Public Health

Professor Busch is a Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and former chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Yale School of Public Health. Professor Busch’s research examines the effects of policies and regulations on health care cost and quality. Most of her work focuses on behavioral health. Professor Busch’s work has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Drug Abuse and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She has an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, an S.M.

Dr. Cohen is an infectious disease epidemiologist whose primary research focus is tuberculosis. He is particularly interested in understanding how TB drug-resistance and medical comorbidities such as HIV frustrate current efforts to control epidemics, with an ultimate goal of developing more effective approaches to limit the morbidity caused by this pathogen. Dr. Cohen’s training is in epidemiology and clinical medicine, and his work includes mathematical modeling, fieldwork, and analysis of programmatic data.

Kim Gannon (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in the Yale School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management. Her research explores drug policy, particularly punitive policies passed as a reaction to the fentanyl-driven overdose crisis. Specifically, she studies the influence of public opinion on formation and implementation of these policies, as well as their unintended consequences on the health and well-being of people who use drugs, particularly in communities of color, once implemented.