Tamara Beetham, PhD, MPH
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Tamara Beetham, PhD, MPH

Postdoctoral Research Associate Brown School of Public Health

I study healthcare access and provider behavior, particularly in addiction treatment, and the market and policy contexts that shape both.

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I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Brown School of Public Health, in the Department of Health Services, Policy & Practice. My research focuses on where the healthcare system is and isn't working, and on the role of policy in aligning what providers offer with what patients need. I work on access, cost, and quality of care, and on the providers, markets, and policies that shape them.

My research has been published in JAMA, Health Affairs, JAMA Network Open, and Annals of Internal Medicine, and has been recognized among the annual Best and Highest Impact selections by Annals of Internal Medicine, AcademyHealth, and the American Society of Addiction Medicine. It has been covered widely in national media including The New York Times, NPR, The Washington Post, CNN, and Reuters.

It has been cited in policy and clinical guidance from US federal agencies, professional societies, and state governments, including HHS proposed rulemaking on the DATA Waiver Program (42 CFR 8). I have presented findings to the US Senate, the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice, the Joint Commission, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

Research support has come from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the RAND Corporation, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies, including a NIDA R36 dissertation award and a RAND Corporation pilot project on which I served as principal investigator.

I joined Brown after completing my PhD in Health Policy & Management (Economics track) at Yale and my MPH at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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