Tamara Konetzka Public Health Sciences has been named the Louis Block Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences and the College.
Konetzka is an internationally recognized expert in the health economics of long-term and post-acute care. Her research focuses on the incentives created by health care policy, including payment policy, and their effects on quality of care. She has been the principal investigator on numerous major federal research grants, leading to significant advances in knowledge of the drivers of nursing home quality, how public reporting of quality changes the behavior of providers and consumers, and the unintended consequences of home-based long-term and post-acute care. This year, she testified before the U.S. Senate on COVID-19 and nursing homes.
Konetzka serves on several editorial boards and is editor-in-chief of Medical Care Research and Review.