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

Media

Preventing Health Care that Almost Nobody Needs (09/28/2017)
Trying to Reduce Unnecessary Emergency Visits? First, Strengthen Our Primary Care System (05/26/2017)
The Person-Centered Wellness Home: Reflections on a Conversation with Dr. Thelma Mielenz (10/31/2016)
Tools to improve coordination in primary care (07/28/2016)
Is Care Coordination the Magic Bullet in Primary Care? (06/07/2016)
The Health Plans of the Democratic Presidential Candidates and How They May Affect Primary Care (03/28/2016)
How Primary Care Might Fare Under The Plans of the Two Leading Republican Presidential Contenders (03/16/2016)
Intersection of physician gender and quality of care (01/28/2016)
Enhancing research on primary care—finding common ground in clinical and health services research (11/13/2015)
Enhancing research on primary care—innovate on prevention and bring these news ideas to market (08/27/2015)
Enhancing research on primary care—why incorporate the perspectives and experiences of patients? (07/15/2015)
A vision for better primary care through neighborhood health stations in Rhode Island: a conversation with Dr. Michael Fine (03/15/2015)
Primary care finds its way into the spotlight (12/09/2014)
What Britain's 'lousy' NHS does better than America's system (08/10/2012)

Publications

Parents’ perceptions of pediatric primary care quality: effects of race/ethnicity, language, and access. Health Serv Res. 2003 Aug; 38(4):1009-31.. View in PubMed
Patient-provider racial and ethnic concordance and parent reports of the primary care experiences of children. Ann Fam Med. 2003 Jul-Aug; 1(2):105-12.. View in PubMed
Racial and ethnic disparities in the primary care experiences of children: a review of the literature. Med Care Res Rev. 2003 Mar; 60(1):3-30.. View in PubMed
Racial and ethnic disparities in the quality of primary care for children. J Fam Pract. 2002 Jun; 51(6):573.. View in PubMed
Effect of managed care on children’s relationships with their primary care physicians: differences by race. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2002 Apr; 156(4):369-77.. View in PubMed
Health outcomes and medicaid costs for frail older individuals: a case study of a MCO versus fee-for-service care. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2002 Feb; 50(2):382-8.. View in PubMed