Kosali Simon is a Distinguished Professor, Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor, Paul O’Neill Chair, and Associate Vice Provost for Health Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington’s Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. She serves as Editor of the Journal of Health Economics and is recognized as a nationally known health economist. Simon earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1999 and her B.A. from Hamilton College in 1994. Prior to joining Indiana University in 2010, she held tenured faculty positions at Michigan State University and Cornell University. Key career milestones include her appointment as Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor in 2016, Associate Vice Provost for Health Sciences in 2019, Paul O’Neill Chair in 2022, and Indiana University Distinguished Professor in 2022. Her research in Business & Economics centers on health economics and policy, examining the effects of state and federal regulations on private and public health insurance access for vulnerable populations, alongside health and labor market outcomes. Core areas include policy analysis, public finance and economics, social policy, and health.

Simon’s scholarship has garnered over 13,900 citations on Google Scholar. Seminal publications include “Designing Difference-in-Difference Studies: Best Practices for Public Health Policy Research” (Annual Review of Public Health, 2018; 1,881 citations), “Determinants of Disparities in Early COVID-19 Job Losses” (Demography, 2022; 759 citations), “The Impact of Health Insurance on Preventive Care and Health Behaviors: Evidence from the First Two Years of the ACA Medicaid Expansions” (Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2017; 640 citations), “Macroeconomic Conditions and Opioid Abuse” (Journal of Health Economics, 2017; 470 citations), and “Crowd-out 10 Years Later: Have Recent Public Insurance Expansions Crowded out Private Health Insurance?” (Journal of Health Economics, 2008; 470 citations). Recent contributions address opioid treatment access, Medicaid unwinding effects, healthcare pricing transparency, and workforce dynamics, appearing in JAMA, Health Affairs, and Pediatrics. Honors include election to the National Academy of Medicine (2021), Congressional Budget Office Panel of Health Advisors (2021), Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management Policy Council academic representative (2016-2020), Addington Prize in Measurement (2013), Musgrave Prize (2012), and John D. Thompson Prize for Young Investigators (2007). She is a National Bureau of Economic Research research associate.

Professional Email: simonkos@iu.edu