Innovation and Healthcare Profiteering
Armando Lara-Millan, Professor
Sociology
Applications for Fall 2025 are closed for this project.
This project investigates the effects of market institutions on healthcare innovation and its consequences for inequality and wages. Specifically, the effect of the national medical code scheme on the ability of innovators to bring medical innovations (procedures, devices, diagnostics) to market. We will be assembling a large data set that links medical journal articles and specialty society lobbying documents to medical coding and pricing changes.
Qualifications: Familiarity with excel is required, familiarity with API and python would be a bonus. Ability to conduct literature reviews in sociology and health policy also recommended. Communication skills and task follow through also are a priority. There is opportunity to move into a leadership role in the wider project.
Day-to-day supervisor for this project: Peter Kirechu
Hours: 6-8 hrs
Off-Campus Research Site: Meetings will be held on zoom.
Social Sciences