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. 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 Policy Reports, Blogs and Other Translational Research and Analysis

• Ku L, Brantley E. The Evidence Does Not Support the Claim that the CMS COVID Vaccine Mandate Will Make It Impossible for Health Care Providers to Find or Keep Staff.  Dec. 14, 2021.  
• Liu H, Ku L.  Twelve-Month Continuous Eligibility for Medicaid Adults Can Stabilize Coverage with a Modest Cost Increase. RAND Blog.  Dec. 9, 2021.  https://www.rand.org/blog/2021/12/twelve-month-continuous-eligibility-for-medicaid-adults.html
• Regenstein M, Trott J, Acosta A, Ku L, Francasio C, Janson S.  Establishing a Preliminary Per Resident Amount Estimate for the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) Program.  Report to HRSA.  Sept. 22, 2021, revised Dec. 2021. 
• Rosenbaum S, Ku L, Brantley E, Handley M, Casoni M.  How the Medicaid Saves Lives Act and Other Federal Options Can Ensure All Americans Have Access to Affordable Coverage. Commonwealth Fund.  Aug. 5, 2021. 
• Unnamed co-author.  Amici Curiae Brief Of 33 Health Organizations, Providers, Researchers, And Scholars Supporting Appellants. For Doyle v. Tidball, (regarding Medicaid expansion in Missouri, based on ballot initiative and constitutional amendment).  Supreme Court of Missouri, July 13, 2021.  [The state Supreme Court unanimously found that the constitutional amendment to expand Medicaid – prompted by a ballot initiative – was valid, overturning a lower court decision.  As a result, about 275,000 Missourians will be covered.]
• Ku L, Brantley E.  The Economic and Employment Effects of Medicaid Expansions Under the American Rescue Plan.  Commonwealth Fund. May 21, 2021.  https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2021/may/economic-employment-effects-medicaid-expansion-under-arp?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Medicaid.  Technical appendix at https://www.commonwealthfund.org/sites/default/files/2021-05/Ku_economic_employment_effects_medicaid_expansion_ARP_TECHNICAL_APPENDIX.pdf. [There was substantial press coverage for this report, including both national and regional media, including public radio’s Marketplace.]
• Ku L, Brantley E.  Analysis of Montana SB 100 and Policies to Limit Medicaid 12-Month Continuous Eligibility.  April 7, 2021.  https://mthcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/analysis-of-SB-100-4-7-21.pdf
• Sharac J, Shin P, Ku L, Jacobs F, Rosenbaum S.  Community Health Centers Move to Frontline Providers of COVID-19 Immunization Services Under President Biden’s Health Center COVID-19 Vaccine Program. Geiger Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative Data Note.  Feb. 18, 2021.
• Brantley E, Ku L, Rosenbaum S, Handley M, Morris RE.  As the Biden Administration Begins Unwinding Them, Medicaid Work Experiments Remain Unreasonable, Unnecessary and Harmful. Health Affairs Blog.  Feb. 17, 2021.  https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20210216.717854/full/
• Rosenbaum S, Morris R, Brantley E, Ku L. The Trump Administration’s Deeply Flawed Assumptions That Underlie its Medicaid Compelled Work Experiments. February 2021. 
• Ku, L. Brantley E.  Analysis of the Impact of Dental Assignment of Benefit Laws. Report to the American Dental Association and Fleishman Hillard. December 2, 2020.
• Ku, L.  Declaration in Support of Plaintiffs,  State of New York, et a v Donald Trump, et al.  (regarding health harm of postal service delays) in United States District Court for the District of Columbia, September 1, 2020.
• Ku, L.  Declaration in Support of Plaintiffs,  Domingo A. Gomez, et al v. Donald J. Trump, et al., (regarding Presidential Proclamations about limiting entry of immigrants in light of COVID-19 pandemic) in United States District Court for the District of Columbia, July 29, 2020.
• Ku L.  Estimates of Insurance Coverage and Delays in Medical Care for the Nation and District of Columbia, May 21 – June 16, 2020.  For DC Health Benefits Exchange Authority.  July 5, 2020. https://hbx.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/hbx/event_content/attachments/Estimates%20of%20Insurance%20Coverage%20and%20Delays%20in%20Medical%20Care_1.pdf
• Ku L, Brantley E.  Continuous Medicaid Eligibility for Children and Their Health. Association of Community Affiliated Plans.  May 2020.  https://www.communityplans.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/GW-continuous-eligibility-paper.pdf
• Ku L, Brantley E.  Widening Social and Health Inequalities During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Health Forum.  June 10, 2020.  https://jamanetwork.com/channels/health-forum/fullarticle/2767253?utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jhf&utm_content=olf&utm_term=061120
• Ku, L.  Declaration in Support of Plaintiffs,  New York vs. Department of Labor, et al.  (regarding regulations about paid sick and family leave under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act), United States District Court, Southern District of New York, May 4, 2020.
• Ku L.  Declaration in Support of Respondents, Department of Homeland Security v New York, et al. (regarding public charge rule and injunction).  Supreme Court of the United States.  April 10, 2020.  (subsequently used again in U.S, District Court of Southern New York and cited in decisions.)
• Ku L.  Assessing the Presidential Proclamation on Visas and Health Insurance.  Health Affairs Blog. Dec. 17, 2019.  https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20191217.16090/full/
• Ku L.  Declaration in Support of Respondents, Department of Homeland Security v New York, et al. (regarding public charge rule and injunction).  Supreme Court of the United States.  April 10, 2020.  u L.  Assessing the Presidential Proclamation on Visas and Health Insurance.  Health Affairs Blog. Dec. 17, 2019.  https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20191217.16090/full/
• Ku L. Declaration in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for a Preliminary Injunction (regarding Presidential Proclamation on Visas and Health Insurance), John Doe #1, et al. v Donald Trump, et al.  United States District Court, District of Oregon, filed November 8, 2019.  (Cited in November 26 court decision)

• Ku L. Brantley E.  Indiana’s Medicaid Work Requirements Program Is Expected to Cause Tens of Thousands to Lose Coverage.  Oct. 28, 2019. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2019/indianasmedicaid-work-requirement-program-expected-cause-tens-thousands-lose-coverage

  Ku L.  Op-Ed: Medicaid Expansion Can and Does Expand Access to Care.  Capitol Broadcasting Corporation.  Oct. 16, 2019. Similar letter to the Editor, Raleigh News and Observer,. Oct. 16, 2019.  https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article236193038.html

  Ku L. New Evidence Demonstrating That the Public Charge Rule Will Harm Immigrant Families and Others.  Health Affairs Blog. October 9, 2019. https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20191008.70483/full/

  Ku L, Bruen B, Brantley E.  The Economic and Employment Benefits of Expanding Medicaid in North Carolina: A 2019 Update.  Cone Health Foundation and Kate B Reynolds Charitable Trust. June 26, 2019.  

• Ku L, Brantley E. Approved Medicaid Work Requirement Demonstration Projects in Nine States Could Cause About 600,000 to 800,000 Adults to Lose Medicaid Coverage. Commonwealth Fund. Blog.  June 21, 2019.  https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2019/medicaid-work-requirements-nine-states-could-cause-600000-800000-adults-lose-coverage
• Rosenbaum S, Rothenberg S, Velasquez M, Ku L, Brantley E.  Are 1115 Medicaid Work Requirement Demonstrations Experimental Initiatives or a Way to Side-Step Congress? June 6, 2019.  
• Ku L, Brantley E.  New Hampshire’s Medicaid Work Requirements Could Cause More than 15,000 to Lose Coverage.  Commonwealth Fund Blog.  May 9, 2019. [PR] https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2019/new-hampshires-medicaid-work-requirements-could-cause-coverage-loss
• Chen CP, Ku, L, Regenstein M, Mullan F.  Examining the Cost Effectiveness of Teaching Health Centers. Geiger Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative.  Policy Brief #58.  March 2019.
• Ku L, Brantley E.  Proposed Work Requirements in Montana’s Medicaid Program: An Update.  Mar. 15, 2019, revised.
• Ku L (primary author) and many co-signers. Comment Letter to Food and Nutrition Service, USDA on
• Proposed Rule: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Requirements for Able-Bodied Adults without Dependents, RIN 0584-AE57, Submitted thru regulations.gov.  March 15, 2019.
• Ku L, Brantley E.  Potential Effects of Work Requirements in Montana’s Medicaid Program.  Montana Healthcare Foundation. Feb. 13, 2019.  https://mthcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Potential-Effects-of-Work-Requirements-in-Montana%E2%80%99s-Medicaid-Program-Ku-Brantley-2-13-19.pdf.
• Ku L, Brantley E.  Updated Estimates of the Effects of Medicaid Work Requirements in Kentucky.  GW Health Policy Matters.  Jan. 4, 2019. 
• Ku L (primary author) and many co-signers. Comment Letter to US Department of Homeland Security: RIN 1615-AA22 “Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds”. Dec. 9, 2018.
• Ku L, Sharac J, Gunsalus R, Shin P, Rosenbaum S.  How Could the Public Charge Proposed Rule Affect Community Health Centers? Policy Brief # 55.  Geiger Gibson RCHN Community Health Research Collaborative.  Nov 2018.  https://publichealth.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/GGRCHN/Public%20Charge%20Brief.pdf
• Ku L, Pillai D.  The Economic Mobility of Immigrants: Public Charge Rules Could Foreclose Future Opportunities.  Nov. 15, 2018. Social Science Research Network.   http://ssrn.com/abstract=3285546
• Ku L, Brantley E, Steinmetz E, Bruen B, Pillai D.  Medicaid Work Requirements: Will They Help the Unemployed Get Jobs or Improve Health.  Issue Brief.  Commonwealth Fund. Nov. 2018  https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2018/nov/medicaid-work-requirements-will-they-help-jobs-health
• Brantley E, Ku L.  Arkansas’ Early Experience with Work Requirements Signals Larger Losses to Come.
• Commonwealth Fund Blog.  Oct. 31, 2018.  https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2018/arkansas-early-experience-work-requirements
• Ku L (primary author). Brief of the Amici Curiae Public Health Scholars in Support of Plaintiff-Appellant
• the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.  Filed in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, et al. to the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Sept. 24, 2018.
• Vyas A, Wood SF, Landry M, Masselink L, Mead H, Ku L. District of Columbia Family Planning Community Needs Assessment. Conducted by The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health for Washington Area Women’s Foundation, DC Family Planning Project. Sept. 2018.  [PR] https://thewomensfoundation.org/2018/new-report-family-planning-communi…
• Erikson C, Han X, Ku L, Pittman P.  Contribution of the National Health Service Corps Providers and Alumni to Medicare Beneficiaries in 2015.  GW Health Workforce Institute.  Aug. 2018. https://user-niv7hdi.cld.bz/Contribution-of-the-NHSC-Providers-and-Recent-Alumni-to-Medicare-Beneficiaries-in-2015/2/
• Brantley E, Ku L.  A First Glance at Medicaid Work Requirements in Arkansas: More Than One-Quarter Did Not Meet Requirement.  Health Affairs Blog.  Aug. 13, 2018. 
• https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20180812.221535/full/
• Ku L, Shin P, Sharac J, Rosenbaum S. Legacy Community Health Services v Smith:  What are the National Implications for Community Health Centers and Their Communities? Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative Policy Research Brief # 53. August 2018. 
