Defended Dissertation Proposals

PhD Program Quick Links PhD Home - Admissions and Tuition - Curriculum and Degree Requirements   Frequently Asked Questions - Guidelines and Procedures Manual Recent PhD Graduates (.pdf file) - PhD Employment Opportunities    Below is a list of Health Policy and Administration students who have defended their dissertation proposals:  Sung-Heui Bae PhD minor: Sociology/Organizational Studies Dissertation Title/Date of Defense: Nursing Unit Turnover, Workgroup Processes, and Unit-level Patient Outcomes (August 2007) Anita Bhat PhD minor: Epidemiology Dissertation Title/Date of Defense: Health Literacy in Arthritis (January 2007) Wendy Chen PhD minor: Sociology/Organizational Studies Dissertation Title/Date of Defense: State Intervention and Hospital Response n Community Health Promotion: A Comparison Study of California, Texas and Florida (May 2004) Young Do PhD minor: Quality and Access Dissertation Title/Date of Defense: Informal Care: Effects on Health Care Use and Caregivers’ Labor Force Participation (November, 2007) Link to CV Elizabeth Exley PhD minor: Quality and Access Dissertation Title/Date of Defense: Evaluation of Rural Assertive Community Treatment (December 2006) Link to CV Erin Fraher PhD minor: Sociology/Organizational Studies Dissertation Title/Date of Defense: Physician Careers in Rural Areas: Transitions and Trajectories (November 2006) Link to CV Allison Gilbert PhD Minor: Epidemiology Dissertation Title/Date of Defense: Women with Co-occurring Disorders and Histories of Abuse: Moderators of Treatment Effect on Services Use and Costs (April 2006) Pei-Jung Lin PhD minor: Decision Sciences Dissertation Title/Date of Defense: Predictive Modeling of Healthcare Costs for Medicare Beneficiaries with Alzheimer's Disease (May 2007) Link to CV Leah Masselink PhD minor: Sociology/Organizational Studies Dissertation Title/Date of Defense: Health Professions Education as a National Industry: Framing of Controversies in Nursing Education and Migration in the Philippines (December, 2007) Shu Wen Ng PhD minor: Economics Dissertation Title/Date of Defense: The Effects of Infrastructure Development, Technology Ownership, Income and Prices on Body Mass Index among Chinese Adults (September 2007) Link to CV Talya Salz PhD minor: Epidemiology Dissertation Title/Date of Defense: Colonoscopy Use Among Survivors of Colorectal Cancer (April 2007) Link to CV John A. Staley III PhD minor: Political Science Dissertation Title/Date of Defense: The Determinants of Firefighter Physical Fitness: An Inductive Inquiry into Firefighter Culture (November 2005) Link to CV Rene Sterling PhD minor: Political Science/Public Policy Development Dissertation Title/Date of Defense: Promotion and Sale of Nutrigenomic Services On-line (March 2006) Bhavna Talekar PhD minor: Sociology Dissertation Title/Date of Defense: Referrals for Dental Care from a Medical Office-Based Preventive Dental Program (May 2006) Virginia Wang PhD minor: Sociology and Organizational Studies Dissertation Title/Date of Defense: Location, Location, Location: A Study of Peritoneal Dialysis Services in the United States (February 2007) Link to CV   Content for this page provided by the Department of Health Policy and Administration. Please contact the webmaster with any comments or questions.

Last updated March 07, 2008