{"id":1431,"date":"2025-01-20T16:34:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T21:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ewl\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=1431"},"modified":"2025-01-20T16:34:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T21:34:53","slug":"nicole-mccann","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ewl\/profile\/nicole-mccann\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole McCann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\"><a class=\"in-cell-link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/nicole-mccann-a231b2b6\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nicole McCann<\/a>, is a PhD candidate in Health Services and Policy Research at Boston University School of Public Health, where she serves as a Predoctoral NIDA T32 Research Fellow in the Integrated Care for Addiction, HIV and HCV Research and Education (ICAHRE) program. Her dissertation research focuses on evaluating a Massachusetts Medicaid housing support program among people with opioid use disorder, examining both implementation and healthcare utilization outcomes. Before her doctoral studies, Nicole worked as a Research Assistant at the Medical Practice Evaluation Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, where she conducted health economic modeling using Monte-Carlo simulation of HIV disease and treatment to inform policy decisions, including international analyses in Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Malawi, as well as US-based studies on HIV prevention and treatment costs. She holds a degree in Biology and Science in Society from Wesleyan University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Research Interests: <\/strong>The intersection of social factors, such as housing and nutrition, and health outcomes, with a particular focus on substance use-related outcomes. I use mixed evaluation methods to inform program and policy implementation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23698,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ewl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ewl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ewl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ewl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ewl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ewl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1431\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ewl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}