Bio
Madison Ashworth serves as a health economist at the Fletcher Group where she leads numerous research projects related to recovery housing and other recovery support programs. Her research focuses on the intersection of health and behavioral economics, specifically in designing and testing different policies to determine their effectiveness in changing individual behavior and public health outcomes. In her research career, she has been involved in some of the first studies looking at the effect of COVID-19 social distancing policies on public health, economic, and environmental outcomes. She has also led studies determining the important factors relating to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and testing different public health messaging campaigns and financial incentives to increase the uptake of a COVID-19 vaccine. Recently, her research has focused on understanding the economic impacts of recovery support services, evaluating interventions to reduce stigma around recovery housing, and evaluating the effectiveness of different recovery support services for those with substance use disorder. Dr. Ashworth has expertise in designing evaluation protocols, developing survey instruments, implementing data collection processes, completing complex statistical analyses, and using economic modeling for program evaluation.