Senior Fellow
Health Policy Center
The Urban Institute
202-261-5417; ldubay@urban.org
Education
2006 Ph.D. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of
Health Policy and Management
1987 Sc.M. Harvard School of Public Health/Health Policy and Management
1981 B.A. Tufts University, Medford, MA/Sociology (with Honors, Cum Laude)
Career Brief
Lisa Dubay, Ph.D., Sc.M., is Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute. Dr. Dubay recently returned to the Urban Institute after being an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Special Advisor in the Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
Dr. Dubay is a nationally recognized expert on the Medicaid and CHIP programs. She is a health services researcher who has focused on evaluating the effects of public policies on access to care, health care utilization, health outcomes and health insurance coverage using quasi-experimental designs. She is currently involved in major evaluations of delivery system reform where she is a principal member of the quantitative design team for the project Measurement, Monitoring, and Evaluation of State Demonstrations to
Integrate Care for Dual Eligible Individuals through CMMI. In addition, she is leading the quantitative impact analysis of the Strong Start II demonstration testing the use of alternative evidence based prenatal care delivery practices on birth outcomes for Medicaid covered women.
Dr. Dubay co-directs the Urban Institute’s initiative on the Social Determinants of Health where she works with researchers across the Institute’s policy centers. She has written extensively on race, income and place based disparities in health and the environments in which individuals, live, learn, work and play.
Professional Background
July 2011 – Present
July 2011 – June 2014
Senior Fellow, The Urban Institute
Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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June 2010 – June 2011
August 2008 – June 2010
Special Advisor to the Deputy Assistant for Planning and Evaluation for Health Policy, US Department of
Health and Human Services
Director of Policy Studies, Department of Health
August 2006 – June 2011
Policy and Management, The Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Associate Professor, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
July 2003 – July 2006
January 1995 – June 2003
School of Public Health
Principal Research Associate, The Urban Institute
Senior Research Associate, The Urban Institute
January 1990 – December 1994 Research Associate I, The Urban Institute
July 1987 - December 1989 Research Associate II, The Urban Institute
Publications
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Bower, Kelley M, Roland J Thorpe Jr, Gayane Yenokyan, Elizabeth McGinty, Lisa Dubay,
Darrell Gaskin. “Racial Residential Segregation and Disparities in Obesity among
Women.” Journal of Urban Health. 2015 Aug 13. [Epub ahead of print]
Selden, Thomas, Lisa Dubay, Edward Miller, Jessica Vistnes, Matthew Buettgens, and
Genevieve Kenney. “ Many Families May Face Sharply Higher Costs if Public Health
Insurance for Their Children is Rolled Back.” Health Affairs (Millwood). 2015 2015
Apr;34(4):697-706
McMorrow Stacy, Genevieve M Kenney, Nathaniel Anderson, Lisa Clemans-Cope, Lisa
Dubay, Sharon K Long, Douglass Wissoker. “Trade-offs Between Public and Private
Coverage for Low-income Children Have Implications for Future Policy Debates.” Health
Affairs (Millwood). 2014 Aug1;33(8):1367-74.
Gaskin Darrel, Roland J Thorpe Jr., Elizabeth McGinty, Kelly Bower-Joffe, Charles
Rohde, Hunter Young, and Lisa Dubay.
“
Disparities in Diabetes - The Nexus of Race,
Poverty, and Place.” American Journal of Public Health . 2013 Nov 14 [Epub ahead of print].
Dubay, Lisa and Lydie Lebrun. “Disparities in Health Status, Health Behaviors, and
Health Care Utilization: Disentangling the Effects of Socioeconomic Status from
Race/ethnicity.” International Journal of Health Services December 2012. 2012;42(4):607-
25.
Mistry, Kamila, Sarah Johnson, Anne Riley, Lisa Dubay, Cynthia Minkovitz, Holly

