Bio
Todd Olmstead is an associate professor of Public Affairs at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Olmstead is the health economist on several large grants funded by the National Institutes of Health in the area of behavioral health. Current research projects include estimating the cost-effectiveness of (a) integrating substance abuse treatment services directly into hospital inpatient units, (b) providing mental health services to low-income pregnant and parenting women living in public housing systems, and (c) providing early childhood obesity prevention programs to children attending Head Start centers. Other projects include estimating the impact of community health paramedic programs on the use of health care services.