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Bryan Dowd, Ph.D.
Professor
Ph.D., Public Policy Analysis, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1982
M.S., Urban Administration, Georgia State University, 1976
B.A., Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1972
dowdx001@umn.edu
Office Phone: 612-624-5468 |
| Bryan E. Dowd,
PhD focuses his research on health
economics, health policy, including markets
for public and private health insurance and
health care services, and the application of
econometric methods to health service
research problems. His recent research
includes studies of insurance theory, causal
modeling, health plan choice, enrollment and
disenrollment in Medicare HMOs, tax policy,
and Medicare reform. He has published over
100 articles in peer-reviewed journals and
coauthored the book Competitive Pricing for
Medicare with HPM colleagues. He is the
recipient of three Article of the Year
Awards. Currently he chairs the Methods
Council for AcademyHealth. Dr. Dowd is the
director of graduate studies for the M.S.
and Ph.D. programs in health services
research, policy and administration, and he
served as interim division head in HPM from
1998 to 1999. He received his Ph.D. in
public policy analysis from the University
of Pennsylvania, his MS in urban
administration from Georgia State University
and his Bachelor of Architecture from the
Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a
licensed architect.
Teaches
Health services research methods and
health policy
Selected Publications
Schult, Tamara, McGovern, Patricia,
Dowd, Bryan, and Nico Pronk. “The Future
of Health Promotion/Disease Prevention
Programs: The Incentives and Barriers
Faced by Stakeholders. Journal of
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
48:6 (2006) 541-548.
McGovern, Pat, Dowd, Bryan E.,
Gjerdingen, Dwenda, Gross, Cynthia,
Kenney, Sally, Ukestad, Laurie,
McCaffrey, David and Luf Lundberg.
“Postpartum Health of Employed Mothers
Five Weeks After Childbirth,” Annals
of Family Medicine 4:2 (March/April
2006) 159-167.
Kralewski, John E., Dowd, Bryan E.,
Health Alan, and Amer Kaissi. “The
Influence of the Structure and Culture
of Medical Group Practices on
Prescription Drug Errors,” Medical
Care 43:8 (August 2005) 817-825.
Dowd, Bryan E., Feldman, Roger and
Robert Coulam. “FFS Medicare in a
Competitive Market Environment,”
Health Care Financing Review 27:2
(Winter 2005-2006) 113-126.
Dowd, Bryan E. “Coordinated Agency
Versus Autonomous Consumers in Health
Services Markets,” Health Affairs
24:6 (November/December 2005) 1501-1511.
Gans, David, Kralewski, John,
Hammons, Terry and Bryan Dowd. “Medical
Groups’ Adoption of Electronic Health
Records and Information Systems,”
Health Affairs 24:5
(September/October 2005) 1123-1333.
Kralewski, John, Dowd, Bryan E.,
Kaissi, Amer, Curoe, Ann, and Todd
Rockwood. “Measuring the Culture of
Medical Group Practices,” Health Care
Management Review 30:3
(July-September 2005) 184-193.
Atherly, Adam and Bryan E. Dowd. “The
Effect of Medicare Advantage Payments on
Dually Eligible Medicare Beneficiaries,”
Health Care Financing Review,
26:3 (Spring 2005) 93-104.
Maciejewski, Matthew, Dowd, Bryan and
Heidi O’Connor. “Multiple Prior Years of
Health Expenditures and Medicare Health
Plan Choice,” International Health
Care Finance and Economics. 4:3
(September 2004) 247-261.
Town, Robert, Wholey, Douglas R.,
Kralewski, John and Bryan Dowd.
“Assessing the Influence of Incentives
on Physicians and Medical Groups,”
Medical Care Research and Review
61:3 (September 2004) 805-1194.
Sutton, Harry, Roger Feldman, and
Bryan Dowd, “Disruption of a Managed
Competition Environment by Low-Ball
Premium Bids: The Minnesota State
Employees Group Insurance Program,”
North American Actuarial Journal,
8:2 (April, 2004), pp. 73-83.
Atherly, Adam, Dowd, Bryan E. and
Roger Feldman. “The Effect of Benefits,
Premiums, and Health Risk on Health Plan
Choice in the Medicare Program,”
Health Services Research 39:4
(August 2004, Part 1) 847-864.
Professional Experience
Mayo Professor, Division of Health
Policy and Management, School of Public
Health, University of Minnesota, 2002 to
present
Professor, Division of Health Policy
and Management, School of Public Health,
University of Minnesota, 1994 to present
Interim Division Head, Division of
Health Policy and Management, School of
Public Health, University of Minnesota,
October 1998 - July 1999
Visiting Associate Professor,
Department of Health Policy and
Administration, School of Public Health,
University of North Carolina, August
1988 - May 1989
Honors
Mayo Professor in 2002
Association for Health Services
Research: Article of the Year, 2001,
1994
National Institute for Health Care
Management: Health Care Research Award –
2000
Humana Visiting Scholar. Department
of Business and Economics. University of
Kentucky. March 1993
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