Subcommittee Member: Mireille Jacobson
Mireille Jacobson, Ph.D., M.A.
Associate Professor
The Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
Co-Director
Aging and Cognition Program
Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics
University of Southern California
Mireille Jacobson, Ph.D., M.A., is an associate professor in the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, a co-director of the Program on Aging and Cognition at the University of Southern California’s Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, and a research associate in the Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Dr. Jacobson received a Ph.D. and an M.A. in economics from Harvard University. She was a National Institute of Mental Health Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School from 2001 to 2002. She was also a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Jacobson has a diverse portfolio of research united by an interest in understanding how healthcare policies affect well-being. Much of her work focuses on the supply side of U.S. healthcare markets, analyzing the effects of direct supply changes (e.g., hospital closures) on access to care and the impact of Medicare reimbursement policy on cancer treatment and outcomes.
