Faculty Spotlight: Brad Wright



Name: Brad Wright, PhD

Title(s) and Position(s): Assistant Professor, HMP and UI Public Policy Center

How long you have been teaching at Iowa: I joined the department in September 2012 and started teaching in August 2013.

Graduate Training: George Washington University (MS in Health Policy 2006); UNC-Chapel Hill (PhD in Health Policy & Management 2011); Brown University (Postdoc 2012)

Classes you teach: Intro to Healthcare Organization and Policy, Intro to the US Healthcare System, Health Policy (EMHA), Health Policy Analysis

Research Interests: Health Politics & Policy; Health Care Reform; Health & Health Care Disparities; Underserved Populations; Federally Qualified Health Centers; Medicare-Medicaid Dual Eligibles; Observation and Emergency Medicine; Patient and Public Involvement in Health Care; Primary Care; Hospital-Based Care

Current Projects:
2015 – 2017    Iowa Department of Human Services (Contract MED-15-004)
             Healthy Behaviors Incentive Program Evaluation
             $998,078
             PI: Askelson / Wright
2014 – 2016    NIH R21                                                          
                          Understanding Racial and Geographic Disparities in Hospital Observation Care
                          $445,513
                          PI: Wright
Recently Completed
2014 – 2016    ORHP Rural Health Research Center Cooperative Agreement
             Rural Health Clinic Care Impact on Preventable Hospitalization
                          $660,000
                          PI: Mueller
2015                 University of Iowa Faculty Development Award for Global Public Health
                          How Doctors Decide: Observation Care and Clinical Decision Making in
             Emergency Departments in the United States and the United Kingdom
             $14,908
             PI: Wright
Recent Awards: 2016 John D. Thompson Prize for Young Investigators from AUPHA; 2016 James N. Murray Award for excellence in research, teaching, and service from UI; 2015 Presidential Scholar, AcademyHealth Institute on Advocacy and Public Policy; 2012 – 2016 NIH Extramural Loan Repayment Program Award Recipient in Health Disparities

Why Iowa? The UI CPH is a great place to start a career—a highly ranked R1 research university where everyone is very collaborative—and Iowa City is a terrific place to raise a family.

If you could tell your younger self something, what would it be? I would go back to my teenage years and tell myself that the adults in my life really did have my best interests in mind, and that I should listen to them if I wanted to save myself a lot of headaches and heartaches. 

What would we be surprised to know about you? You might be surprised to know that I was once in a garage rock band called "Red Velvet Pants" that played a show that was shut down by the Durham, NC police. 


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