Leighton Ku

Bachelor of Arts (Biochemistry), Harvard College, 1975

Master of Science (Nutritional sciences), University of California, Berkeley, 1979

Master of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 1979

Doctor of Philosophy (Health policy), Boston University, 1990 

PPOL 6022: Advanced Research Methods in Public Policy, School of Public Policy and Public Administration

PPOL 6013: Research Methods in Public Policy, School of Public Policy and Public Administration

PubH 6310: Statistical Analysis is Health Policy

PubH 6015.16: Health Policy Capstone (Culminating Experience)

PubH 8418: Doctoral Research Methods 2

Executive Board Member, District of Columbia Health Benefits Exchange Authority, 2012 - now

Professor Ku is the author, or co-author, of more than 200 articles and reports about health policy and public health focused on health care access and insurance coverage for low-income and vulnerable populations. Ku also directs the Center for Health Policy Research, a multidisciplinary research center which conducts health policy related research for numerous federal and state agencies, the National Institutes of Health, foundations and other organizations. His research creates evidence about policies that can promote or sustain access and health equity in the United States.   His policy research has been cited in federal, state and local legislation and in court decisions.  He is both a quantitative researcher and a researcher with a strong understanding of critical issues in the contemporary domestic health policy world.

Selected Peer-Reviewed Articles in Academic Journals

• Ku L.  Financing Health Care For Children In Immigrant Families.  Invited manuscript Pediatric Clinics of North America. Forthcoming 2026.
• Ku L.  Missed Opportunities: Using Medicaid Section 1115 Projects to Improve the Health of Medicaid and Medicare Beneficiaries.  Milbank Quarterly. Published online May 2026.  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0009.70092
• Kwon K, Jacobs F, Ku L. Responding to Behavioral and Social Needs in Community Health Centers: A Descriptive Analysis of Patterns and Challenges. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.  37(1) August 2026.
• Kwon K, Ku L.  Insurance-related Disparities in Mental Health Status, Access, and Affordability Among Low-income U.S. Adults, 2019-2023.  Community Mental Health Journal.  April 2026.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-026-01631-8
• Platt I, Hall S, Tilea A, Zhang X, Ku L, Markus A, Zivin K. Association of Michigan Medicaid’s Depression Screening Requirement with Changes in Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Diagnosis and Treatment for Perinatal Mental Health Conditions. Women’s Health Issues.  Available online June 2026.  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1049386726000757?via%3Dihub
• Ku L, Kwon K, Jacobs F, Rosenbaum S. Eligibility Assistance Increases Insurance Enrollment Within Community Health Centers But Not at the State Level.  Health Affairs.  May 2025.  44(5): 606-13.  2025.
• Regenstein M, Trott J, Ku L, et al. A New Formula for Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Payments Based on a Comprehensive Cost Evaluation. Academic Medicine. May 2025, 100(5): 628-634.
• Ku L.  Medicaid and SNAP Advance Equity But Sometimes Have Hidden Racial and Ethnic Barriers.  Health Affairs. 2023 Oct. 42(10): 1347–1350
• Ku L.  Still No Differences in the Length or Scope of Primary and Ambulatory Care for Medicaid and Commercial Patients.  Health Affairs Scholar, 2023 Aug. 1(2) qxad027, https://doi.org/10.1093/haschl/
• Ku L, Platt I.  The Duration and Continuity of Medicaid Enrollment Before the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Health Forum.  Dec. 16, 2022.  2022;3(12):e224732. doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2022.4732.  ESupplement  also.
• Ku L.  The Stability and Continuity of Medicaid Coverage.  Editorial.  Annals of Internal Medicine, Jan. 2023; 176(1): 127-8.  Published online Dec. 6, 2022,  doi:10.7326/M22-3315.
