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Julia Driessen, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management with secondary appointments in Economics and Biomedical Informatics. Dr. Driessen is a health economist by training and her research focuses on how economic incentives can support, or hinder, clinical best practice.

Specific to caregiving, she is interested in investigating the impact of health incentives on caregivers and the utilization of simulation modeling to study policy impacts. Through census matching data, she examines how people behave and the impact on available caregivers as result of health policies such as tax credits, etc. Read more about the Microsimulation Model to Examine Caregiving Project.