Marching Toward Coverage: How Women Can Lead the Fight for Universal Healthcare

Rosemarie Day helped lead the launch of health reform in Massachusetts in 2006, which became the model for the Affordable Care Act. She has been working on health reform ever since, and is passionate about universal healthcare and women’s health issues. She is the founder and CEO of Day Health Strategies, a successful mission-driven, woman-owned consulting firm that just entered its 10^th year.  She is also a mother, a breast cancer survivor and an activist. She is the author of the book, Marching Toward Coverage:  How Women Can Lead the Fight for Universal Healthcare (Beacon Press, 2020). Additional bio information can be found here: https://rosemarieday.com/about/

Research Summary: Dr. Gordon’s research evaluates policies that impact low-income populations, with a particular focus on health insurance and access to care. In her recent work, she has applied econometric and causal inference-based methods to assess the impacts of state-level health care policies. She has experience merging and analyzing multiple state all payer claims databases to conduct cross-state comparisons. She utilized these datasets to examine the impact of the Affordable Care Act’s insurance expansions on continuity of coverage and healthcare utilization and the impact of out-of-pocket costs on coverage retention in state Marketplaces. More recently, she has investigated how Medicaid policies affect continuity of care during the perinatal period among low-income women. Her broad interests are in vulnerable populations, health equity, and access to care. Dr. Gordon is the recipient of the Health Policy Scholars Program and Alice S. Hersh Student Scholarship from AcademyHealth, a Dissertation Award from the Agency for Healthcare Research (R36) and the Public Health Impact and Nora Kahn Piore Award from Brown University. Background: Dr. Gordon is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Law, Policy, and Management at Boston University’s School of Public Health. She obtained her doctorate in Health Services Research with a concentration in health economics from the Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at Brown University’s School of Public Health. She holds a MS in Social and Behavioral Sciences from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and a BA in Psychology from New York University.