In The Lab

Neelam is a Population Health PhD student, focusing on health services & policy. Her research interests lie in understanding how facility ownership influences health outcomes and care quality, particularly in private practices and skilled nursing facilities. She works with Brady on projects related to SNFs, integration, and health policy.

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PhD Student in Sociology, Northeastern University

Danielle's research interests lie at the intersection of food policy and health policy. She works with Brady and Gary on several projects related to hospital-physician integration. She brings expertise in both qualitative research and flamenco dancing.

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Mengyuan is a Population Health PhD student at Northeastern University, and her research interests focus on healthcare policy—particularly Medicare—and its impact on cardiovascular care, comparative and cost-effectiveness analysis, and methods for using administrative data in health services research. She works with Brady and with Professor Nasim Ferdows on projects related to health care delivery for rural patients and provider integration.

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Brady served as an external committee member for Alex's dissertation at Northwestern University (chair: Professor Neil Jordan), which applied causal inference methods to hospital-physician vertical integration in Virginia. She co-authored a series of papers with Brady, Professor Gary Young, and Farbod Alinezhad about the integration of orthopedic surgeons and its effects on patient care. 

Alex joined the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) as a full-time research economist in 2025.

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Farbod completed his dissertation under the direction of Brady (chair) and Professor Gary Young (committee member). As a trained physician, Farbod combines a clinical perspective with advanced data analytics. He led the statistical analysis of several papers while at Northeastern. For his dissertation, he used machine learning techniques to better identify causal treatment effects. He now works at consulting firm Analysis Group as an Associate in their health care practice.

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Director of Epidemiology Analytics, Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. 

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Ngoc worked under the direction of Professors Gary Young (chair) and Brady Post (committee member). Her dissertation centered on hospital-physician vertical integration, examining quality performance under alternative payment models (published in Medical Care), site-neutral payment policy (forthcoming at Health Affairs), and care for cardiovascular patients (forthcoming at JAMA Network Open). She graduated from Northeastern with her PhD in 2024.

Research Assistant, Harvard Department of Health Care Policy

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Asa worked under Brady's direction on projects related to patient satisfaction and hospital-physician vertical integration, leading to special expertise in Medicare survey data and a first-author manuscript submitted for peer review. Asa graduated with his BS in Economics from Northeastern in 2024.

BS, Business Administration, 2025, Northeastern University

Lauren worked with Brady as both as a Teaching Assistant for a course on Healthcare Policy and Administration as well as a Research Assistant. Her professional interests include emerging healthcare technologies and operational improvements in delivery systems. She joined Guidepoint in August as a Healthcare Client Service Associate where she coordinates the subject matter expertise needs of institutional healthcare investors.

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BS, Political Science and Economics, 2025, Northeastern University

Isabella began working with Brady in May 2023. She has worked with Brady on the topics of hospital-physician integration, care fragmentation, and patient satisfaction. Isabella is now pursuing a master's degree in health economics from the London School of Economics.

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