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Megdalynn Fisher
O’Neill School of Public and Envrionmental Affairs
1315 E. Tenth Street Bloomington, IN 47405-1701
(678) 823-3128
megdalynn@outlook.com

Education

Ph.D. PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 2025 expected

O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affaris, Indiana University (IU), Bloomington, IN
PhD Candidate profile

Dissertation Committee: Kosali Simon (chair), Seth Freedman (co-chair), Justin Ross, Coady Wing, John R. Bowblis

  • Dissertation: “Policy and Unintended Consequences in Healthcare Quality: The Case of Long-term Care”

MASTER OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, 2019

Marriott School of Business, Brigham Young University (BYU), Provo, UT

Advisors: Rob Christensen, Rex Facer, Andrew Heiss

  • Capstone: “Enhancing healthcare transparency in Utah: Deriving a composite quality score for public use as a complement to the Total Cost of Care project”

B.S. Economics, 2017

Woodbury School of Business, Utah Valley University (UVU), Orem, UT


Research Interests


Work in Progress


Publications


Presentations

CONFERENCES

INVITES

Invited Presentation. “Government Intervention in Nursing Homes: Assessing Ownership Dynamics and Quality of Care Under Non-State Government Owned Supplemental Payment Programs.” Ball State University, November 6, 2024.


Research Experience

RESEARCH ASSISTANT 9/2017 - PRESENT

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Kosali Simon, 2/2022 - PRESENT

  • Racial segregation and nursing homes
  • Use of antipsychotic medications in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and serious mental illness
  • Formal disruptions to care in the nursing facility market
  • Hospital price transparency
  • Medicaid expansion and the Health and Retirement Study
  • Patient sorting and provider characteristics
  • CARES Act relief funds

Seth Freedman and Victoria Perez, 8/2019 - 8/2021

  • Hospital advertising
    • Market concentration
    • End of life care
    • Healthcare quality
    • Section 340B drug pricing program

Jennifer Silva, 2/2022 - PRESENT

  • Narrative analysis
  • Assembly of qualitative patient interviews with electronic health records

Victoria Perez, 8/2019 - 8/2021

  • Medicaid Fraud Control Units and job turnover
  • COVID-19 and nursing home quality

Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

Mark Keith and Bill Taylor, 9/2017 - 5/2019

  • Healthcare Industry Research Center
    • Cost Transparency
    • Healthcare IT Vendors

Work Experience

DATA ANALYST, 5/2018 – 8/2019

Comagine Health, Murray, UT

  • Cleaned, analyzed, and utilized data to produce actionable reports supporting the Quality Payment Program, Total Cost of Care, and Health Innovation Improvement Network for this Quality Innovation Network/Quality Improvement Organization (QIN/QIO).
  • Performed and interpreted statistical analysis, creating data visualizations.
  • Researched and proposed analysis techniques for public transparency objectives.
  • Designed automated reports using Tableau, Excel, Access, SAS, and R Studio.

BOOKKEEPER, 8/2012 – 8/2017

Quickbooks Bookkeeping, Spanish Fork, UT

  • Accessed and organized information from various sources to provide monthly and annual financial statements as a self-employed bookkeeper.
  • Reduced bookkeeping time by 40% during exceptional company growth (revenues, assets, and cash flows increasing roughly 300%).

OFFICE MANAGER, 5/2012 – 8/2013

Anderson Wood Law, Salt Lake City, UT

  • Responsible for creating invoices, billing clients, filing documents, bookkeeping, and providing customer service.

Teaching


Teaching Interests

Healthcare

  • Health Economics
  • Healthcare Services Delivery
  • Healthcare Finance

Economics and Statistics

  • Introduction, Principles, History
  • Contemporary Affairs
  • Public Policy, Econometrics
  • Development, Poverty

Public Affairs

  • Program Evaluation
  • Policy Analysis
  • Finance
  • Data and Quantitative Analysis

Research Mentoring Experience

GRADUATE 1/2024 – PRESENT

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

  • Project management and research mentoring for a team including three graduate students

UNDERGRADUATE 3/2022 – PRESENT

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

  • Senior honors thesis advising including research design, technical support, and reviews for fourteen undergraduates.

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships


Service and leadership


Professional Memberships