• Ku L.  Who Pays for Immigrants’ Health Care in the US?   JAMA Network Open.  2022; 5(11):e2241171. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.41171. Nov. 9, 2022.  Editorial.
• Ku L, Vichare A.  The Association of Racial and Ethnic Concordance in Primary Care with
• Patient Satisfaction and Experience of Care.  Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2023 Feb.  8(3):727-732. Doi: 10.1007/s11606-022-07695-y
• Brantley E, Ku L.  Continuous Eligibility for Medicaid Is Associated with Improved Health Access.  Medical Care Research and Review.  2022 June; 79(2): 404-13.
• Brantley E, Darden M, Ku L.  Effects of Expanding Parental Medicaid Eligibility on Parental Health and Family Functioning. Academic Pediatrics, 2022 May; 22(4): 622-30.
• Ku L. The Association of Social Factors and Health Insurance Coverage with COVID-19 Vaccinations and Intentions.  Journal of General Internal Medicine.  Published online early Nov 29. 2021.  DOI: 10.1007/s11606-021-07213-6
• Han X, Pittman P, Ku L. The Effect of National Health Service Corps Clinician Staffing on Medical and Behavioral Health Care Costs in Community Health Centers.  Medical Care.  2021 Oct. 59(2 Supp): S428-S433.  doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001610
• Brantley E,  Ku L.  Continuous Eligibility for Medicaid Is Associated with Improved Health Access.  Medical Care Research and Review.  2021 Sept. Online ahead of print.  https://doi.org/10.1177/10775587211021172
• Brantley E, Darden M, Ku L.  Effects of Expanding Parental Medicaid Eligibility on Parental Health and Family Functioning, Academic Pediatrics, 2021 Aug.  Online ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2021.07.017
• Ku L.  Are Reductions in Immigrants’ Supplemental Security Income Participation Beneficial? It Is Not Completely Clear (invited editorial).  American Journal of Public Health. 111(6): 1003-4, June 2021.
• Jewers M, Ku L.  Noncitizen Children Face Higher Health Harms Compared With Their Siblings Who Have US Citizen Status.  Health Affairs. July 2021. 40(7): 1084-89. (Selected as an Editor’s Pick for the journal in 2021.)
• Wang X, Babb S, Xu X, Ku L, Glover-Kudon R, Armour B.  Receipt of Cessation Treatments Among Medicaid Enrollees Trying to Quit Smoking. Nicotine and Tobacco Research.  Advance Access.  Research, Feb. 2021, 1–5, doi:10.1093/ntr/ntaa213
• Ku L, Han X, Chen C, Vujicic M.  Dental Education and Other Factors Associated with Medicaid Pediatric Dental Participation. Journal of Dental Education. 2020 Sept.  doi: 10.1002/jdd.12390
• Ku L, Brantley E.  Conducting Evaluation Research for Policy and Legal Analysis in a Turbulent Policy Environment: The Example of Medicaid and SNAP Work Requirements. Sage Research Methods Cases: Medicine and Health, June 25, 2020. doi.org/10.4135/9781529743746
• Brantley E, Pillai D, Ku L.  Associations of Work Requirements and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation by Race/Ethnicity and Disability Status, 2013-2017. JAMA Network Open, Jun. 26, 2020.  2020; 3(6):e205824. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.5824,
• Han X, Ku L. Enhancing Staffing in Rural Community Health Centers Can Improve Behavioral Health Care.  Health Affairs. 2019 Dec.; 38(12): 2061-68.
• Brantley E, Pillai D, Ku L.  Associations of Work Requirements and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation by Race/Ethnicity and Disability Status, 2013-2017. Forthcoming, JAMA Network Open, 2020.
• Ku L, Brantley E, Pillai D.  The Effect of Work Requirements on SNAP Enrollment and Benefits.  American Journal of Public Health, 2019 Oct.; 109(10): 1446-1451.
• Behn M, Pace L, Ku L.  The Trump Administration’s Final Regulations Limit Insurance Coverage of Contraception.  Women’s Health Issues.  2019 Jan 7. p: S1049-3867.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.whi.2018.12.00
• Han X, Pittman P, Erickson C, Mullan F, Ku L.  Effect of the National Health Service Corps on Clinician Staffing and Patient Visits in Federally Qualified Health Centers.  Forthcoming, Medical Care.
• Bruen BK, Ku L.  The Effects of Community Health Center Care on Medical Expenditures for Children and Adults: Propensity Score Analyses.  Journal of Ambulatory Care Management,  2019; 42(2): 128-37.  https://journals.lww.com/ambulatorycaremanagement/Fulltext/2019/04000/T…
