Teaching
Teaching
Instructor and Course Designer
Introduction to Public Health, Wheaton College, Fall 2025
Description: This introductory course explores the way that culture shapes U.S. and world public health systems. We will discuss contemporary issues in public health using specific examples from current events. Students will be expected to evaluate these issues through both a cultural and a public health lens and identify potential interventions to address the issues, and their political, social, and economic implications.
STATA Coding Camp, Brown University, August 2022 and August 2023
Description: In this hands-on, two-week Stata “summer camp,” students will learn the fundamentals of Stata programming and perform health services research analyses on complex administrative claims and survey data.
Sheridan Teaching Seminar, Brown University, Fall 2024
Description: The Sheridan teaching seminar is a semester-long course for graduate students focused on inclusive and evidence-based teaching. The seminar covers foundational concepts in pedagogy, including establishing inclusive environments, principles of learning design, methods of evaluating learning, methods of student engagement, and classroom communication skills.
Teaching Assistant (TA)
Medicare: A Claims Data-Based Analysis, Brown University, Fall 2023
Description: This graduate-level course explores the role of Medicare as America's health insurer for the elderly and disabled through the use of real Medicare insurance claims data. Students will examine how Medicare policy changes in financing and regulation have affected the delivery and receipt of medical services. At the end of the course students will: 1) know the history of important Medicare policy changes; 2) be able to construct aggregated patient case mix acuity adjusted measures of provider quality using insurance claims data; and 3) be able to conduct policy analyses using Medicare claims data that are sensitive to standardized coding schemes.
Health Care in the United States, Brown University, Fall 2022
Description: This undergraduate level course provides an overview of the U.S. health care financing, delivery, and regulatory system. It considers the interaction between paying for and providing and assuring the quality of health services and how changes in one component of the system inevitably affect the others. It also addresses the balance between employer funded health insurance, publicly funded health insurance, and the consequences of not being insured.
Pedagogical Training
Sheridan Teaching Certificate, 2022
Description: The Sheridan teaching seminar is a semester-long course for graduate students focused on inclusive and evidence-based teaching. The seminar covers foundational concepts in pedagogy, including establishing inclusive environments, principles of learning design, methods of evaluating learning, methods of student engagement, and classroom communication skills.
Sheridan Course Design Seminar, 2024
Description: During this semester-long seminar, participants are guided through an integrated course design process to develop a syllabus and signature assignments for two courses. As participants move through the five modules of the seminar, they engage with colleagues from a variety of disciplines workshopping their course plans with one another.
During this seminar, I designed a syllabus for a class on Disability and the U.S. Healthcare system. Feel free to contact me for the syllabus!
Anti-Racist Teaching, 2024
Description: This four-week discussion-based seminar is provides training on how to navigate conversations about race in the classroom and anti-racist teaching.