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Grason, Bernard Guyer.
“ A New Framework for Child Health Promotion – The Role of
Policies and Programs in Building Capacity and Foundations of Early Child Health.
”
American Journal of Public Health, 2012 Sep;102(9):1688-96.
Ma, Sai, Kevin Frick, Sara Bleich, and Lisa Dubay. “Racial Disparities in Medical
Expenditures within Body Weight Categories.” Journal of General Internal Medicine, epub in advance of print Jan 26, 2012.
Phelan, Darcy, John Boitnott, Douglass Clark, Lisa Dubay LC, Patti Gravitt. Trends of
Human Papillomavirus Testing in Cervical Cancer Screening at a Large Academic
Cytology Laboratory.” Obstet Gynecol, 118(2 Pt 1):2011.
Lebrun, Lydie and Lisa Dubay. “Access to Primary and Preventive Care among Foreign-
Born Adults in Canada and the United States.” Health Services Research, 45(6 Part 1):
2010.
Howell, Embry, Lisa Dubay, Ian Hill, and Christopher Trenholm. “The Impact of New
Health Insurance Coverage on Undocumented and Other Low-Income Children:
Lessons from Three California Counties.” Journal of Health Care for the Poor and
Underserved, 21(2 Suppl): 2010.
Bowie Janice, Haesoon Juon, Lisa Dubay, Lydie Lebrun, Barbara Curbow, Roland
Thorpe, Thomas LaVeist. “Cancer Prevention Behaviors in Low-Income Urban Whites:
An Understudied Problem. Journal of Urban Health, 86(6):2009.
Dubay, Lisa, and Genevieve Kenney. “The Impact of CHIP on Children's Insurance
Coverage: An Analysis Using the National Survey of America's Families.” Health Services
Research, 44(6):2009.
Hill Ian, Lisa Dubay, Embry Howell, Genevieve Kenney, Louise Palmer, Bridgett Courtort
“Improving Insurance Coverage and Access to Care for Undocumented Latino Children.”
Health Affairs, 27(2):2008.
Sommers Anna, Lisa Dubay, Linda Blumberg, Fredric Blavin and John Czajka.
“Dynamics in Medicaid and SCHIP Eligibility Among In SCHIP’s Infancy: Implications for Reauthorization.” Health Affairs, 26(5) 2007.
Dubay, Lisa, Jocelyn Guyer, Cindy Mann, Michael Sami-Odeh. “Medicaid at the 10 Year
Anniversary of SCHIP: Looking Back and Moving Forward.” Health Affairs, 26(2): 2007.
Sommers, Anna, Steve Zuckerman, and Lisa Dubay. “Substitution of SCHIP for Private
Coverage: Results from an Evaluation of SCHIP in Ten States.” Health Affairs, 26(2): 2007
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Dubay, Lisa, John Holahan and Allison Cook. “The Uninsured and the Affordability of
Health Insurance Coverage.” Health Affairs, Nov 30: 2006.
Hadley, Jack, James Reschovsky, Peter Cunningham, Genevieve Kenney and Lisa Dubay.
"Insurance Premiums and Insurance Coverage of Near-Poor Children," Inquiry 43(4):
2006-2007.
Sommers, Anna, Genevieve Kenney, and Lisa Dubay. “The Impact of Medicaid Managed
Care on Birth Outcomes in Missouri.” Managed Care Review, 11(7): 2005.
Kenney, Genevieve, Anna Sommers, and Lisa Dubay. “Moving to Mandatory Medicaid
Managed Care in Ohio: Impacts for Pregnant Women and Infants.” Medical Care, 43(7):
2005.
Davidoff Amy, Genevieve Kenney, and Lisa Dubay. “The Impact of SCHIP on Children with Chronic Health Conditions.” Pediatrics, 116(1): 2005.
Kaestner, Robert, Lisa Dubay and Jenny Kenney. "Managed Care and Infant Health: An
Evaluation of Medicaid in the US." Social Science and Medicine 60(8): April 2005.
Fairbrother, Gerry, Genevieve Kenney, Karla Hanson, and Lisa Dubay. “How Do
Stressful Family Environments Relate to Access and Use.” Medical Care Research and
Review, 62(2): April 2005.
Dubay, Lisa and Genevieve Kenney. “Gains in Children’s Health Insurance Coverage but
Additional Progress Needed.” Pediatrics, 114(5): November 2004.
Howell, Embry, Lisa Dubay, Genevieve Kenney, and Anna Sommers. “The Impact of
Medicaid Managed Care On Pregnant Women in Ohio: A Cohort Analysis.” Health
Services Research, 39 (4 Pt 1): Aug 2004.
Dubay, Lisa and Genevieve Kenney. “Addressing Health Insurance Coverage Gaps for
Parents.” Health Affairs, 32(2): Mar-April 2004.
Dubay, Lisa, Christina Moylan and Thomas Oliver. “Covering the Uninsured: Can States
Take the Lead?” Journal of Law and Health Care Policy, 7(1): 2004.
Davidoff, Amy, Lisa Dubay, Genevieve Kenney, Alshedye Yemane. “The Effect of
Parent’s Insurance Coverage on Access to Care for Low Income Children.” Inquiry, 40(3):
Fall 2003.
Dubay, Lisa and Genevieve Kenney. “Expanding Public Health Insurance to Parents:

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Effects on Children’s Coverage Under Medicaid.” Health Services Research, 38 (5): Oct
2003.
Holahan, John, Lisa Dubay and Genevieve Kenney. “Which Children Are Still
Uninsured and Why?” Future of Children, Spring (13)1: 2003.
Dubay, Lisa, Robert Kaestner, and Timothy Waidmann. “Medical Malpractice Liability and Its Effect on Access to Obstetrical Care and Infant Health.” Journal of Health
Economics, (20)4: 2001.
Almeida, Ruth, Lisa Dubay, Grace Ko. “Access to and Use of Health Services Among
Low-Income Women.” Health Care Financing Review, (22)4: Summer 2001.
Dubay, Lisa, Theodore Joyce, Robert Kaestner, Genevieve M. Kenney. “Changes in
Prenatal Care Timing and Low Birth Weight by Race and Socioeconomic Status:
Implications for the Medicaid Expansions for Pregnant Women,” Health Services
Research, June 2001.
Dubay, Lisa and Genevieve Kenney. “Health Care Access and Use Among Low Income
Children: Who Fares Best ?” Health Affairs, 20(1): 2000.
Kenney, Genevieve, Stephen Zuckerman, Lisa Dubay, Jennifer Haley, and John Holahan.
"Shifting Health Insurance Coverage, 1997-1999: Evidence from the National Survey of
America's Families." Health Affairs, 20(1): 2000.
Dubay, Lisa and Genevieve Kenney. “Assessing the Impact of CHIP Using Household
Surveys: Promises and Pitfalls.” Health Services Research, December 2000.
Blumberg, Linda, Lisa Dubay, and Stephen Norton. “Did the Medicaid Expansions
Displace Private Coverage?: An Analysis Using the Survey of Income and Program
Participation.” The Journal of Health Economics, 19(2000) 33-60.
Dubay, Lisa, Robert Kaestner, and Timothy Waidmann. “The Impact of Malpractice Fears on Cesarean Section Rates.” The Journal of Health Economics, 18 (1999) 491-522.
Dubay, Lisa and Genevieve Kenney. “Did the Medicaid Expansions for Pregnant Women
Crowd-out Private Insurance?” Health Affairs Volume 16, No. 1, January/February 1997.
Dubay, Lisa, and Genevieve Kenney. “The Effects of Medicaid Expansions on Insurance
Coverage of Children. “ The Future of Children Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 1996.
Bovbjerg, Randall, Lisa Dubay, Genevieve Kenny, and Stephen Norton. “Defensive
Medicine and Tort Reform: New Evidence in an Old Bottle.” Journal of Health Politics

