Events
Health Services Research Colloquium
In partnership with the Department of Health Policy and Administration, CHCPR co-sponsors this semester-long colloquium series that includes speakers both internal and external to Penn State. Speakers vary from a wide variety of disciplines and present current topics in the area of health services research.
Health Services Research Colloquium
SPRING 2026
(No prior registration is necessary)
Mondays at 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM / Campus Location Below
Lectures will be held in-person and remotely via Zoom
https://psu.zoom.us/j/92267150663
Or Telephone:
+1 305 224 1968 (US Toll)
Meeting ID: 922 6715 0663
Website: https://hhd.psu.edu/chcpr/events
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Monday, February 9
Room 110 Ford Building |
Cory Capps, PhD Partner Bates White Economic Consulting Email: cory.capps@bateswhite.com Website: https://www.bateswhite.com/people-Cory-Capps.html VIDEO LINK: “Anti-Trust Enforcement in Health Care Markets: Practical Lessons for Economists” |
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Monday, March 2
Room 110 Ford Building |
Matthew Eisenberg, PhD Associate Professor Health Policy and Management (primary), Carey Business School (joint), Mental Health (joint) Johns Hopkins University Email: eisenberg@jhu.edu Website: https://publichealth.jhu.edu/faculty/3217/matthew-d-eisenberg Title: “Housing Policy and Substance Use Disorder Treatment” |
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Monday, March 30
Room 110 Ford Building
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Partha Deb, PhD Professor Department of Economics Hunter College, CUNY Email: partha.deb@hunter.cuny.edu Website: https://hunter.cuny.edu/people/partha-deb/ Title: “Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Estimation for Staggered Difference-in-Differences Designs in Repeated Cross-Sections” |
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Monday, April 20
Room 110 Ford Building |
Risha Gidwani, DrPH, MA, BA Visiting Associate Professor Medicine-Health Care Policy Research University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Email: RISHA.GIDWANI@cuanschutz.edu Website: https://som.cuanschutz.edu/Profiles/Faculty/Profile/38478 Title: "The Impact of Insurance Benefit Design on Quality of Care for Chronic Illness: Evidence from Employer-Sponsored Insurance" |
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Monday, April 27
Room 110 Ford Building |
Yashaswini Singh, PhD Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice Brown University Email: yashaswini_singh@brown.edu Website: https://vivo.brown.edu/display/ysingh11 Title: “Stress Testing Markets for Cardiac Care” |
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Monday, September 15, 2025
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Conor Ryan, PhD Assistant Professor of Economics Penn State College of Liberal Arts 505 Kern Building, University Park, PA Email: cxr5626@psu.edu Website: https://econ.la.psu.edu/people/cxr5626/ VIDEO LINK: "Provider Concentration and Prices: Evidence from Transparency in Coverage Data." |
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Monday, September 22, 2025
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Tracee Saunders, PhD Associate Professor, SSRI Co-Funded Faculty Department of Political Science, PSU College of Liberal Arts 439 Susan Welch Liberal Arts Building, University Park Email: tms7421@psu.edu Website: https://polisci.la.psu.edu/people/tracee-saunders/ VIDEO LINK: “Contraception in the Crosshairs? Federalism, Contraception Deserts, and the Politics of Title” |
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Monday, October 13, 2025
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Nate Apathy, PhD Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management University of Maryland School of Public Health College Park, Maryland Email: nca@umd.edu Website: https://sph.umd.edu/people/nate-apathy VIDEO LINK: “Recent Developments in Understanding Physician Documentation” |
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Monday, October 27, 2025
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Denise Lillvis, PhD, MPA Assistant Professor Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Email: dlillvis@buffalo.edu |
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Monday, November 10, 2025
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Yunxi Zhang, PhD, MA, MS Associate Professor Department of Public Health Services, College of Medicine Penn State University Email: yzhang12@pennstatehealth.psu.edu Website: https://pure.psu.edu/en/persons/yunxi-zhang VIDEO LINK: "Lessons from the Field: Telehealth Implementation, Evaluation, and Medicare Policy" |