• Lantz P, Miller G, Ryhan C, Rosenbaum S, Ku L, Iovan S.  “Pay for Success” Financing and Home-Based Multicomponent Childhood Asthma Interventions: Modeling Results from the Detroit Medicaid Population.  Milbank Quarterly.  2018; 96(2): 272-99.
• Brantley E, Greene J, Bruen B, Steinmetz E, Ku L.  Policies Affecting Medicaid Beneficiaries’ Smoking Cessation Behaviors. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 2018. 21(4): 197-204.
• Holla N, Brantley E, Ku L.  Physicians’ Recommendations to Medicaid Patients about Tobacco Cessation.  American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Dec. 2018.  55(6): 762–769.
• Ku L, Steinmetz E, Bysshe T, Bruen B. Crossing Boundaries: Medicaid and Public Health Collaborations to Help Smokers Quit, Public Health Reports, 2017 Feb, Vol. 132(2) 164-170.
• Han X, Luo Q,  Ku L.  Medicaid Expansions and Increases in Grant Funding Increased the Capacity of Community Health Centers, Health Affairs, 2017 Jan.; 36 (1):49-56.
• Lantz P, Rosenbaum S, Ku L, Iovan S. Pay for Success Initiatives in the U.S.:  Potential and Challenges as a Strategy for Population Health Improvement, Health Affairs, 2016 Nov; 35:2053-2061
• Frogner B, Pittman P, Masselink Ku L L, Do Years of Experience with EHRs Matter for Productivity in Community Health Centers?  Journal of Ambulatory Care Management. 2017 Jan/Mar;  40(1): 36-47.
• Ku L, Brantley E, Bysshe T, Steinmetz E, Bruen B.  How Medicaid and Other Public Policies Affect Utilization of Tobacco Cessation. Preventing Chronic Diseases, 2016 Oct;13:160234. DOI:.
• Bruen B, Steinmetz E, Bysshe T,  Glassman P, Ku L.  Care for Potentially Preventable Dental Conditions in Operating Rooms by Medicaid Children, Journal of the American Dental Association, 2016 Sept. :147(9):702-708 (cover story)
• Ku L, Bysshe T, Steinmetz E, Bruen B.  Health Reform, Medicaid Expansions and Women’s Cancer Screening, Women’s Health Issues, Feb. 2016.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.whi.2016.01.0
• August E, Steinmetz E, Gavin L, Rivera M, Pazol K, Moskosky S, Weik T, Ku L.  Projecting the Unmet Need and Costs for Contraception Services after Health Care Reform, American Journal of Public Health. 106(2): 334–341, Feb. 2016.  doi:10.2105/AJPH.2015.302928
• Ku L Bruen B, Steinmetz E, Bysshe T.  Medicaid Tobacco Cessation: Big Gaps Remain In Efforts To Get Smokers To Quit, Health Affairs,  35:62-70, Jan. 2016; doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2015.0756
• Ku L.  Immigrants Face Barriers Both as Health Care Patients and Providers,  Harvard Health Policy Review, 15(1):22-24, Fall 2015.
• Jones E, Ku L. Sharing a Playbook: Integrated Care in Community Health Centers, American Journal of Public Health. 105(1). 2028-2034, October 2015,   doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302710
• Zur J, Ku L.  Factors Associated with Geographic Variation in Psychiatric Prescription Drug Expenditures among Medicaid Beneficiaries, Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, epub ahead of print July 24, 2015, doi: 10.1007/s11414-015-9471-x.
• Ku L, Frogner B, Steinmetz E, Pittman P.  Community Health Centers Use Diverse Staffing and Can Provide Lessons for Other Medical Practices, Health Affairs  34(1):95-103, Jan. 2015.
• Jones E, Ku L, Smith S, Lardiere  M. County Workforce, Reimbursement, and Organizational Factors Associated with Behavioral Health Capacity in Health Centers, Journal of Behavior and Health Services Research, 2014 Apr;41(2):125-39.
• Bruen B, Ku L, Lu X, Shin P.   No Evidence That Primary Care Physicians Offer Less Care To
• Medicaid, Community Health Center Or Uninsured Patients, Health Affairs, 32(9): 1624-30, Sept. 2013.
• Ku L, Steinmetz E, Bruen, B. Continuous Eligibility Policies Stabilize Medicaid Coverage for
• Children and Could Be Extended to Adults with Similar Results, Health Affairs, 32(9): 1576-82, Sept. 2013.
• Ku L, Sharac J, Bruen B, Thomas M, Norris L.  Increased Use of Dental Services by Children Covered by Medicaid: 2000-2010 Medicare and Medicaid Research Review 3(3): E1-E12.  July 2013.
