Sarah Gordon
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Sarah H Gordon, PhD

Assistant Professor, Health Law, Policy & Management - Boston University School of Public Health

(617) 358-1864
gordonsh@bu.edu
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Biography

Sarah Gordon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Law, Policy, and Management at the Boston University School of Public Health where she co-directs the BU Medicaid Policy Lab. She is a health services researcher with expertise in health insurance, access to care, and Medicaid policy. She applies econometric and causal inference-based methods to assess the impacts of state-level health care policies on low-income populations. She has experience merging and analyzing multiple state all payer claims databases and national Medicaid claims to conduct cross-state policy comparisons. She is Principal Investigator of a K01 Career Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health studying the effects of postpartum Medicaid policies on maternal mental health care. She is a faculty advisor of the Medicaid Data Learning Network, a national consortium of Medicaid data users. From 2021-2024, she served as a senior advisor on health policy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She is the recipient of the 2020 Outstanding Dissertation Award from AcademyHealth and her work has been featured in the New York Times, CNN, and PBS. She received her doctorate in Health Services Research (health economics track) from the Brown University School of Public Health and an MS in Social and Behavioral Sciences from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

Education

  • Brown University, PhD Field of Study: Health Economics
  • Harvard School of Public Health, MS Field of Study: Social & Behavioral Sciences
  • New York University, BA Field of Study: Psychology

Websites

Classes Taught

  • SPHPM755
  • SPHPM834

Publications

  • Published on 2/24/2025

    Singh RP, Biondi B, Gordon SH, Linas BP, Epstein RL. Hepatitis C Virus Screening in Pregnant and Nonpregnant Women After Universal Screening Guidelines. JAMA. 2025 Feb 24. PMID: 39992633.

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  • Published on 1/2/2025

    Auty SG, Frakt AB, Shafer PR, Stein MD, Gordon SH. Severe Maternal Morbidity Among Pregnant People With Opioid Use Disorder Enrolled in Medicaid. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Jan 02; 8(1):e2453303. PMID: 39777443.

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  • Published on 9/1/2024

    Cole MB, Kim J, Gordon SH, Lasser KE, Ncube C, Patton E, Deen N, Carey K, Cabral H, Goldman AL, Ogden S, McCloskey L. Massachusetts Medicaid ACO Program May Have Improved Care Use And Quality For Pregnant And Postpartum Enrollees. Health Aff (Millwood). 2024 Sep; 43(9):1209-1218. PMID: 39226509.

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  • Published on 6/4/2024

    Schpero WL, Meyers DJ, Gordon SH. Safeguarding Research Using Federal Health Insurance Data. JAMA. 2024 Jun 04; 331(21):1801-1802. PMID: 38717760.

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  • Published on 4/1/2024

    Gordon SH, Lee S, Steenland MW, Deen N, Feinberg E. Extended Postpartum Medicaid In Colorado Associated With Increased Treatment For Perinatal Mood And Anxiety Disorders. Health Aff (Millwood). 2024 Apr; 43(4):523-531. PMID: 38560800.

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  • Published on 3/16/2024

    Alattas M, Gordon S, Sabin LL, El-Jardali F, Wirtz VJ. Equity and unmet need of non-communicable diseases services in Saudi Arabia using a National Household Survey (2019). BMC Health Serv Res. 2024 Mar 16; 24(1):346. PMID: 38491481.

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  • Published on 3/4/2024

    Safon CB, McCloskey L, Estela MG, Gordon SH, Cole MB, Clark J. Access to perinatal doula services in Medicaid: a case analysis of 2 states. Health Aff Sch. 2024 Mar; 2(3):qxae023. PMID: 38756922.

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  • Published on 3/1/2024

    Gordon SH, Chen L, DeLew N, Sommers BD. COVID-19 Medicaid Continuous Enrollment Provision Yielded Gains In Postpartum Continuity Of Coverage. Health Aff (Millwood). 2024 Mar; 43(3):336-343. PMID: 38437599.

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  • Published on 1/1/2024

    David K. Jones, Edited by Debra Bingham, Nicole Huberfeld, Sarah H. Gordon. Ripples of Hope in the Mississippi Delta: Charting the Health Equity Policy Agenda. The University of North Carolina Press. Chapel Hill, NC. 2024.
  • Published on 12/20/2023

    Safon CB, McCloskey L, Gordon SH, Cole MB, Clark J. Medicaid Reimbursement for Doula Care: Policy Considerations From a Scoping Review. Med Care Res Rev. 2024 Aug; 81(4):311-326. PMID: 38124279.

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