Ailish Burns
Brown University
Ailish Burns
I am a PhD Candidate in Sociology at Brown University. Broadly, I research how policies and organizational practices produce inequality in health and access to healthcare. My mixed-methods dissertation examines how states in the United States use algorithms to determine functional or medical eligibility for Medicaid long-term care. This project analyzes the relationship between different types of algorithmic eligibility processes and inequality in access to long-term care and care outcomes.
Another stream of my research examines predictors of maternal and infant health inequality, also predominately in the United States.
Prior to pursuing my PhD, I worked in child health program evaluation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | United States; |
|---|---|
| Topics | Access to care; Care inequalities; Care outcomes; Eligibility for public LTC; Healthcare access in LTC; Information and data systems in LTC; LTC Policy; Social Insurance; Technology and LTC; |
| Methods | Analysis of administrative data; Case studies; Document analysis; Interviews; Literature reviews and synthesis; Longitudinal data analysis; Mixed methods; Qualitative studies; Quantitative data analysis; |
| Role | Research; |
| Interest Groups | Long-Term Care Policy; policy; Quality improvement in Long-Term Care; Technology and Long-Term Care; Unmet need inequalities and care poverty (UNICAP); |
| Website | https://sociology.brown.edu/people/ailish-burns |
| ORC.ID | 0000-0003-2344-0829 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/ailish-burns-0a076a297/ | |
| Research interests | Medicaid long-term care, health, policy, inequality, science and technology, organizations, maternal health |
| Key publications | Rauscher, Emily and Ailish Burns. 2023. “States Approaches to Simplify Medicaid Eligibility and Implications for Inequality of Infant Health” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 9(4):32-60. doi:10.7758/RSF.2023.9.4.02 Burns, Ailish, Teresa DeAtley, and Susan E. Short. 2023. “The Maternal Health of American Indian and Alaska Native People: A Scoping Review.” Social Science & Medicine 317:115584. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115584. Jackson, Margot, Emily Rauscher, and Ailish Burns. 2022. “Social Spending and Educational Gaps in Infant Health in the United States, 1998–2017.” Demography. 59 (5): 1873–1909. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10230542 Rauscher, Emily and Ailish Burns. 2021. “Unequal Opportunity Spreaders: Higher COVID-19 Deaths with Later School Closure in the United States.” Sociological Perspectives. doi:10.1177/07311214211005486. |