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Policy and Law 21(2):267-288. Summer 1996.
Dubay, Lisa, Genevieve Kenney, Stephen Norton, and Barbara Cohen. “Local Responses to Medicaid Expansions to Pregnant Women.” Milbank Quarterly 73(4):535-564. Winter
1995.
Dubay, Lisa, Stephen Norton, and Marilyn Moon. “The Impact of the Medicaid
Expansions: Easing Hospital Burdens?” Inquiry Vol. 32, No. 3 (Fall 1995).
Dubay, Lisa. “Use of Medicare's Skilled Nursing Benefit in Rural and Urban Areas: Is it
Different?” Health Care Financing Review Vol. 14, No. 4 (Summer 1993).
Dubay, Lisa. “Explaining Urban-Rural Differences in SNF Benefit Use.” Medical Care
Vol. 31, No. 2 (February 1993).
Kenney, Genevieve and Lisa Dubay. “The Determinants of Market Variation in Home
Health Utilization.” Medical Care Vol. 30, No. 1, 1992.
Bishop, Christine and Lisa Dubay. “Access of Medicare Patients to Post-Hospital SNF
Care.” Inquiry Vol. 28, No. 4, 1991.
Dubay, Lisa. Changes in Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility Benefit Admissions from 1983 to 1985.” Health Care Financing Review Vol. 12, No. 2, 1990.
Cohen, Joel and Lisa Dubay. “The Effects of Medicaid Reimbursement Method and
Ownership on Nursing Home Costs, Case Mix, and Staffing.” Inquiry Vol. 27, No. 2, 1990.
Welch, W. P. and Lisa Dubay. “The Cost Impact of Administratively Necessary Days.”
Medical Care Vol. 27, No. 12, 1989.
Holahan, John, Lisa Dubay, Genevieve Kenney, W. P. Welch, Christine Bishop, and Avi
Dor. “Should Medicare Compensate Hospitals for Administratively Necessary Days.” The
Milbank
Quarterly Vol. 67, No. 1, 1989.
Monographs
Dubay, Lisa. “The Effects of Socio-economic Position on Child Health and Functioning.”
Doctoral Dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, 2006.
Articles, Editorials, and Blogs

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Dubay, Lisa and Heather Sandstrom. “Child Poverty Continues to be High and the
Impacts on Development are Concerning.” Metrotrends Blog, September 20, 2013.
http://blog.metrotrends.org/2013/09/child-poverty-continues-high-impacts-development/
Dubay, Lisa. “The Census Bureau’s Coverage Numbers: What Do They Tell Us?”
Requested commentary Health Affairs Blog after release of the CPS coverage estimates. http://healthaffairs.org/blog/author/dubay/
Dubay, Lisa. “It is Up to the Democrats.” Requested commentary New York Times Room
For Debate: Did Obama Move Health Care Reform Forward with the State of the Nation. http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/did-obama-move-health-care-forward/
Dubay, Lisa. “An Impossible Task.” Requested commentary New York Times Room For
Debate: Grading the Baucus Health Plan. http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/grading-the-baucus-health-plan/
Dubay, Lisa. “What Does “Affordable” Mean.” Requested commentary New York Times
Room For Debate: What was Missing from the President’s Speech to the Joint Session of
Congress on Health Care Reform. http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/what-was-missing-in-obamasspeech/?scp=1&sq=Dubay&st=cse
Dubay Lisa. “Drawbacks in Mr. McCain’s Health Plan.” The Washington Post, October
12, 2008 pB-6 (Letter to the Editor).
Dubay, Lisa and Timothy Waidmann. “Data for a Better Debate on Medical Malpractice.”
The Washington Post, January 26, 2005, pA-20 (Letter to the Editor).
Dubay, Lisa and Genevieve Kenney. “Scare Talk About ‘Crowd-Outs’.” The
Washington Post August 28, 1997 pA-21 (Op-Ed).
Book Chapters
Dubay, Lisa. “Expanding Public Insurance Coverage and Crowd-Out: A Review of the
Evidence.” In Options for Expanding Health Insurance Coverage: What Difference Do
Different Approaches Make?, co-edited by Judith Feder and Sheila Burke. Washington,
DC: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 1999.
Wooldridge, Judith, Leighton Ku, Teresa Coughlin, Lisa Dubay, Marilyn Ellwood, Shruti
Rajan, and Sheila Hoag. “Reforming State Medicaid Programs: First-Year
Implementation Experiences from Three States.” In Contemporary Managed Care:
Readings in Structure, Operations, and Public Policy, edited by Marsha Gold. Health
Administration Press: Chicago, 1998.

