Job Title: Research Director, IRDES ( Institute for Research and Information in Health Economics)
Bio: Paul Dourgnon, Ph.D., M.Sc., is a 2016-17 French Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice. He is currently Research Director at the Institut de Recherche et Documentation en Economie de la Santé, as well as an Associate Researcher at Hospinnomics, and Paris Dauphine University research Center for Health Economics. His research topics include social inequalities in health and health care utilization, policy evaluation, and survey sciences. Since 2014, he has been head of the Health and Welfare Policy unit at the Institut de Recherche et Documentation en Economie de la Santé, where he is leading research on equity, health insurance, and health in the workplace, as well as developing tools for measuring access to healthcare services and patient experiences. He has also been involved in the Migrant Integration Policy Index and projects around financial protection in European health systems, funded by the World Health Organization. Dourgnon received a Ph.D. in economic sciences from Université Paris IX Dauphine, and a master's degree in statistics with a specialization in health economics from Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Analyse de l'Information.
Placement: University of California Los Angeles
Mentors: Nadereh Pourat, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of California, Los Angeles, Fielding School of Public Health
Project: Addressing Undocumented Immigrants Healthcare Needs through Innovative Programs in California
Description: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has made historic gains toward expanding coverage and improving access to quality and affordable health care for the U.S. population. Nevertheless, Undocumented Immigrants have remained excluded from ACA provisions and represent a significant part of the resident population that is still uncovered today.