Nathaniel Anderson
Nathaniel W. Anderson is a fifth year doctoral student in Health Policy and Management at UCLA. His research interests are in population health, health equity, and child and youth well-being. For his dissertation, he is exploring methodological improvements to indices of child well-being and applying these indices as tools for assessing how public policy impacts population health. He has also worked on several projects aimed at quantifying trends in health equity within the U.S. population.
Previously, he worked for the UCLA Center for Health Advancement’s Win-Win Project since August 2015, building simulation models for how various interventions impact health and other outcomes, including health equity. Prior to that, he was a research associate for the Urban Institute’s Health Policy Center. He completed his B.A. in mathematical economics from Pomona College.