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Ku, Leighton, Judith Wooldridge, Shruti Rajan, Marilyn Ellwood, Lisa Dubay, Teresa
Coughlin, Sheila Hoag, and Susan Wall. “The New Generation of Statewide Medicaid
Managed Care Programs: State Health Reform Projects in Hawaii, Oklahoma, Rhode
Island, and Tennessee.” In Remaking Medicaid: Managed Care for the Public Good , co-edited by Somers and Davidson. Jossey-Bass Publishers: San Francisco, 1998.
Policy Briefs and Reports
Aron, Laudan, Lisa Dubay. Emily Zimmerman, Sarah Simon, Derek Chapman, Steven H.
Woolf. “Can Income Related Policy Improve Population Health?” Washington, DC: The
Urban Institute, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, April 2015.
Steven H. Woolf, Laudan Y. Aron, Lisa Dubay, Sarah M Simon, Emily Zimmerman, Kim
Luk.
“How are Income and Wealth Linked to Health and Longevity?” Washington, DC: The
Urban Institute, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, April 2015.
Dubay, Lisa, Matthew Buettgens, and Genevieve Kenney. “Estimates of Coverage
Changes for Children Enrolled in Separate Children’s Health Insurance Programs in the
Absence of Additional Federal CHIP Funding – Key Findings and Methodology.”
Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, April 2015
Buettgens, Matthew, Lisa Dubay, Genevieve Kenney, and Jay Dev. “Children’s Coverage at Risk: The Implications of a Supreme Court Ruling for the Plantiff in King v. Burwell and a Contraction of Medicaid and CHIP.” Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, April
2015.
Lisa Dubay and Nikhil Holla. “Absenteeism in DC Public School Head Start Programs:
An Update for School Year 2013-2014.” Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, January
2015.
Genevieve M. Kenney, Joan Alker, Nathaniel Anderson, Stacey McMorrow, Sharon K.
Long, Douglas A. Wissoker, Lisa Clemans-Cope, Lisa Dubay, Michael Karpman, Tricia
Brooks. “A First Look at Children's Health Insurance Coverage under the ACA in 2014.”
Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, September 2014.
Genevieve M. Kenney, Nathaniel Anderson, Sharon K. Long, Lisa Dubay, Stacey
McMorrow, Lisa Clemans-Cope, Michael Karpman, Douglas A. Wissoker.
“Taking Stock: Health Insurance Coverage for Parents under the ACA in 2014.”
Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, September 2014.

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Mallik-Kane, Kamila, Akiva Lieberman, Lisa Dubay, Jesse Janetta. “Prison Inmates
Prerelease Application for Medicaid: Take-up Rates in Oregon.” Washington, DC: The
Urban Institute, July 2014.
Adams, Gina and Lisa Dubay. “Exploring Instability and Children’s Well Being: Insights from a Dialogue among Practitioners, Policymakers and Researchers.” Washington, DC:
The Urban Institute, July 2014.
Dubay, Lisa, Genevieve Kenney, Matthew Buettgens, Jay Dev, and Erik Wengle.
“Measuring Medicaid and CHIP Enrollment Progress Under the Affordable Care Act: An
Update.” Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, July 2014.
Dubay, Lisa, Genevieve Kenney, Matthew Buettgens, Jay Dev, Erik Wengle, Nathaniel
Anderson. “Measuring Medicaid/CHIP Enrollment Progress under the Affordable Care
Act.” Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, June 2014.
Astone, Nan, Susan Popkin, Heather Sandstrom, and Lisa Dubay. “Targeted Policies,
Strategies, and Interventions for Improving Life Outcomes for Boys and Young Men of
Color: Promoting Healthy Families and Communities.” Washington, DC: The Urban
Institute, May 2014.
Dubay, Lisa and Genevieve Kenney. “Medicaid and the Young Invincibles: Who Knew?”
Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, November 2013.
Dubay, Lisa, Elena Zarabozo. “How Economic Insecurity in Children Changed Over the
Course of the Great Recession: Fact Sheet. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute,
September 2013.
Dubay, Lisa, Elena Zarabozo. “Economic Security in Children’s Lives: Changes over the
Course of the Great Recession.” Low Income Working Families, Discussion Paper 4.
Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, September 2013.
Dubay, Lisa, Elena Zarabozo, Heather Sandstrom, and Gina Adams. “Absenteeism in
DC Public School Head Start Programs.” Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, July
2013.
Dubay, Lisa, Laura Wheaton, and Sheila Zedlewski. “Using Geographic Variation in the
Cost of Living: Implications for the Poverty Guidelines and Program Eligibility.”
Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, May 2013.
Dorn, Stan, Laura Wheaton, Paul Johnson, and Lisa Dubay. “Using SNAP Receipt to
Establish, Verify, and Renew Medicaid.” Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, May 2013.

