Gerry Fairbrother, PhD
Title
Professor
Email
gerry.fairbrother@cchmc.org
Phone
513-636-0189
Fax
513-636-0171
Bio
Gerry Fairbrother, PhD, is the Associate Director of the Child Policy Research Center. Her research areas include access and barriers to care, particularly for low-income children, and vaccine policies. 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 immunizing behavior. Dr. Fairbrother also directs the Health Services Research course in the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Cincinnati.
Credentials
PhD: The Johns Hopkins University, 1971.
BS: University of Maryland, 1965.
Awards and Honors
- Ohio Best Health Policy Research Award for Independent Scholar, December 2006
Research Grants and Contracts
Co-Investigator, CERTS, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2007-2011
Principal Investigator, Monitoring the Effects of the Citizenship Documentation, The California Endowment, 2006-2008
Principal Investigator of Subcontract, Development of Quality Monitoring and Management Systems, Ohio Board of Regents grant to Univ. of Cincinnati; subcontract from Univ of Cincinnati 2006-2008
Publications, Most Recent
Cassedy A, Newacheck PW, Fairbrother G. The impact of insurance instability on children’s access, use and satisfaction with health care. Ambulatory Pediatrics 2008; In Press.
Payne DC, Staat MA, Edwards K, Szilagyi, PG, Gentsch J, Stockman LJ, Curns A,
Griffin M, Weinberg GA, Hall C, Fairbrother G, Alexander J, Parashar UD, Active Population-Based Surveillance for Severe Rotavirus Gastroenteritis in US Children. Pediatrics. In Press.
Szilagyi PG, Fairbrother G, Griffin MR, Hornung RW, Sexton S, Morrow A, Altaye M,
Zhu Y, Ambrose S, Edwards KM, Poehling KA, Lofthus G, Holloway M, Finelli L, Iwane, M, Staat, MA, New Vaccine Surveillance Network. Influenza vaccine effectiveness among children 6 to 59 months of age during two influenza seasons: a case-cohort study. Arch. Ped & Adol Med. In Press.
DeVoe JE, Graham A, Krois L, Smith J, Fairbrother GL. “Mind the gap” in children’s health insurance coverage: does the length of a child’s coverage gap matter?Ambulatory Pediatrics 2008; 8:129-134.
Miller EK, Griffin MR, Edwards KM, Weinberg GA, Szilagyi PG, Staat MA, Iwane MK, Zhu Y, Hall CB, Fairbrother G, Seither R, Erdman D, Lu PJ, Poehling KA. Influenza Burden in Children with Asthma. Pediatrics 2008; 121(1):1-8.
Fairbrother, G. The Coverage Crux. Annals of Family Medicine 2007; 11 November 2007.
Fairbrother G, Broder K, Staat MA, Schwartz B, Heubi C, Hiratzka S, Walker FJ, Morrow AL. Pediatricians’ adherence to pneumococcal conjugate vaccine shortage recommendations in 2 national shortages. Pediatrics 2007; 120:e401-e409.
Fairbrother G, Emerson HP, Partridge L. How stable is Medicaid coverage for children?Health Affairs 2007; 26(2):520-528.
DeVoe J, Fryer GE, Straub A, McCann J, Fairbrother G. Congruent satisfaction: Is there geographic correlation between patient and physician satisfaction?Medical Care 2007; 45(1):88-94.
Pfefferbaum B, Stuber J, Galea S, Fairbrother G. Panic reactions to the September 11 attacks in adolescents. Journal of Traumatic Stress 2006; 19(2):217-228.
Professional Organization Memberships
Teaching
Course co-Director, Health Services Research at the University of Cincinnati
Course Director: Prevention in the U.S. Health Care System. Department of Community Health and Social Medicine at the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, Fall, 2004.
Related Areas
This person works in these other areas at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical
Center:
