Jamie Daw

Jamie Daw, Ph.D., is an associate professor of health policy and management at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and a faculty affiliate of the Columbia Population Research Center. Her work focuses on improving maternal and infant health through evidence-based health care policy and health system interventions. She specializes in quantitative methods, including quasi-experimental designs and the analysis of large surveys and administrative datasets. Daw’s research highlights the postpartum year as a critical window for policy interventions to improve long-term population health and reduce health disparities. Her research has been cited in policy documents and published in leading journals such as JAMA, the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Health Affairs, and the Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law. Her findings and commentary have also been featured in national and international media outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, PBS News Hour, and the CBC. Daw earned an M.Sc. in population and public health from the University of British Columbia and a Ph.D. in health policy from Harvard University.