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Dubay , Lisa, John Holahan, Sharon K. Long, and Emily Lawton. “ Will the Affordable
Care Act Be a Job Killer?” Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, October 2012.
Kenney, Genevieve, Stephen Zuckerman, Lisa Dubay, Michael Huntress, Victoria Lynch,
Jennifer M. Haley, and Nathaniel Anderson. “Opting in to the Medicaid Expansion under the ACA: Who are the Uninsured Adults Who Could Gain Health Insurance Coverage.”
Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, August 2012
Kenney, Genevieve, Lisa Dubay, Stephen Zuckerman, and Michael Huntress . “Opting
Out of the Medicaid Expansion under the ACA: How Many Uninsured Adults Would not
Be Eligible for Medicaid? “ Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, July 2012
Kenney, Genevieve, Lisa Dubay, Stephen Zuckerman, and Michael Huntress . “Making the Medicaid Expansion an ACA Option: How Many Low-Income Americans Could
Remain Uninsured?” Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, June 2012.
Dubay, Lisa, Sharon Long, and Emily Lawton. “Will Health Reform Lead to Job Loss?
Evidence from Massachusetts Says No. “ Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, June
2012.
Steuerle, Eugene C., Robert D. Reischauer, Margaret Simms, Olivia Golden, Kim
Rueben, and Lisa Dubay. “Today's Children, Tomorrow's America: Six Experts Face the
Facts.” Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, October 2011
Kenney, Genevieve, Allison Cook, and Lisa Dubay. “Progress Enrolling Children in
Medicaid and CHIP: Who is Left and What is the Prospect for Covering More Children?”
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Quick Strike Series, December 2009.
Cook, Allison, Lisa Dubay, and Bowen Garrett. “How Will the Uninsured be Affected by
Health Reform: Childless Adults.” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Quick Strike
Series, August 2009.
Dubay, Lisa, Allison Cook, and Bowen Garrett. “How Will the Uninsured be Affected by
Health Reform: Childless Adults.” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Quick Strike
Series, August 2009.
Dubay, Lisa, Allison Cook, and Bowen Garrett. “How Will the Uninsured be Affected by
Health Reform: Children.” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Quick Strike Series,
August 2009.
Dubay, Lisa and Allison Cook. “How Will the Uninsured be Affected by Health Reform:
Non-Elderly Uninsured.” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Quick Strike Series, August
2009.
Maryland Citizen’s Health Initiative Technical Advisory Group. Maryland Citizen’s Health

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Initiative: “Health Care for All!” Plan Proposal. Released November 12 2008, updated
January 21, 2009.
Lisa Dubay. Making Sense of Recent Estimates of Eligible but Uninsured Children.
Washington, DC: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, August 2007.
John Holahan, Allison Cook, and Lisa Dubay. Characteristics of the Uninsured: Who Is
Eligible for Public Coverage and Who Needs Help Affording Coverage? Washington, DC:
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, February, 2007.
Howell, Embry, Lisa Dubay and Louise Palmer. The Impact of the Los Angeles Healthy
Kids Program on Access to Care, Use of Services, and Health Status. Report prepared for
First 5 LA, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, July 2007.
Howell, Embry, Lisa Dubay, Genevieve Kenney, Louise Palmer, Ian Hill, Moira Inkelas,
Martha Kovac. A Profile of Young Children in the Los Angeles Healthy Kids Program:
Who Are They and What are Their Experiences on the Program? Report prepared for
First 5 LA, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, October, 2006
Dubay, Lisa and Embry Howell. Los Angeles Health Kids Improves Access to Care for
Young Children: Early Results from the Los Angeles Healthy Kids Program. Health
Policy Brief No. 18. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute July 2006.
Wooldridge, Judith, Genevieve Kenney, Chris Trenholm, Lisa Dubay, Ian Hill, Myoung
Kim, Lorenzo Moreno, Anna Sommers, and Steve Zuckerman. Congressionally Mandated
Evaluation of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program: Final Report to Congress.
Report prepared for the Assistant Secretary of Planning and Evaluation, U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, Princeton, New Jersey: Mathematica Policy
Research, October 2005.
Zedlewski S, Gina Adams, Lisa Dubay, and Genevieve Kenney. “Is There a System
Supporting Low-Income Working Families?” Assessing the New Federalism: Working
Families Roundtable Series, June 2005.
Dubay, Lisa, Ian Hill, and Genevieve Kenney. “Five Things Everyone Should Know
About SCHIP.” Assessing the New Federalism: Issues and Options for States, Series A,
No. A-55, October 2002.
Howell, Embry, Ruth Almeida, Lisa Dubay and Genevieve Kenney. “Early Experience with Covering Uninsured Parents Under SCHIP”, Assessing the New Federalism: Issues and Options for States, Series A, No. A-51, May 2002.
Dubay, Lisa, Jennifer Haley, and Genevieve Kenney. “Children’s Eligibility for Medicaid

