Gregory D. Stevens, PhD

Part Time Lecturer for the Department of Family Medicine

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Overview

Dr. Stevens is a health policy researcher, writer, teacher and advocate. He holds a MHS and PhD from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, with a focus on health care policy.

He currently focuses his efforts on teaching and writing, leading graduate courses on health policy, comparative health systems, and research and evaluation. He has served as consultant on these issues to local organizations, including L.A. Care Health Plan, Pasadena Child Health Foundation and Remote Area Medical.

He researches health care systems, primary health care, and health care quality, with a particular interest in these issues as they affect children. In addition to an R01 from the NIDDK, his research has been funded the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, First 5 California and the California Endowment among others.

He is an author of the book Vulnerable Populations in the United States and a regular contributor to the research and policy blog at the journal Medical Care.

Awards

  • Association for Schools and Programs of Public Health: Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health, 2015

Research Funding

  • Evaluating the Role of a Medical Home Model in the Successful Management of Diabe
    NIH · R01DK090397 · Feb 15, 2011 – Jan 31, 2015 · Role: Principal Investigator

Publications

  • Gradients in the health status and developmental risks of young children: the combined influences of multiple social risk factors. Matern Child Health J. 2006 Mar; 10(2):187-99.. View in PubMed
  • Access to care and children’s primary care experiences: results from a prospective cohort study. Health Serv Res. 2005 Dec; 40(6 Pt 1):1758-80.. View in PubMed
  • The parent-provider relationship: does race/ethnicity concordance or discordance influence parent reports of the receipt of high quality basic pediatric preventive services? J Urban Health. 2005 Dec; . View in PubMed
  • Disparities in access to care and satisfaction among U.S. children: the roles of race/ethnicity and poverty status. Public Health Rep. 2005 Jul-Aug; 120(4):431-41.. View in PubMed
  • Vulnerability and the receipt of recommended preventive services: the influence of multiple risk factors. Med Care. 2005 Feb; 43(2):193-8.. View in PubMed
  • Vulnerability and unmet health care needs. The influence of multiple risk factors. J Gen Intern Med. 2005 Feb; 20(2):148-54.. View in PubMed
  • Prevalence and correlates of high-quality basic pediatric preventive care. Pediatrics. 2004 Dec; 114(6):1522-9.. View in PubMed
  • America’s Health Centers: reducing racial and ethnic disparities in perinatal care and birth outcomes. Health Serv Res. 2004 Dec; 39(6 Pt 1):1881-901.. View in PubMed
  • Primary care access and quality: two sides of the same coin. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2004 Feb; 158(2):185.. View in PubMed
  • Caution urged in concluding disparities mitigated by increase in AA docs. J Natl Med Assoc. 2003 Aug; 95(8):755-6.. View in PubMed