Amanda Kreider

Amanda Kreider, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on systemic challenges in long-term care, particularly the economic and policy factors affecting the direct care workforce and Medicaid-managed care networks.

• Education: BS in Economics and BA in French and Francophone Studies from Penn State (2009), PhD in Health Policy (Economics Track) from Harvard University (2021), and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (2024)

Research Interests: Kreider's work investigates workforce shortages in Medicaid home-based care systems, immigration enforcement impacts on care access, and managed care plans' economic disincentives to include specialists in networks. She employs rigorous econometric analyses of large-scale datasets to inform policy reforms.

Scientific Awards: Recognized with a

• Program Chair Award at the 2024 ASHEcon meetings

for her research on Medicaid managed care networks.

Her publications reveal critical gaps between Medicaid coverage expansion and workforce capacity, as well as structural barriers to specialist care access. Current projects examine how regulatory frameworks shape care delivery systems for vulnerable populations.