Hello! Welcome!

My name is Alexander Adia, and I am a third year doctoral student in Health Policy (Population and Data Science Track) at the University of California, Berkeley.

I am a policy and health services researcher who studies the effects of changes in healthcare markets and regulations on health outcomes, including financial burden and quality. I study the impact of policies that may be specifically targeted at improving public health and those that may not focus on health directly but influence social determinants of health. I also hold a specific interest in how policies impact disparities in health outcomes, built off my extensive pre-doctoral research experience on topics related to health equity as well as doctoral training as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar. My ongoing work is mostly centered around a) hospital consolidation and equity of care and b) medical debt and changes in market structure and policies.

In my pre-doctoral life, I thought a lot about HIV in the Philippines, data disaggregation for Asians in the US, and health among the FilAm community. While I no longer focus on these topics, I draw from these experiences in my current work and am always happy to talk to those who are working on these issues.

You can contact me at a dot adia at berkeley dot edu.