Heidi L. Allen

Sen. Heidi L. Allen, MSW, PhD is an Associate Professor at Columbia School of Social Work. She studies the impact of social policies, like Medicaid –America’s health insurance for the poor –on access to health care, health and mental health outcomes, and financial well-being. The primary aim of her research is to eliminate disparities by rigorously informing and evaluating social policies that sit at the intersection of health and poverty. Over the past decade, her scholarship has been published in the leading medical and health policy journals and featured prominently in the media and during Medicaid policy proceedings.