Amanda Kreider

Amanda Kreider is a health economist whose research examines how US public policy impacts people from historically marginalized groups, including those living in poverty, experiencing chronic illness or disability, or exposed to the criminal legal system. She completed her PhD in health policy and economics at Harvard University. Her dissertation demonstrated how Medicaid managed care plans’ economic incentives influence access to specialty care for enrollees. Kreider has also held a fellowship in aging and health economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research and worked as a research associate at PolicyLab at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.