Gerry Fairbrother, PhD, Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Gerry Fairbrother, PhD, is Professor and Associate Director of the Child Policy Research Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati. Dr. Fairbrother has led investigations into child health insurance enrollment patterns, barriers, and costs, the impact of Medicaid managed care on children's preventive health screening, and the effect of financial incentives on physician behavior. She has served as a consultant to the Institute of Medicine on projects dealing with immunization financing and the consequences of uninsurance and has worked with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help states monitor immunization rates for children in Medicaid. Dr. Fairbrother holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins University and is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and a Fellow of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association. She was awarded the "Best Ohio Health Policy Award for Independent Scholar or Practitioner" from the Health Policy Institute of Ohio in 2006. Contact Dr. Fairbrother at gerry.fairbrother@cchmc.org.
