Expertise

Areas of Interest:

  • Health economics and policy
  • The impact of state and federal regulations attempting to ease the availability of private and public health insurance for vulnerable populations
  • Health and labor market outcomes

Simon is a nationally known health economist who specializes in applying economic analysis in the context of health insurance and health care policy. Her current research mainly focuses on the impact of health insurance reform on healthcare and labor market outcomes, and on the causes and consequences of the opioid crisis.


Areas:

  • Social Health
  • Public Finance & Economics
  • Policy Analysis
Past Affiliations

Herman B Wells Endowed Professor, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Vice Provost for Health Sciences, School of Public Health-Bloomington, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University (past)

Associate Professor, Cornell Institute for Public Affairs, Cornell University (past)

Assistant Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University (past)

Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University (past)

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University (past)

Institute for Research on Poverty, Social Sciences Division, College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison (past)

Affiliate Faculty, Center for Research on Health Disparities, School of Public Health, Indiana University Bloomington

Communities
Environmental Policy, Public Administration
Degrees
PhD, University of Maryland, Economics, 1999
MA, University of Maryland, Economics, 1998
BA, Hamilton College, Economics and German, 1994