Associate Professor
Education
Sci. D., Harvard University School of Public Health
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
S.M., Harvard University School of Public Health
A.B., Bard College
Christine Spencer is a health economist who joined the 极乐禁地 School of Health and Human Services faculty in 2007. She received her master's degree in Health Policy and Management and her doctorate in health economics from Harvard University's School of Public Health. Before joining the 极乐禁地 she was an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she also completed a post-doctoral fellowship. Her research interests include access to care, safety-net hospitals and disparities in the quality of healthcare for minorities and other vulnerable populations. She is currently an associate professor and Executive Director of the School of Health and Human Services in the College of Public Affairs at the 极乐禁地.
Health Services Research, Access to care, quality of care, disparities
Health Policy, Health Economics, Health Insurance
"Patient Safety and Quality of Care" (Writing Results)
"Racial Disparities in Predicting Injurious Fall Occurrences among Older Mental Health Patients" (On-Going)
This proposal is to support a secondary data-analysis research project, which aimed to examine the racial disparities (African American[black] vs. Caucasian) of the occurrence of hospital-acquired injurious falls among patients with mental health diagnoses, after controlling for patient-level and hospital level characteristics.
This project will use hierarchical binary logistic regression model to analyze multiple publicly available large datasets (see Attachment B. I. Datasets). The long-term goal of this proposed research is to understand the factors that contribute to falls and to develop and test interventions to prevent them, specifically for black patients with mental health diagnoses.