• Ku L, Steinmetz E.  State Economic and Employment Losses If Community Health Center Funding Is Not Restored.  Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health  Foundation Research Collaborative Policy Research Brief # 51.  Dec. 4, 2017.  
• Ku L.  May You Live in Interesting Times: The Challenges of Health Policy Analysis in a Turbulent Period.  GW Health Policy Matters.  Oct. 2, 2017. 
• Ku L, Steinmetz E, Brantley E, Pillai D. The Graham-Cassidy Proposal Would Eliminate a Third of a Million Jobs, To the Point, The Commonwealth Fund, Sept. 26, 2017.
• Ku L, Seiler N.  Medicaid Expansions Help States Cope with the Opioid Epidemic.  GW Dept of Health Policy and Management.  July 25, 2017. 
• Ku L, Steinmetz E, Brantley E, Holla N, Bruen B.  The Better Care Reconciliation Act: Economic and Employment Consequences for States.  Commonwealth Fund, July 6, 2017. 
• Ku L, Steinmetz E, Brantley E, Holla N, Bruen B.  The American Health Care Act: Economic and Employment Consequences for States.  Commonwealth Fund, June 14, 2017. 
• Ku L, Paradise J, Thompson V.  Data Note: Medicaid’s Role in Providing Access to Preventive Care for Adults. Kaiser Commission for Medicaid and the Uninsured.  May 17, 2017. 
• Ku L, Brantley E.  Medicaid Work Requirements: Who’s at Risk?  Health Affairs Blog, April 12, 2017. 
• Ku L, Brantley E.  Myths about the Medicaid Expansion and the “Able-Bodied.” Health Affairs Blog, March 6, 2017.  http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2017/03/06/myths-about-the-medicaid-expansion-and-the-able-bodied/
• Bennett J, Brown C, Ku L, Bruen B.  The Economic, Fiscal and Employment Effects of Health Care Modernization in Oklahoma.  State Chamber (of Commerce) Research Foundation.  Feb. 1, 2017.
• Ku L Steinmetz E, Brantley E, Bruen B.  Repealing Federal Health Reform: The Economic and Employment Consequences for States.  Brief, Commonwealth Fund, Jan. 6, 2017. 
• Ku L Steinmetz E, Brantley E, Bruen B.  The Economic and Employment Consequences of Repealing Federal Health Reform: A 50 State Analysis.  Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University.  Jan. 6, 2017. 
• Ku L, Steinmetz E, Bruen B. Changes in Insurance Coverage and Cardiovascular Risk for U.S. Adults in States Expanding and Not Expanding Medicaid. Dec. 2016  George Washington University and American Heart Association. 
• Ku L.   DC Health Link Has Expanded Health Insurance Coverage In The District.  DC Health Benefits Exchange Authority, Sept. 29, 2016 [no author listed]
• Ku L. Up in smoke: We’ll spend billions tomorrow for not helping poor people quit smoking today, The Conversation.  July 12, 2016. 
• Regenstein M, Jewers M, Nocella K, Goldberg D, Strasser J, Ku L, Mullan F.  Cost Estimates for Training a Resident in a Teaching Health Center.  Report to HRSA.  GW Dept. of Health Policy and Management, Feb. 2016.
• Ku L, Steinmetz, E, Bysshe T.  Continuity of Medicaid Coverage in an Era of Transition, Washington, DC: Association of Community Affiliated Plans, Nov. 1, 2015.
• Ku L, Bysshe T, Steinmetz E, Bruen B.  Health Reform and the Implications for Cancer Screening.  Report to American Cancer Society, Sept. 2015
• Ku L, Bysshe T, Wu. X.  The Changing Community Health Center Workforce: 2007-13, GW Health Workforce Research Center, Sept. 22, 2015.
• Ku L, Mullan F, Serrano C, Barber Z, Shin P.  Teaching Health Centers: A Promising Approach for Building Primary Care Workforce for the 21st Century.  Geiger Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative Policy Research Brief # 40, March 10, 2015. 
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