Erin Strumpf
Biography
Erin Strumpf, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill University. She received her Ph.D. in Health Policy from Harvard University and was a pre-doctoral fellow in Health and Aging with the National Bureau for Economic Research and the U.S. National Institute on Aging. She currently holds a Research Scholar Career Award from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé and the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec.
Her research in health economics focuses on the impact of health and health care policies on spending and health outcomes overall, and in disparities across groups. She has completed several research projects analyzing the impacts of policy changes on individual behavior, health care service use, and health outcomes using large databases and methods for causal inference to evaluate health interventions. Dr. Strumpf’s current research agenda focuses on measuring the impacts of policies designed to improve the delivery of health care services and improve health outcomes.