Gerry Fairbrother, PhD, Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Gerry Fairbrother, PhD, is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati and holds a joint appointment in Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness and Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; she is also the Associate Director of Child Policy Research Center.
Dr. Fairbrother’s research areas include access and barriers to care, particularly for low-income children. She has led investigations on gaps and patterns of enrollment in child health insurance, barriers and cost to enroll in these programs, impact of Medicaid managed care on preventive screening for children, and impact of financial incentives on physician behavior. She has served as a consultant to the Institute of Medicine on projects dealing with Immunization Financing and Consequences of Uninsurance.
She also works extensively with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on a project to assist states meet their requirement to monitor immunization rates for their children in Medicaid. Dr. Fairbrother holds a PhD from The Johns Hopkins University and is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and a Fellow of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association. She received the 2006 “Best Ohio Health Policy Award for Independent Scholar or Practitioner” from the Health Policy Institute of Ohio.
