California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) Evaluation
Emmeline Chuang, Professor
Social Welfare
Applications for Fall 2024 are closed for this project.
Medicaid is a public health insurance that in California, covers more than one in three Californians. CalAIM is a multiyear plan to transform California's Medicaid program (known as "Medi-Cal"). This project focuses on evaluating implementation of new Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports benefits in California's Medicaid program, and of the state's Justice-Involved initiative. Community Supports are new non-medical services covered by Medicaid, such as housing supports, medical respite, personal care, and medically tailored meals, while the Justice-Involved initiative allows for provision of a targeted set of Medicaid services to eligible youth and adults in state prisons, county jails, and youth correctional facilities for up to 90 days prior to release.
Role: Primary activities include:
1. Qualitative coding of key informant interviews and documents submitted by participating stakeholders to the state. Tasks could include qualitative coding in Dedoose or NVIVO (software access and training will be provided) and summarizing key themes from coded interview content.
2. Literature review and synthesis
Additional tasks possible based on student interest, such as notetaking for key informant interviews, analyzing survey data, supporting paper writing, and other tasks TBD.
Qualifications: *Prefer students majoring in public health, social work, public policy, journalism, or related fields.
*3rd or 4th year students preferred.
*Strong writing skills and attention to detail required
*Interest in or familiarity with research literature in the following or related areas: public health, social determinants of health, health & social services integration, implementation science, and cross-sector collaboration.
*Proficiency with MS Word, Excel, and online library and journal search engine resources
*Experience with qualitative software (NVivo, Dedoose) preferred.
*Experience with quantitative data analyses (Stata or Excel) a plus.
*GPA minimum 3.0.
Hours: to be negotiated
Off-Campus Research Site: Remote work possible
Social Sciences