Corey Jacinto, MPH, BA

Project Title/Research Interests: Economic evaluation of preventive interventions and care, value-based healthcare reform, leveraging economics to improve health outcomes, social determinants of health

Background:
Mr. Jacinto earned a BA from Pomona College with a double major in economics and political science and an MPH with a concentration in health policy from Tulane University. Before matriculating at UCLA, Mr. Jacinto enjoyed his role as a program coordinator at the Center for Health Policy at the Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health. Some of his work included supporting the research efforts of the State Health Official Career Achievement and Sustainability Evaluation (SHO-CASE) study, Indiana’s State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup (SEOW), and an estimation of the medical cost burden attributable to childhood obesity in Indiana. Mr. Jacinto’s research interests include the economic evaluation of preventive interventions and care, value-based healthcare reform, leveraging economics to improve health outcomes, the social determinants of health, and the formulation and evaluation of policies intended to ameliorate health disparities that afflict racial/ethnic minorities and other historically marginalized and vulnerable populations and communities.