Miranda Yaver

Contributions to Public Health

A political scientist examining the administrative burden and the American political economy of health, I am the author of Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States, published by Cambridge University Press in 2026, which examines the scope and impact of delays and denials of health coverage amid America’s shift to managed care, and the ways that these denials can drive inequitable burdens of appealing as well as worse health outcomes. My next book, The Health Care Trap: How U.S. Federal Law Entrenched the Power of Private Insurance, is under contact with Cambridge University Press and examines through the lenses of health federalism and policy feedback the legal foundations of health insurance barriers. My research has appeared in such outlets as the American Journal of Political Science; Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law; Lancet Regional Health-Americas; World Medical & Health Policy; JAMA Pediatrics; Health Affairs Scholar; and Publius: The Journal of Federalism. A former Roosevelt Institute Healthcare Fellow, current AcademyHealth Champion for Health Services and Prevention Research, and Scholars Strategy Network Central PA Chapter co-leader, I work to translate my research into broader dissemination through the development of policy briefs and health policy commentary through op-eds and other mediums to such outlets as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, MS NOW, The Hill, The New Republic, and NPR. In 2026, I was awarded the Bernard D. Goldstein Undergraduate Public Health Teaching Award and the American Political Science Association’s Health Politics and Policy Section’s Emerging Scholar and Outstanding Public Engagement Awards.