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and SCHIP: National and State Estimates, 2000.” Assessing the New Federalism, Series B.
Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, March 2002.
Dubay, Lisa, Genevieve Kenney, and Jennifer Haley. “What Do We Know About
Children’s Participation in Medicaid and SCHIP?” Assessing the New Federalism, Series
B. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, March 2002.
Davidoff, Amy, Genevieve Kenney, Lisa Dubay, and Alshadye Yemane. “Patterns of
Child-Parent Insurance Coverage: Implications for Coverage Expansions” Assessing the
New Federalism, Series B. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, October 2001.
Kenney, Genevieve, Jennifer Haley, and Lisa Dubay. “How Familiar Are Low-Income
Parents With Medicaid and SCHIP?” Assessing the New Federalism, Series B, No. B-34.
Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, May 2001.
Kenney Genevieve, Lisa Dubay, Jennifer Haley. “Health Insurance, Access, and Health
Status of Children: Findings from the National Survey of America’s Families.” Assessing the New Federalism, Snapshots II. Washington DC: The Urban Institute, October 2000.
Dubay, Lisa, Genevieve Kenney, Stephen Zuckerman. "Extending Medicaid to Parents:
An Incremental Strategy for Reducing the Number of Uninsured." Assessing the New
Federalism, Series B, No. B-20. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, June 2000.
Lipson, Deborah, Norton, Stephen, Dubay, Lisa, and Holahan John. “Health Policy for
Low Income People in Florida.” Assessing the New Federalism State Report, July 1998.
Testimony
Dubay, Lisa, “The Nexus of Child Development, Health Insurance, and Health Care.”
National Summit on America’s Children US House of Representatives pre-meeting Panel of Physical and Mental Health. May 9, 2007.
Dubay, Lisa, “Issues to Consider Under SCHIP Reauthorization” Statement for United
States Senate Finance Committee, Subcommittee on Health. Hearing on the SCHIP
Program from a States Perspective, November 16, 2006.
Dubay, Lisa, and Genevieve Kenney, “Lessons from the Medicaid Expansions for
Children and Pregnant Women: Implications for Current Policy.” Statement for United
States House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Health, Hearing on
Children’s Access to Health Coverage. Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health of the
Committee on Ways and Means, US House of Representatives, Congressional Record,
April 8, 1997.

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RESEARCH GRANT AND CONTRACT PARTICIPATION
Evaluating Medicaid Access for Halfway House Residents: A Research Partnership with the Connecticut Department of Correction. Awarded 2014. National Institute for Justice.
Role: Project Mentor. Total award amount of $499.000.
How the Affordability Test for MarketPlace Subsidies May Limit Coverage and Increase
Financial Burdens for Families. Awarded 2014. National Institute for Health Care
Reform. Role: Principal Investigator. Total award amount of $150,000.
Affordability Test and CHIP Reauthorization. Awarded 2014. Medicaid and CHIP
Payment and Access Commission. Role: Principal Investigator. Total Award $298,000.
CMS Office of Minority Health Analytic Support Contract. Awarded 2014. Center for
Medicaid and Medicaid Services subcontract from L and M Policy. Role: Subcontract
Director. Total award amount to UI of $927,000.
Health of the States. Awarded 2014. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation subcontract from
Virginia Commonwealth University. Role: Investigator. Total Award to UI $212,000.
Early Childhood Absenteeism Study Phase 3. Awarded 2014. DC Public Schools. Role:
Co-Principal Investigator. Total Award amount of $250,000.
Early Childhood Absenteeism Study Phase 2. Awarded 2013. DC Public Schools. Role:
Co-Principal Investigator. Total award amount of $198,946.
Monitoring and Evaluating Strong Start 2. Awarded 2013. Center for Medicaid and
Medicaid Services. Role: Investigator. Total award amount of $16.0 million.
Instability in Children’s Lives: Implications for Research, Policy and Practice.
Foundation for Child Development. Role: Investigator: Total award in the amount of
$125,000.
Early Childhood Absenteeism Study. Awarded 2013. DC Public Schools. Role:
Investigator. Total award in the amount of $90,859.
Documenting the Extent of Family Stress and Instability in Children’s Lives Since the
Great Recession. Awarded 2012. Low-Income Working Families Project. Role Principal
Investigator. Total award in the amount of $76,585.
Early Childhood Absenteeism Study. Awarded 2012. DC Public Schools. Role:
Investigator. Total award in the amount of $99,804.

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Measurement, Monitoring, and Evaluation of State Demonstrations to Integrate Care for
Dual Eligible Individuals. Awared 2012. Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services subcontract from Research Triangle Institute. Role: Investigator. Total award to UI in the amount of $4.3 million.
Geographic Variation in the Cost of Living and its Implications for the Poverty Guidelines and Program Eligibility. – Awarded 2011. Assistant Secretary for Planning and
Evaluation. Role: Co-Principal Investigator. Total award in the amount of $374,000.
Disparities in CVD Risk: Neighborhood Segregation and Concentrated Poverty –Awarded
2009. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Role: Principal Investigator. Total award in the amount of $656,00.
Incremental Strategies to Cover Low-Income Uninsured Adults – Awarded 2007. Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation. Role: Investigator. Total award in the amount of $326,539.
Healthy Kids Initiative Evaluation – Awarded 2004. First Five Los Angeles. Role:
Investigator. Total award in the amount of $2.4 million.
Integrating Child Health Into Child Development – Awarded 2008. Harvard University
Center for the Developing Child. Role: Investigator. Total award in the amount of
$69,000.
Analytic Support for the Center for Children and Families – Awarded 2008. Role:
Principal Investigator. Total award in the amount of $60,000.
Maryland Citizens’ Health Initiative Technical Advisory Group – Awarded 2007. Role:
Principal Investigator. Total award in the amount of $85,000.
Analytic Support for the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University –
Awarded 2006. Role: Principal Investigator. Total award in the amount of $85,000.
Evaluation of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (Phase 1&2) – Awarded
1998. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Role: Co-Principal Investigator. Total award in the amount of $2.6 million.
Analytic Support for Cover the Uninsured Week -- Awarded 2006. Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation. Role: Investigator. Total award in the amount of $150,000.
The Dynamics of Insurance Coverage 1996 to 2000 – Awarded 2003. Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation, Health Care Financing and Organization. Role: Co-Principal
Investigator. Total award in the amount of $657,000.

