About the lab
Our organizing question, the allocation paradox, asks how coverage, ownership and payment quietly decide which patients reach timely, high-quality cancer care.
Research themes
Coverage and Medicaid
How eligibility rules, work requirements and insurance status change who is screened, diagnosed and treated.
Ownership, prices and payment
How quality and spending change when hospitals and practices join systems or are bought by private equity.
Place and vulnerability
How neighborhood, rurality and historic policy shape access to high-quality cancer care.
Surgical quality and outcomes
How surgical approach, timing, and the surgeon and hospital shape outcomes after liver, pancreas and emergency operations.