Research

My research falls into three general areas:

I evaluate relationships between other social service sectors and health, including policies addressing social determinants of health in the housing, education, and family services sectors.

I study how well Medicaid works in different settings, how Medicaid policy impacts wellbeing, and how Medicaid interacts with other sources of health coverage.

I document the experiences of families coping with chronic illness, including the burden of childhood conditions like congenital heart disease.

You can find a full list of my publications, presentations, professional experience, and works-in-progress on my CV, and my Google Scholar profile can be accessed at this link.

Selected peer-reviewed publications

Dragan KL. (2026) The Impact of Health Shocks on Housing Instability: Evidence from Urban Medicaid Enrollees. Journal of Health Economics. 108(2026): 103150.

Dragan KL, Ellen IG, and Glied SA. (2019) Gentrification and The Health of Low-Income Children in New York City. Health Affairs. 38(9):1425-1432.

Dragan KL, Desai SM, Billings J, and Glied SA. (2022) Association of Insurance Mix and Diagnostic Coding Practices in New York State Hospitals. JAMA Health Forum. 2;3(9):e222919.

Dragan KL and Glied SA. (2024) Major Traffic Safety Reform and Road Traffic Injuries among Low-income New York Residents, 2009-2021. American Journal of Public Health. 114(6):633-641.

Crook S, Dragan K, Woo JL, Neidell M, Jiang P, Cook S et al. (2023) Long-Term Health Care Utilization After Cardiac Surgery in Children Covered Under Medicaid. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 81(16):1605-1617

Hong K, Dragan K and Glied S. (2019) Seeing and Hearing: The Impacts of New York City’s Universal Prekindergarten Program on the Health of Low-Income Children. Journal of Health Economics. 64:93-107.

Selected working papers, white papers, book chapters, and commentaries

Dragan KL. (2025) Gentrification and Health: Evidence from New York City. In A Riberio, JP Silva, P Gullon, & T Astell-Burt (Eds.), Routledge Geographies of Health: Gentrification and Public Health. New York, NY: Routledge.

Scheckler S, Dragan KL, Molinsky J, and Herbert C. (2022) Health Spending Among Older Adults Before and After Mortgage Payoff. Working Paper WI21-10 for the Center for Financial Security, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dragan, K. (2018). Perspectives on Cross-Sector Collaboration from Academia and Government. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Policies for Action Blog. https://www.policiesforaction.org/blog/perspectives-cross-sector-collaboration-academia-and-government

Baquero M, Caramanica Zweig K, Meropol S, Vasan A, Delany-Brumsey A, Veras M, Chaitoo N, Vidal G, Demyan A, Davis C, Wang SS, Dragan K, Billings J. (2021). Health Care Needs and Utilization Among New Yorkers With Criminal Justice System Involvement. New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, and NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York, NY.

Sharp M, Dragan K, Billings J. (2018). The Right Prescription: Assessing Potentially Inappropriate Use of Antibiotics Among New York’s Medicaid Population. United Hospital Fund, New York, NY.

King L, Hinterland K, Dragan KL, Driver CR, Harris TG, Gwynn RC, Linos N, Barbot O, Bassett MT. (2015). New York City Community Health Profiles 2015; 13(1-59).

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