• Levy A, Bruen B, Ku L. Health Care Reform and Women’s Insurance Coverage for Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening.  Preventing Chronic Disease.  9: 120069.  Oct. 25, 2012.  DOI: http//dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd9.120069.
• Levy A, Bruen B, Ku L.  The Potential Employment Impact of Health Reform on Working-Age Adults With Disabilities, Journal of Disability Studies.  30 May 2012. DOI: 10.1177/1044207312446225
• Willard R, Shah G, Leep C, Ku L.  Impact of the 2008-2010 Economic Recession on Local Health Departments, Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 18(2):106-114, Mar/Apr. 2012.
• Richard P, West K, Ku L. The Return on Investment of a Medicaid Tobacco Cessation Program in Massachusetts PLoS ONE, 7(1): e29665, January 2012.  doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029665.
• Rosenbaum S,  Ku L, Lantz P, et al. Examining the Evidentiary Basis of Congress’s Commerce Clause Power to Address Individuals’ Health Insurance Status, BNA’s Health Care Policy Report, Feb. 6, 2012, p 1-9.
• Richard P, Ku L, Dor A, Tan E, Shin P, Rosenbaum S.  Cost Savings Associated with the Use of Community Health Centers. Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 35(1): 50-59. Jan-Mar. 2012.
• Ku L, Jones E, Shin P, Burke FR, Long S. Safety-net providers after health care reform: lessons from Massachusetts Archives of Internal Medicine, 171(15): 1379-84, Aug. 8, 2011.
• Bruen B, Ku L, Burke M, Buntin M. More Than Four in Five Office-Based Physicians Could Quality for Federal Electronic Health Record Incentives. Health Affairs, 30(3): 472-80, Mar. 2011.
• Ku L, Jones K, Shin P, Bruen B, Hayes K.  The States’ Next Challenge — Securing Enough Primary Care for an Expanded Medicaid Population. New England Journal of Medicine 364(6):493-95, Feb. 10, 2011. Also supplementary appendix available at http://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMp1011623/suppl_file/nejmp1011623_appendix.pdf
• Ku L  Ready, Set, Plan, Implement.  Executing Medicaid’s Expansion Health Affairs, 29(6): 1173-77, June 2010.
• Ku L, Pervez F. Documenting Citizenship in Medicaid: The Struggle Between Ideology and Evidence, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 35(1): 5-28, February 2010.
• Ku L. Medical and Dental Care Utilization and Expenditures Under Medicaid and Private Health Insurance, Medical Care Research and Review, 66(4):456-71, August 2009.
• Ku L Health Insurance Coverage and Medical Expenditures for Immigrants and Native-Born Citizens in the United States, American Journal of Public Health, 99(7): 1322-28, July 2009.
• Ku L, Broaddus M. Public and Private Health Insurance: Stacking Up the Costs, Health Affairs, 27(4):w318-327, June 2008.
• Ku L Improving Health Insurance and Access to Care for Children in Immigrant Families, Ambulatory Pediatrics, 7(6):412-20, November 2007.
• Ponce, N.,  Ku L, Cunningham W, Brown ER. Language Barriers to Health Care Access Among Medicare Beneficiaries, Inquiry, 43(1):66–76, Spring 2006.
• Ku L, Flores G. Pay Now or Pay Later: Providing Interpreter Services In Health Care, Health Affairs, 24(2) 435-44, March/April 2005.
• Lessard G, Ku L. Gaps in Coverage for Children in Immigrant Families, The Future of Children, 13(1):101-115, Spring 2003.
• Ku L, St. Louis M, Black C, Aral S, Turner C, Lindberg L, Sonenstein F. Risk Behaviors, Medical Care and Chlamydial Infection Among Young Men in the United States, American Journal of Public Health, 92(7): 1140-42, July 2002.
• Ku L, Matani S. Left Out: Immigrants’ Access to Health Care and Insurance, Health Affairs, 20(1):247-56, Jan./Feb. 2001.
• Ku L, Ellwood M, Hoag S, Ormond B, Wooldridge J. The Evolution of Medicaid Managed Care Systems and Eligibility Expansions, Health Care Financing Review, 22(2):7-29, Winter 2000.
• Coughlin T, Ku L, Kim J., Reforming the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Program in the 1990s,  Health Care Financing Review, 22(2):137-58, Winter 2000.
• Ku L, Coughlin T, Sliding Scale Premium Health Insurance Programs: Four States’ Experience, Inquiry, 36(4):471-80, Winter 2000.

