Yusuke Tsugawa, MD, PhD, MPH, is a faculty associate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and an assistant professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research. His research interests include understanding the variation in the quality and costs of health care across individual physicians and its determinants. His work focuses on using large databases and quasi-experimental approaches. Tsugawa's research has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and National Public Radio.
Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA, Tsugawa was a health specialist at the World Bank Group and a research associate in the Department of Health Policy and Management of Harvard School of Public Health.
Tsugawa earned his medical degree from Tohoku University School of Medicine in Japan, a doctoral degree in health policy from Harvard University with a concentration in statistics, and a master's degree in public health from Harvard School of Public Health.
"These findings are important because the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment is one of the few randomized controlled trials that enables us to assess the causal impact of health insurance coverage," co-author Yusuke Tsugawa, MD, MPH, PhD, of the University of California Los Angeles, said in a statement. "Our results should be informative to policymakers and health policy researchers, as they provide robust evidence that health insurance not only improves mental health, as the original study has found, but also improves physical health, such as lowering blood pressure."