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BIO - Dr. Darrell Gaskin
Department of African American Studies
University of Maryland
2169 LeFrak Hall
College Park, Maryland 20742
(301) 405-1158
(301) 314-9932 (Fax)
dgaskin@aasp.umd.edu
Associate Professor of Health Economics
African American Studies Department
University of Maryland, College Park
Darrell J. Gaskin is Associate Professor of Health of Economics at the University of Maryland at College Park in the African American Studies Department. His primary research interests are safety net hospitals, access to healthcare for minority, low-income, uninsured, and other vulnerable populations, and healthcare disparities. His primary aim is to promote policies and practices that improve access to care for the poor and other vulnerable populations, and that eliminate disparities in healthcare. His other research interests include the studying effects of managed care, other market forces and public policy on hospital behavior, mental health economics and the treatment decisions of terminally ill patients.
Dr. Gaskin is a nationally recognized expert on the hospital safety net. He was awarded the Academy Health 2002 Article-of-the-Year Award for his Health Services Research article entitled, "Are Urban Safety-Net Hospitals Losing Low-Risk Medicaid Maternity Patients?" Dr. Gaskin has written extensively on safety net hospitals, and access to care for minority and low income patients. He has published several articles evaluating access to care for low income children with special health care needs in the District of Columbia. He is currently working on a project on disparities in the quality of hospital care. He has studied disparities in prescription drug spending among Medicare beneficiaries.
Prior to coming to the University of Maryland, Dr. Gaskin served on the faculty of The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management as an Associate Professor and the Deputy Director of the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions. Also, he served as a Research Associate Professor in the Georgetown University Institute for Health Care Research and Policy. He earned his Ph.D. in health economics at The Johns Hopkins University, a MS degree in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BA degree in economics from Brandeis University. Dr. Gaskin was a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the U.S. Health System. Also, he serves on the Boards of Directors of the Maryland Health Insurance Plan and the Maryland Citizen's Health Initiative.
Selected Publications
Gaskin DJ, Frick KD. "Race and Ethnic Disparities in Valuing Health," Medical Decision Making forthcoming.
Schuster CR, Mitchell JM, Gaskin DJ. "Partially Capitated Managed Care versus Fee-for-Service for Special Needs Children: Does Care Coordination Available under Managed Care Matter?" Health Care Financing Review 28(4):109-123.
Mitchell JM and Gaskin DJ. 2007. "Caregivers' Ratings of Access: Do Children with Special Health Care Needs (SHCN) Fare Better Under Fee-for-Service or Capitated Managed Care?" Medical Care 45(2):146-153.
Gaskin DJ, Arbelaez JJ, Brown J, Petras H, Wagner F, and Cooper LA. 2007. "Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Site of Usual Source of Care." Journal of National Medical Association 99(1):22-30.
Stark SA, Gary TL, LaVeist TA, Gaskin DJ, Cooper LA. 2006 "Perceived Discrimination and Adherence to Medical Care in a Racially Integrated Community." Journal of General Internal Medicine 2007 Mar;22(3):389-95.
Frick KD, Shi L, Gaskin DJ. 2006. "What Level of Evidence of the Value of Care in Federally Qualified Health Centers is Necessary to Make Policy?" Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 1(1):75-82.
Gaskin DJ, Briesacher B, Limcangco R, and Brigantti BL. 2006. "Exploring Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Prescription Drug Spending and Use of among Medicare Beneficiaries." The American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotheraphy, 4(2):96-111.
Roberto PN, Mitchell JM, and Gaskin DJ. 2005. "Medicaid Fee-for-Service Versus Partially Capitated Managed Care: Does Plan Choice Affect Changes in Access to Care for SSI Eligible Children with Disabilities Over Time?" Inquiry 42:145-159.
Gaskin DJ and Mitchell JM. 2005. "Mental Health Status And Access To Care For Children With Special Health Care Needs," Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics 8 (1): 29-36.
Mitchell JM and Gaskin DJ, 2005. "Factors Affecting Plan Choice and Unmet Need among SSI Eligible Children with Disabilities," Health Services Research 40(5):1379-1399.
Gaskin DJ, Headen AE, and White-Means SI., "Racial Disparities in Health and Wealth: The Effects of Slavery and Past Discrimination." The Review of Black Political Economy, Winter/Spring 2005 97-112.
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