Senior Research Associate
strickler@brandeis.edu • Heller-Brown Building • 263 • 781-736-3914
Expertise
Substance abuse
Scholarship
- Zeng W, Stason WB, Fournier S, Razavi M, Ritter G, Strickler, GK, Bhalotra SM, Shepard DS. "Benefits and costs of intensive lifestyle modification programs for symptomatic coronary disease in Medicare beneficiaries." American Heart Journal (2013). (forthcoming)
- Garner BR, Lwin AK, Strickler GK, Hunter BD, Shepard DS. "Cost-effectiveness of using pay-for-performance to improve treatment implementation for adolescent substance use disorders: Results from a cluster randomized trial." 3/1/2013.
Profile
A Senior Research Associate at the Schneider Institutes for Health Policy, Dr. Strickler earned a doctoral degree in Social Policy and a Master’s degree in Management of Human Services from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management. She has been a PEW Health Policy Fellow and a National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) trainee in the doctoral program at the Heller School. Her primary research interests include program evaluation and systems of health care for disadvantaged populations, including individuals with substance abuse disorders and/or disabilities, as well as other underserved persons.
She has over fifteen years of experience at Brandeis conducting both qualitative and quantitative research on a variety of health policy issues. She served as the Project Manager on the CMS-funded evaluation of the Medicare Lifestyle Modification Project Demonstration and was Lead Investigator on Sections II and III of Substance Abuse: The Nation’s Number One Health Problem, a substance abuse chartbook funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She was also recently Project Manager on a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) study on the cost-effectiveness of different types of substance abuse aftercare and co-investigator on a NIDA-funded study of gender and prescription drug abuse.
Degrees
Brandeis University
Ph.D.
Brandeis University
M.M.H.S.
Dartmouth College
B.A.