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Congressionally Mandated SCHIP Evaluation – Awarded 2000. Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services. Role:
Co-Principal Investigator for Urban Institute Sub-Contract and Task Leader until 01/03.
Total award in the amount of $8.0 million, Urban Institute sub-contract $1.9 million.
The Impact of Family Coverage Expansions on Children’s Participation in Medicaid –
Awarded 2001. Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. Role: Co-Principal
Investigator. Total award in the amount of $60,000.
Health Status and Insurance Coverage of Low Income Women – Awarded 1999. Kaiser
Family Foundation. Role: Principal Investigator. Total award in the amount of $95,000.
Contribution to the SCHIP Evaluation – Awarded 1999. Packard Foundation. Role: Co-
Principal Investigator. Total award in the amount of $350,000.
Evaluation of the Impact of Medicaid Managed Care on Birth Outcomes - Awarded 1997.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health Care Financing and Organization Initiative.
Role: Co-Principal Investigator. Total award in the amount of $607,000.
Defensive Medicine in Obstetrics – Awarded in 1995. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Role: Co-Principal Investigator. Total award in the amount $415,000 grant from the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Awarded 1995.
Evaluation of the Medicaid Expansions for Children – Awarded 1994. Health Care
Financing Administration. Role: Co-Principal Investigator. Total award in the amount of
$550,000.
Broadening Access to Prenatal Care Through the Medicaid Expansions for Pregnant
Women – Awarded in 1992. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Role: Co-Principal
Investigator. Total award in the amount of $508,000 grant from Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation.
PRESENTATIONS
Scientific Meetings
Dubay, Lisa. “Economic Security in Children’s Lives: Changes over the Course of the
Great Recession.” To be presented at APPAM, November 2013.
Dubay, Lisa. “Enrolling Children in Medicaid and CHIP: New Empirical Evidence about
What Works.” Presented at Academy Health Meetings, June 2012”

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Dubay, Lisa. “What Does the ACA Mean for Women and their Health.” Presented at
Academy Health Meetings, Gender Interest Group, June 2012.
Dubay, Lisa. “Public Insurance Expansions in US Health Reform.” World Health
Summit, M-8 Symposium: Reforming Health Care: The Basic Ingredients, October
2009.
Dubay, Lisa and Brad Herring. “Developing Health Reform Initiatives in States: Or
‘Being Baucus’ in Maryland.” Presented at Association for Policy Analysis and
Management, October 2009.
Dubay, Lisa and Sonia Ruiz. “Variation in Child Health Status by Insurance Coverage:
New Evidence from the MEPS." Presented at Academy Health Meetings, June 2008.
Dubay, Lisa and Sule Calikoglu. “Stability of Children’s Health Insurance Coverage
Before and After SCHIP: Progress Made but Improvement Still Needed.” Presented at
Academy Health Meetings, June 2008.
Dubay, Lisa and Embry Howell. “The Impact of Los Angeles Healthy Kids on Access to
Care and Use of Services.” Presented at Academy Health Meetings, June 2007.
Dubay, Lisa and Genevieve Kenney. “The Impact of SCHIP on Access to Care and Use of Services.” Presented at Academy Health Meetings, June 2007.
Dubay, Lisa.. “Socio-economic Position, Race, or Socio-economic Position and Race:
An Examination of Child Health and Functioning.” Presented at Academy Health
Meetings, June 2006.
Sommers, Anna, Lisa Dubay, Linda Blumberg, Fredric Blavin and John Czajka.
“Dynamics in Medicaid and SCHIP Eligibility Among Children: 1996-2000.” Presented by A. Sommers at Academy Health Meetings, June 2005.
Dubay, Lisa, and Genevieve Kenney. “Estimating the Impact of SCHIP on Insurance
Coverage and Access to Care.” Presented at the American Public Health Association
Meetings, November 2004.
Dubay, Lisa, Genevieve Kenney and Amy Davidoff. “Estimating the Impact of SCHIP on Access to Care.” Presented at the Association of Applied Policy Analysis and
Management, November 2003.
Davidoff, Amy, Genevieve Kenney, and Lisa Dubay. “Estimating the Impact of SCHIP for Children with Special Health Care Needs.” Presented at the Academy Health Annual

