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Pitt Public Health researcher explores how insurance denials shape health inequities in new book
Miranda Yaver, PhD, assistant professor of health policy and management at Pitt Public Health, will release her first book on April 23. Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States, published by Cambridge University Press, draws on survey research, administrative data, and interviews to examine why health insurance coverage is denied and how those decisions affect patients—often due to racial and economic inequities.
How we investigated Pennsylvania’s plunging school vaccine rates and lack of state enforcement
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in collaboration with FRONTLINE (PBS)’s Local Journalism Initiative—and with support from The Heinz Endowments and the Pulitzer Center—spent six months investigating declining vaccination rates and the forces driving this post-pandemic shift. As part of the project, the Public Health Dynamics Laboratory at Pitt Public Health played a key role, using its FRED (Framework for Reconstructing Epidemiological Dynamics) simulation platform to model potential measles outbreaks in schools.
A Pitt team develops computer model to track measles
The development of FRED — named after Pittsburgh’s legendary Fred Rogers — began in 2001 under the leadership of Dr. Donald Burke, the former dean of Pitt’s School of Public Health. “It was based on the notion that we were modeling communities and neighborhoods, and who cared more about neighborhoods and kids than Mister Rogers?” Dr. Burke said.