Health Economics

What We Do

Health Economics, within the Research Department at the Milken Institute, focuses on the implications of resource constraints, regulatory environments, and behavioral factors on health via three programs: Public Health Risks, Health Disparity, and Health Policy Evaluation.

Data Viz
Distance as an Obstacle to Clinical Trial Access: Who Is Affected and Why It Matters
Explore the distance from any county in the United States to the nearest county containing a Phase 2 or 3 clinical trial that was run between 2017 and 2023.
Explore Map
COVID-19 Community Explorer

Explore geographic clusters of communities affected by the pandemic and their socioeconomic, demographic, and health-related features.

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Featured Reports

Distance as an Obstacle to Clinical Trial Access: Who Is Affected and Why It Matters
June 24, 2024
Distance as an Obstacle to Clinical Trial Access: Who Is Affected and Why It Matters

Andrew Friedson, PhD, Bumyang Kim, PhD, Maggie Switek, PhD, Lawson Mansell
Projected Prevalence and Cost of Dementia: 2022 Update
November 1, 2022
Projected Prevalence and Cost of Dementia: 2022 Update

Claude Lopez, PhD, Bumyang Kim, PhD, Diane Ty, Rajiv Ahuja
The Community Explorer: Informing Policy with County-Level Data
April 10, 2021
The Community Explorer: Informing Policy with County-Level Data

Claude Lopez, PhD, Brittney Butler
How to Identify Health Innovation Gaps?
January 5, 2021
How to Identify Health Innovation Gaps?

Claude Lopez, PhD, Hyeongyul Roh, PhD, Brittney Butler
Weighing Down America: 2020 Update
December 1, 2020
Weighing Down America: 2020 Update

Claude Lopez, PhD, Joseph Bendix, Ken Sagynbekov, PhD
Health and the Gender Gap
June 6, 2019
Health and the Gender Gap

Demographic Reporting and Mix in Clinical Trials
November 6, 2023
Demographic Reporting and Mix in Clinical Trials

Andrew Friedson, PhD, Bumyang Kim, PhD
Maternal Mortality Among Vulnerable US Communities
August 1, 2023
Maternal Mortality Among Vulnerable US Communities

Katherine Sacks, PhD, Lawson Mansell, Brooke Shearon
Health Literacy in the United States: Enhancing Assessments and Reducing Disparities
May 17, 2022
Health Literacy in the United States: Enhancing Assessments and Reducing Disparities

Bumyang Kim, PhD, Katherine Sacks, PhD

Research and Analysis

Distance as an Obstacle to Clinical Trial Access: Who Is Affected and Why It Matters
June 24, 2024
Distance as an Obstacle to Clinical Trial Access: Who Is Affected and Why It Matters

Andrew Friedson, PhD, Bumyang Kim, PhD, Maggie Switek, PhD, Lawson Mansell
Maternal Mortality Among Vulnerable US Communities
August 1, 2023
Maternal Mortality Among Vulnerable US Communities

Katherine Sacks, PhD, Lawson Mansell, Brooke Shearon
Health Literacy in the United States: Enhancing Assessments and Reducing Disparities
May 17, 2022
Health Literacy in the United States: Enhancing Assessments and Reducing Disparities

Bumyang Kim, PhD, Katherine Sacks, PhD
The Community Explorer: Informing Policy with County-Level Data
April 10, 2021
The Community Explorer: Informing Policy with County-Level Data

Claude Lopez, PhD, Brittney Butler
Weighing Down America: 2020 Update
December 1, 2020
Weighing Down America: 2020 Update

Claude Lopez, PhD, Joseph Bendix, Ken Sagynbekov, PhD
How to Identify Health Innovation Gaps?
January 5, 2021
How to Identify Health Innovation Gaps?

Claude Lopez, PhD, Hyeongyul Roh, PhD, Brittney Butler
Health Disparities in China: Mapping the Way Forward
June 25, 2020
Health Disparities in China: Mapping the Way Forward

, Perry Wong
Lessons of the Millennium Development Goals
July 22, 2019
Lessons of the Millennium Development Goals

Childhood and Maternal Health in the Middle East and North Africa
February 4, 2018
Childhood and Maternal Health in the Middle East and North Africa

Gender-Based Health Disparities: A State-Level Study of the American Adult Population
May 12, 2019
Gender-Based Health Disparities: A State-Level Study of the American Adult Population

State Health Inefficiencies
July 22, 2019
State Health Inefficiencies

Marlon Graf, Perry Wong, Ross Devol
Beyond the Limits of Traditional Health Care: A State-Level Systematic Review of Community Health Programs in the United States
May 18, 2019
Beyond the Limits of Traditional Health Care: A State-Level Systematic Review of Community Health Programs in the United States

Marlon Graf
Health and the Gender Gap
June 6, 2019
Health and the Gender Gap