Congratulations to the 2018 Nora Kahn Piore Award Recipients

The award is made annually to support undergraduate, graduate, and medical students undertaking research in health services, with a focus on health status and access to health care by poor and underserved populations.

The Nora Kahn Piore award was established in recognition of the lifetime work of health policy expert, Nora Kahn Piore through the generosity of Margot Piore Onek, MD ’64, P’91 and Joseph N. Onek.  These awards are made annually to support undergraduate, graduate, and medical students undertaking research in health services, with a focus on health status and access to health care by poor and underserved people. Congratulations to this year's awardees!

  • Xinqi Li (HSPP), "The Impact of Involuntary Disenrollment Due to Plan Exits on Coverage Continuity Among Medicaid Enrollees" 
  • Margot Schwartz (HSR), "How do I choose? Home Health Agency Star Ratings and Disparities in Agency Selection and Patient Outcomes" 
  • Arjee Restar (BSS), "Integrating Socio-ecological Model (SEM) and Social Network Theory (SNT) to Increase Access to and Uptake of HIV Treatment and Prevention Services among Sexually Active Gay and Transgender Women who have Sex with Men (GTSM) in Manila, Philippines: A Quantitative Assessment Approach" 
  • Xuan Zhang (Economics), "Expanding Health Insurance to Parents: Effects on Children's Health Care Use and Health" 
  • Narae Kim (MPH), "Disparity of Senior Health Opportunity in Seoul, South Korea: Development and Evaluation of Senior Health Opportunity Index in Seoul" 
  • Tara Boutan (Biomed), "Use of bedaquiline for treatment of rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis in Worcester, South Africa: a retrospective cohort analysis" 
  • Courtney Choy (Epi), "Intensive follow-up assessment of nutritional status among young children in the Ola Tuputupua "Growing Up" cohort study in Samoa" 
  • Augustine Kang (BSS), "Poor Sleep Quality Among Hispanic Children: Formative Research to Inform the Development of Intervention"