Lindsay D Allen

Lindsay D Allen is an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine. She specializes in health economics and policy research, focusing on marginalized populations and evaluating state policies' effects on healthcare access, quality, and outcomes.

• BA: Johns Hopkins University (2000)
• MA: University of Chicago (2010)
• PhD: Emory University (2017)

Her research spans Medicaid policy, opioid use disorder treatment, telehealth implementation, and healthcare disparities. She examines barriers to buprenorphine distribution, telehealth accessibility differences between Medicaid and private insurance patients post-COVID-19, and prescription duration limits' impact on opioid treatment.

Her work in health economics includes analyzing geographic access to mental health services, economic impacts of healthcare policies, and cost management strategies for chronic conditions. Articles reveal consistent focus on Medicaid programs, prescription cost burdens, and public health interventions.

• Excellence in Research Award (Northwestern, 2022)
• Excellence in Teaching Award (West Virginia, 2021)
• Livingston Fellowship (Emory, 2016)

Allen contributes to editorial boards of Health Services Research and International Journal of Health Economics and Management, while leading the Mental Health Program at the American Society of Health Economics.