Bio
Dominic Hodgkin is a professor at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. He is also a co-investigator at the Brandeis-Harvard SPIRE Center (Systems Performance Improvement Research and Engagement) and conducts his research at the Heller School’s Schneider Institute for Behavioral Health. Hodgkin is a health economist with over 30 years of experience in health policy analysis and research in academic settings. Most of his research focuses on the effects of different organizing and financing approaches in health care, particularly for mental and substance use disorders. His work typically addresses these questions by applying econometric approaches to the analysis of survey and administrative data, particularly insurance claims. Hodgkin’s recent projects include a study of medication prescribing patterns for mood disorders; work on the sustainability of different novel delivery models for treating substance use and mental disorders; and a study of the use of patient incentives and care navigators to connect Medicaid patients in Massachusetts detoxification programs to specialty substance use disorder treatment. He teaches two classes in the Heller School’s PhD program: Economics of Behavioral Health, and Applied Econometrics, as well as one undergraduate class: Health Economics.