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Research Meetings, November 2003.
Dubay, Lisa and Genevieve Kenney. “Estimating the Impact of SCHIP on Insurance
Coverage.” Presented at the Association of Applied Policy Analysis and Management,
November 2003.
Kaestner, Robert, Lisa Dubay and Genevieve Kenney. “A National Evaluation of the
Impact of Medicaid Managed Care on Birth Outcomes.” Presented by R. Kaestner at
Population Association of America Annual Meetings March 2002.
Dubay, Lisa and Genevieve Kenney. “Estimating Crowd-Out Under SCHIP: Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off.” Presented at the American Economic Association Meetings,
January 2002.
Dubay, Lisa and Genevieve Kenney. “The Effects of Family Coverage on Children’s
Health Insurance Status.” Presented at the Association of Health Services Research
Annual Meetings, June 2001.
Dubay, Lisa, Genevieve Kenney and Jennifer Haley. “What Do We Know About
Eligibility and Participation In Medicaid and SCHIP.” Presented at the Association of
Health Services Research Annual Meetings, June 2001.
Kenney, Genevieve, Jennifer Haley, and Lisa Dubay. “Why Aren’t Uninsured Children
Enrolling in Medicaid and SCHIP.” By Kenney, Haley and Dubay. Presented by G.
Kenney at the Association of Health Services Research Annual Meeting, June 2001.
Dubay, Lisa, Ted Joyce, Robert Kaestner, and Genevieve Kenney. “Changes in Prenatal
Care Timing and Low Birth Weight by Race and Socioeconomic Status: Implications for the Medicaid Expansions for Pregnant Women.” Presented at the American
Economics Association Meetings, January 2001.
Dubay, Lisa and Genevieve Kenney. “Assessing CHIP Impacts Using Household
Surveys: Promises and Pitfalls.” Presented at Association for Health Services Research
Annual Meetings, June 2000.
Dubay, Lisa and Genevieve Kenney. “Children’s Health Insurance Coverage: Recent
Trends and Prospects for Change.” Presented at Association for Health Services
Research Annual Meetings, June 2000.
Dubay, Lisa and Genevieve Kenney. “Health Care Access and Use Among Low Income
Children: Who Fares Best ?” Presented at the National Academy of State Health
Policy’s Annual Meeting, August 1999.

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Dubay, Lisa, Genevieve Kenney, John Holahan, and Niall Brennan “The Potential
Impacts of the CHIP Program on Insurance Coverage, Access and Use.” Presented at the American Public Health Association Meetings in November 1998.
Dubay, Lisa, Robert Kaestner and Timothy Waidmann. “The Impact of Malpractice
Fears on Cesarean Section Rates.” Presented at the Population Association of America
Meetings in March 1998.
Blumberg, Linda, Lisa Dubay, Stephen Norton. “Did the Medicaid Expansions Displace
Private Insurance: An Analysis Using the SIPP.” Association for Health Services
Research Meetings, June 1998.
Blumberg, Linda, Lisa Dubay, Stephen Norton. “Did the Medicaid Expansions Displace
Private Insurance?” Presented at American Economics Association Meetings in January
1998.
Dubay, Lisa and Timothy Waidmann. “The Impact of Malpractice Fears and Public
Policy on Cesarean Section Rates.” Presented at the Association of Public Policy
Analysis and Management meetings in November 1997.
Blumberg, Linda, Lisa Dubay, Stephen Norton. “Did the Medicaid Expansions Displace
Private Insurance?” Presented at Association of Health Services Research Conference
July 1997.
Blumberg, Linda, Lisa Dubay, Stephen Norton. “Did the Medicaid Expansions Displace
Private Insurance.” Presented at the Association of Public Policy Analysis and
Management Conference, October 1996.
Dubay, Lisa and Stephen Norton. “Medicaid Expansions for Pregnant Women and
Infants: Easing Hospital Burdens?” Presented at the Annual Association for Public
Policy Analysis and Management Conference in October 1994.
Dubay, Lisa. “The Impact of Health Care Reform Alternatives on Child Health.”
Presented at the American Public Health Association's Annual Meeting in October
1994.
Dubay, Lisa and Stephen Norton. “Changes in Hospital Uncompensated Care Between
1987 and 1990: General Trends and the Impact of Medicaid Expansions.” Presented at the American Public Health Association's Annual Meeting in October 1993.
Kenney, Genevieve and Lisa Dubay. “Impacts of the Medicaid Expansions for Pregnant
Women.” Presented at the American Public Health Association's Annual Meeting in
October 1993.

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Kenney, Genevieve and Lisa Dubay. “Impacts of the Medicaid Expansions for Pregnant
Women.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management in October 1993.
Dubay, Lisa, Barbara Cohen, Genevieve Kenney and Stephen Norton. “Local Responses to Medicaid Expansions for Pregnant Women.” Presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Association for Health Services Research in June 1993.
Dubay, Lisa, Barbara Cohen, Genevieve Kenney and Stephen Norton. “Improving Birth
Outcomes and Access to Prenatal Care Through Medicaid Expansions: The Experience of Four States.” Presented at the 14th Annual Association for Public Policy Analysis and
Management Conference in October 1992.
Dubay, Lisa, Barbara Cohen, Genevieve Kenney and Stephen Norton. “Improving Birth
Outcomes and Access to Prenatal Care Through Medicaid Expansions: The Experience of Four States.” Presented at the American Public Health Association's annual meetings in November 1992.
Dubay, Lisa and Genevieve Kenney. “Urban-Rural Differences in Medicare Covered
Home Health and Nursing Home Use.” Presented at the American Public Health
Association's annual meeting in October 1990.
Dubay, Lisa and Susan Flanagan. “Development and Implementation of a Prospective
Case-mix Adjusted Rate of Payment for Nursing Costs in Nursing Homes: The
Massachusetts Experiment.” Presented at the American Public Health Association's
Annual Meeting in November 1988.
Kenney, Genevieve and Lisa Dubay. “The Determinants of Market Variation in Home
Health Utilization.” Presented at the Association for Health Services Research Meetings in July 1990.
Cohen, Joel and Lisa Dubay. “The Effect of Cost Containment and Ownership on
Nursing Home Costs, Case-mix and Staffing.” Presented at the Gerontological Society of America's Annual Meeting in November 1988.