Selected Reports

Ku L, Kwon K, Krips M, Jacobs F. Public Insurance Funding Helped Sustain Community Health Centers in 2025, But Health Centers Are at High Risk in 2026 and 2027. https://geigergibson.publichealth.gwu.edu/76-public-insurance-funding-h…

Ku L.  Public Charge Restrictions for Immigrants and their Families: No Rules, No Accountability. Health Affairs Forefront.  Sept. 2, 2026. https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/public-charge-restricti…

Ku L.  Commentary: The Administration’s Flawed and Misleading Claims About Medicaid Work Requirements. Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health.  June 29, 2026.https://geigergibson.publichealth.gwu.edu/commentary-administrations-fl…

Ku L, Orgera K, Kwon K, Gorak T, Krips K, Cordes J.  H.R. 1 Funding Cuts Will Overshadow Gains from the New Rural Health Transformation Program. Commonwealth Fund. June 2026. https://doi.org/10.26099/6fqb-ha87 https://www.commonwealthfund.org/pub…

Ku L, Krips M, Silverman H.  Economic and Mortality Analyses of the DHS Proposed Rule: Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility. Center for Health Policy Research. George Washington University.  Dec. 3, 2025.  (Also included as part of the Public Health Deans and Scholars comment letter to the Department of Homeland Security on the public charge proposed rule, Dec. 19, 2025. This analysis was cited extensively in the July 20, 2026 DHS final regulation on public charge) https://hpmmatters.publichealth.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs6671/files/…

Ku L, Krips M, Kwon K, Jacobs F.   Widening Holes in the Safety Net: Community Health Centers at Risk. Nov. 10, 2025. https://geigergibson.publichealth.gwu.edu/widening-holes-safety-net-com…

Ku L.  South Carolina Medicaid Expansion Estimates – Revised.  Letter to Lynn Eickholt, CoverSC.  Nov. 3, 2025.

