Kevin Griffith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and an Investigator at the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Veterans Health Administration. He has worked in government at local, state and federal levels, developed a lifelong commitment to encourage policies informed by research and evidence, and uses that evidence to improve incentive design and effectiveness of pay-for-performance programs. His research also focuses on improving access to care especially for our nation’s veterans, Medicaid policy, nursing scope of practice, and alternative payment models for prescription drugs. His work has been published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, including JAMA Internal Medicine, Health Affairs, and Diabetes Care, and has been covered more broadly by NPR, USA Today, Axios and Bloomberg News.

Kevin is also a former Presidential Management Fellow and behavioral research scientist at the U.S. Army and Department of Defense, where he evaluated the costs and outcomes of interventions to improve mental health & resilience in active-duty soldiers. He holds a PhD in Health Services Research (health economics track) from Boston University, and received both a Master of Public Administration (MPA) and BS in Economics from The Ohio State University.

A full CV is available upon request.

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Recent & Highlighted Research

Achola EM, Griffith KN, Wrenn JO, Mitchell CR, Schwartz D, Roumie CL. Injuries From Legal Interventions Involving Conducted Energy Devices. JAMA Intern Med. 2024-04-01. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.8012. PubMed PMID: 38315481 Citation in REDCap PMC10845035.

Steitz BD, Padi-Adjirackor NA, Griffith KN, Reese TJ, Rosenbloom ST, Ancker JS. Impact of notification policy on patient-before-clinician review of immediately released test results. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2023-09-25. doi:10.1093/jamia/ocad126. PubMed PMID: 37403329 Citation in REDCap PMC10531100.

Hooper M, Reinhart M, Dusetzina SB, Walsh C, Griffith KN. Trends in U.S. self-reported health and self-care behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS One. 2023-09-19; 18(9):e0291667. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0291667. PubMed PMID: 37725598 Citation in REDCap PMC10508610.

Dr. Margaret Adgent is a research associate professor in the Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is an epidemiologist with primary research interests in characterizing prenatal and pediatric exposures and their related health effects, particularly in the context of exploring developmental origins of disease. Dr. Adgent's current research activities include investigation of maternal risk factors for pediatric asthma, including prenatal nutrition, stress, pregnancy complications and exposure to environmental contaminants. She also contributes to several pharmacoepidemiology research projects related to prescription medication use during and after pregnancy. Dr. Adgent received her PhD in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed her postdoctoral training at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences at NIH.

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Recent & Highlighted Research

Grossarth S, Osmundson SS, Wiese AD, Phillips SE, Pham A, Leech AA, Patrick SW, Spieker AJ, Grijalva CG, Adgent MA. Maternal Opioid Use Disorder and the Risk of Postneonatal Infant Mortality. JAMA Pediatr. 2023 May 08. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2023.1047.  PubMed PMID: 37155175 Citation in REDCap PMC10167598.

Kyle A. Gavulic joined the Department of Health Policy in 2020. His primary research interest concerns the role of policies on health outcomes and access to care for underserved populations. Focus areas include (1) comparative health policy (2) high-cost pharmaceutical drugs (3) health disparities, and (4) the non-medical determinants of health. His research in LGBTQ health disparities and US prescription drug pricing has led to publications in the American Journal of Public Health and JAMA Health Forum. Currently his work focuses on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexual and gender minority health in addition to examining Medicaid spending of products approved through the Food and Drug Administration’s accelerated approval pathway. Kyle also serves as Editorial Intern of JAMA Health Forum. Kyle holds a Bachelor of Arts in French and Medicine, Health, and Society with a concentration in health economies and policies from Vanderbilt University.