Lori Post
Buehler Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Social Sciences, Director, Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics at the Institute for Public Health and Medicine
- Developed psychometrics of elder abuse, neglect, exploitation, psychological, emotional and sexual abuse of older adults
- Develops psychometrics for various constructs of elder abuse, functional and cognitive status for community dwelling older adults
- Continually works to define “public will” and “political will” and how to operationalize them for social change
- Can review policy and explain why it is working or not working
- Examines economic drivers of the opioid epidemic by looking at how pharmaceutical companies incentivize physicians to write opioid prescriptions, resulting in increased prescriptions and overdose deaths
- Examines adverse health outcomes of food insecurity and how they result in human right's violations, including female genital mutilation, child marriages, widow cleansing and witch hunting
- Tracks mass shooting and massacre data and trends in a gun violence database from 1982 to present
