Associate Dean of Research, CPH
Professor, HAP
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Biography
Dr. Cuellar, Professor of Health Administration and Policy, has extensive research experience in health care systems, payer innovations, Medicaid policy, mental health, and justice involved populations. A health policy researcher, her contributions include work on evaluating new organizational forms, such as hospital systems and physician alliances and their effects on quality, efficiency, costs, prices, and equity. She is currently engaged in research related to Medicaid perinatal care, equity, and payment. In other work she has examined the intersection of behavioral health and the justice system; Medicaid policies and their impact on justice-involved youth and youth with behavioral health problems; on mental health courts as an innovative alternative for justice-involved juveniles; and on health care services for incarcerated youth and adults returning to the community. Her work has been funded by NIMH, NICHD, AHRQ, NIJ, SAMHSA, and private foundations including National Institute for Health Care Management, Robert Wood Johnson, and MacArthur.
Dr. Cuellar was recently appointed to聽's Improving the Health and Wellbeing of Children and Youth through Health Care System Transformation committee.聽 In addition, she serves as Chair of the (CPSTF) to which she was appointed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The聽CPSTF is an independent, nonfederal panel of public health and prevention experts that provides recommendations and findings on programs, services, and other interventions to protect and improve population health.
Dr. Cuellar is a Research Associate in , and is affiliated with the Mason , a forum for policy-relevant research using micro-economic and micro-econometric methods hosted by GMU鈥檚 Schar School of Policy and Government.
Previously, Dr. Cuellar served on the NASEM Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States which聽聽in 2017. Previously, she was a member of a national collaborative Mental Health Policy network supported by the MacArthur Foundation. In 2005-2006, she spent the academic year as a visiting economist to the U.S. Department of Justice.聽Dr. Cuellar serves on the editorial board of聽Medical Care Research and Review聽and is co-editor of the Economic Grand Rounds column in the journal聽Psychiatric Services.聽
Dr. Cuellar served as Interim Associate Dean for Research in the College of Health and Human Services in 2018/2019.聽Prior to joining 亚洲AV Dr. Cuellar was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University.聽Her work has been published in several journals, including聽Journal of Policy Analysis and Management,聽Journal of Health Economics,聽American Journal of Public Health,聽Health Affairs,聽Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine,聽American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Services,聽American Journal of Preventive Medicine,聽JAMA Network Open, and聽Journal of General Internal Medicine聽among others.
Research
Research Interests
- Payer Innovations
- Medicaid Policy
- Health care delivery systems
- Physician and hospital integration
- Mental health and substance use
- Criminal justice systems
Publications
Honors and Awards
- Calderone Researcher Prize for Junior Faculty, 2005, Columbia University
Affiliations
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Degrees
- PhD, Health Services and Policy Analysis, Economics Concentration, University of California, Berkeley
- MBA, University of Texas at Austin
- BA with Highest Honors, University of Texas at Austin