Jonah Kushner

Jonah Kushner

Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND; Ph.D. Student, Pardee RAND Graduate School

Expertise

Jonah Kushner is a Ph.D. student at the Pardee RAND Graduate School and an assistant policy researcher at RAND. His interests include workforce development and the future of work; affordable housing and homelessness; and health care delivery, health care payment, and social determinants of health.

Prior to joining Pardee RAND, he was a principal research associate at Oregon Health & Science University’s Center for Health Systems Effectiveness, where he led evaluations of Medicaid demonstration waivers in Oregon and Washington. He has also conducted policy research at a state Medicaid agency, a health insurance exchange, and a labor union.

Education

M.P.P., The University of Chicago; B.A. in political science, Reed College

Selected Work

  • Kushner, Jonah, Jordan Byers, Shauna Petchel, Deborah J. Cohen, Karen Jensen, Katie Bittinger, and K. John McConnell, "Washington’s Medicaid Transformation Project: Engaging the Health Care and Social Service Sectors to Improve Health Care Delivery and Address the Social Determinants of Health," Healthcare, 9(3), 2021
  • Kushner, Jonah, K. John McConnell, Kyle Tracy, Matthew Goerg, Anna Levy, Stephan Lindner, Jennifer D. Hall, et al., Medicaid Transformation Project Evaluation: Baseline Report, Center for Health Systems Effectiveness, Oregon Health & Science University, 2020
  • Jonah Kushner, K. John McConnell, "Addressing Social Determinants of Health through Medicaid: Lessons from Oregon," Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law, 44(6), 2019
  • Kushner, Jonah, Kyle Tracy, Bonnie Lind, Stephanie Renfro, Ruth Rowland, and K. John McConnell, Evaluation of Oregon’s 2012-2017 Medicaid Waiver, Center for Health Systems Effectiveness, Oregon Health & Science University, 2017

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