Bio
Keisha Solomon is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Howard University. She is an applied microeconomist, with research interests in mental health, substance use, policy evaluation, labor economics, and health equity. Her recent research examines the effect of hospital- and state-level programs/policies that may influence access to substance use disorder treatment or mental healthcare on health behaviors and socioeconomic factors – including education and crime. Her research examines the effect of social policies on health behaviors and the human capital accumulation of individuals of vulnerable populations. Solomon has published in the Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Health Economics, and JAMA Health Forum.
Solomon received her PhD in economics at Temple University. Her dissertation examined the effect of mental healthcare policies and family-specific characteristics on health and educational outcomes. After her doctoral studies, Solomon completed postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (BSPH). At BSPH, she worked with an interdisciplinary research team on the rapid-cycle evaluation of innovative policy strategies to address the opioid crisis as part of a major new program called the Bloomberg Opioid Prevention Initiative.