Ku L, Gorak T, Orgera K, Kwon K, Krips M, Cordes J.  Expiring ACA Premium Tax Credits Could Lead to Nearly 340,000 Jobs Lost Across the U.S. in 2026 Commonwealth Fund. Oct. 16, 2025. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2025/oct/exp…

Ku L, Herring J, Jacobs F.  Community Health Centers: Providing Care in the Most Disadvantaged Communities. Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health. September 15, 2025. https://geigergibson.publichealth.gwu.edu/community-health-centers-prov…

Ku L, Gorak T, Krips M, Reid A, Levi J.  Proposed Budget Cuts Not Only Hurt CDC and Public Health,

They Also Harm State and Local Economies and  Employment. Sept. 10, 2025. Center for Health Policy Research, GW. https://accountablehealth.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs6441/files/2025-0…

Ku L, Kwon K, Nketiah L, Gorak T, Krips M, Cordes J.  How Medicaid and SNAP Cutbacks in the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Would Trigger Big and Bigger Job Losses Across States. Commonwealth Fund.  June 23, 2025. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2025/jun/how…; [This report received substantial external attention and was featured in multiple media reports, including ABC news, Forbes, US News and World Report, etc. It was included in the record of a Congressional hearing.]

Barkoff A, Ku L.  SNAP Cuts Would Put Medicaid Services They Rely Upon at Further Endanger Medicaid For Disabled People, Older Adults. Health Affairs Forefront.  June 3, 2025. https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/house-snap-cuts-would-f…

Ku L, Gorak T, Kwon K, Krips M, Nketiah L, Cordes J. How National Medicaid Work Requirements Would Lead to Large-Scale Job Losses, Harm State Economies, and Strain Budgets.  Commonwealth Fund.  May 1, 2025. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2025/may/med…; [Note: This report also received extensive interest.  It was cited extensively in a report from Senator Warnock about Medicaid work requirements.]

Ku L, Kwon K, Nketiah L, Gorak T, Krips M, Cordes J. How Potential Federal Cuts to Medicaid and SNAP Could Trigger the Loss of a Million-Plus Jobs, Reduced Economic Activity, and Less State Revenue. Commonwealth Fund. March 25, 2025.  https://doi.org/10.26099/x2q9-7027 https://www.commonwealthfund.org/pub…; Data tables https://www.commonwealthfund.org/sites/default/files/2025-03/Ku_impact_…; [Note: This report received extensive media and policy attention, including coverage in Newsweek, Governing, and multiple newspaper, radio and video reports, including PBS, as well as interest from state governments and Congressional offices. Cited in advocacy by multiple groups, including Kaiser Permanente.]

Ku L, Gorak T, Kwon K, Nketiah L, Cordes J. The Cost of Eliminating the Enhanced Premium Tax Credits: Economic, Employment, and Tax Consequences.  Commonwealth Fund.  Mar. 3, 2025. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2025/mar/cos…

Ku L.  How Community Health Centers Lower Medical Costs and State Expenditures in Rhode Island. Center for Health Policy Research, George Washington Univ.  Oct. 15, 2024.

Ku L.  Declaration in Support of Intervenors, Texas, et al. vs. Dept of Homeland Security, et al, (regarding health effects of the Keeping Families Together process) in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division. October 16, 2024.

Ku L, Kwon K.  Continuous Medicaid Eligibility Improved Access to Mental Health Care.  Working Paper.  Association of Community Affiliated Plans.  Oct. 3, 2024. https://www.communityplans.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Medicaid-Cont…

Kwon KN, Nketiah L, Jacobs F, Rosenbaum S, Ku L.  Community Health Centers Grew Through 2023, But Serious Hazards Are on the Horizon. Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health. Policy Issue Brief #72.  September 17, 2024. https://geigergibson.publichealth.gwu.edu/72-community-health-centers-g…

Ku, L.  Economic and Employment Effects of Medicaid Expansion in South Carolina: A County-level Analysis.  CoverSC Coalition. July 2024.  https://www.coversc.org/economic-report/

Ku L, Rosenbaum S.  CBO’s Score for the Bipartisan Primary Care and Health Workforce Act Recognizes the Value of Primary Care Health Investments. Health Affairs Forefront, Mar. 21, 2024. https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/cbo-score-bipartisan-pr…

Ku L, Musumeci MB, Rosenbaum S.  Florida’s Medicaid Unwinding Lacks Fundamental Safeguards and Can Harm Population Health. Health Affairs Forefront, Dec. 1, 2023. https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/florida-s-medicaid-unwi…

