Deborah Mack, PhD, MPH

Deb Mack is currently a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences at the UMass Chan Medical School. She received her Masters of Public Health in the Health Services Research track from Brown University’s School of Public Health with a focus in gerontology. After graduation, she worked at the Institute for Aging Research in Boston, MA. She then completed her PhD in pharmacoepidemiology in the Clinical and Population Health Research Program at the UMass Chan Medical School, Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Her research interests include using causal inference and advanced statistical modeling techniques to address concerns related to health services and pharmacoepidemiology among geriatric and nursing home populations. She hopes to use research to inform and guide policy decisions that lead to more cost-effective and better quality care for elderly populations. She has been funded by the UMass Chan CCTS TL1 Pre Doctoral Fellowship Training grant, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) R36 Health Services Research Dissertation Grant Award, and is currently funded by the TL1 Post Doctoral Fellowship Training Grant.