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Health Literacy in the United States: Enhancing Assessments and Reducing Disparities
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Katherine Sacks
Associate Director, Health Economics
Katherine Sacks is an associate director in health economics on the research team at the Milken Institute. Her research concerns health equity, health disparities, and the social determinants of health, focusing particularly on adverse maternal birth outcomes, as well as the effects of the social safety net on measures of population health. She also serves as a consultant on a NIDA-funded R01 grant, looking at social safety net programs as interventions to reduce opioid-related harms in reproductive-age women.
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Bumyang Kim
Associate Director, Health Economics
Bumyang Kim is an associate director of health economics for the Research team at the Milken Institute. He specializes in data-driven evidence-based quantitative research by applying real-world data analytics to the healthcare delivery system.
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