Research Overview
Andrew Ryan, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Public Health and Walsh McDermont Scholar in the Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Ryan has a PhD in Social Policy with a concentration in Health Policy from the Heller School of Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University. Dr. Ryan's research focuses on pay-for-performance and public quality reporting in healthcare, disparities and discrimination in healthcare, policy analysis, and applied econometrics. He currently has a K01 award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to evaluate the effectiveness of pay-for-performance programs and to assess the the use of outcome measures to incentivize performance in these programs. He won the 2009 AcademyHealth Dissertation Award for his dissertation, "The Design of Value Based Purchasing in Medicare: Theory and Empirical Evidence" and the John M. Eisenberg Article-of-the-Year in Health Services Research for "Has Pay-for-Performance Decreased Access for Minority Patients?"
