Research Areas
Susan Olson-Allen:
- Public health and the built environment
- Policy development in public health
- Program evaluation
- Health policy - analysis, development and implementation of health policy
- Health management - the organization, financing and management of health programs and services
- Development
and use electronic health information exchange capabilities
- Health information infrastructure for individual health, health care and population health
- People, organizational and social issues in health
- Network science applications in health
- Complex adaptive networks in health
- Health transaction cost economics
- Social network analysis
- Health care policy and management
- System-oriented inquiry/methodologies including:
- System dynamics modeling,
- Agent-based modeling
- Network
analysis.
- Health
policy research with a focus on expanding coverage for the uninsured
- Strengthening the safety net and improving health care access for the uninsured
- Reimbursement reform and physician practice effectiveness and
efficiency, particularly in the application of health informatics
- Healthy Communities Approach to Improving Quality of Life
- Methods for Assessing Generic Quality of Life
- Determining Minimally Important Differences in Quality of Life Measures
- Clinical Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases
- Sequential Screening for Depressive Symptoms
- Pay for Performance
- Complexity and Mindfulness: Convergence of Science and Asian Wisdom Traditions
- Tetradic Network Technique (TNT) for modeling complex systems and networks
- Transaction cost economics
- Social network analysis
- Complexity science, including dynamic and agent based models
- Social production and typologies of information commons
- Communicable disease control
- Public health management and administration
- Effectiveness of preventive services on a population basis
- Community collaboration to address complex health issues in diverse communities
- Use of information technology to increase quality-and to decrease costs-of health programs and services
- Health equity and social justice
- Social determinants of health
- Stress and disease
- Public health management and practice
- Sexual addiction
