality and efficiency of care for chronic conditions in Medicare, Medicaid and commercial insurance. Her research evaluating the impact of the Medicare Part D drug benefit has been published in leading journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, and Health Affairs. She is currently conducting epidemiologic, economic and policy research for the Pennsylvania Medicaid program. Donohue also conducts research on the impact of the Affordable Care Act on access to care, regional variation in health care use and spending, and studies the organizational, industry and policy influences on physician prescribing behavior. Donohue has been principal investigator on grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute and the Fine Foundation. She is a co-investigator on grants from the National Institute on Aging and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Research Interest

 Older adults; Prevention; Public health

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