Shin P, Morris R, Jacobs F, Ku L. Updated Estimates Show That Medicaid Unwinding Threatens Health Center Capacity to Serve Vulnerable Patients. Data Note.  November, 2023. https://geigergibson.publichealth.gwu.edu/updated-estimates-show-medica…

Ku L.  Declaration in Support of Intervenors, Texas, et al. vs. Biden et al, (regarding health effects of the Central American Minors Program) in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division.  October 11, 2023

Ku L.  Estimates of Costs and Savings Associated with Bipartisan Plan for Mandatory Funding Increases for Community Health Centers, Memo to Senate HELP Committee staff, Sept. 13, 2023.

Ku L, Dent R, Schenk E.  Financing of the Behavioral Health Workforce and Its Relation to Equity: Literature Review.  Report to Office of Behavioral Health Equity, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Aug. 31, 2023.  (Not public) [PR]

Greenough S, Ku L.  Access & Equity in Medicaid: Robust Primary Care is a Must. Washington DC: Primary Care Collaborative.  August 2023. https://thepcc.org/medicaid [PR]

Ku, L.  Declaration in Support of Intervenors, State of Texas, et al. vs. Department of Homeland Security, (regarding health effects of the asylee parole program for Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela) in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Victoria Division.  August 23, 2023.  (Case won at District Court level, March 2024.)

Ku L.  Preliminary Thoughts on Costs and Savings Associated with Community Health Centers. Memo to Senate HELP Committee staff. Feb. 23, 2023.  Included as part of testimony by Robert Nocon to the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on costs and savings of community health centers.  March 2, 2023.  https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Testimony-Nocon-CHCs%202023-0…

Platt I, Ku L. The End of the Continuous Enrollment Period in Montana.  Center for Health Policy Research.  Feb. 13, 2023.  http://gwhpmmatters.com/end-continuous-enrollment-period-montana

Ku L, Sharac J, Shin P, Rosenbaum S, Jacobs F. The Potential Effect of Medicaid Unwinding on Community Health Centers. Jan 2023. Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health.  Data Note. https://geigergibson.publichealth.gwu.edu/potential-effect-medicaid-unw…

Recommendations of the Standard Plans Advisory Working Group to the District of Columbia Health Benefit Exchange Authority, Nov. 2022. (Working group on lower cost-sharing for pediatric mental health benefits, chaired by L Ku.)  Led to Executive Board approval.  [PR] https://hbx.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/hbx/event_content/attac…

Ku L, Tyler F, Simon M.  Vaccines for Children Program: Early Legislative History and Future Innovations. Oct. 13, 2022. http://gwhpmmatters.com/vaccines-children-program-early-legislative-his…

Ku L, Rosenbaum S.  How Could Ending Access to the Courts Under Section 1983 Impact Medicaid Enrollees? Health Affairs Forefront, Sept. 13, 2022. https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/could-ending-access-cou…

Ku L, Sharac J, Morris R, Jacobs F, Shin P, Brantley R, Rosenbaum S.  The Value Proposition:

Evidence of the Health and Economic Contributions of Community Health Centers. Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative Policy Brief #68.  August 2022. https://geigergibson.publichealth.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs4421/file…

Ku L, Brantley E, Pryor S.  SNAP Will Also Unwind.  Health Affairs Forefront.  July 14, 2022. https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/forefront.20220712.461768

Ku L, Brantley E. Immigrants’ Progress: Changes in Public Charge Policies Can Promote the Economic Mobility of Immigrants and Their Contribution to the U.S. Economy. Social Science Research Network.  April 18, 2022. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4086782 (one of the top 10 downloaded papers in several sectors.)

Ku L, Brantley E.  The Economic and Employment Consequences of Phasing Down Medicaid Enrollment After the Public Health Emergency Ends.  Commonwealth Fund.  March 14, 2022. [PR] https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2022/what-are-economic-and-employ…