Dr. Cameron Kaplan is an Associate Professor of Medicine (with Tenure) at the USC Keck School of Medicine and serves as Director of the Gehr Family Center for Health Systems Science, with research and teaching that address insurance design, Medicare policy, and health policy in California, including Medi-Cal and safety-net systems. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics.
His research program focuses on understanding how health policy and insurance benefit design affect healthcare utilization, health outcomes, and disparities. Dr. Kaplan employs sophisticated econometric methods to analyze large healthcare datasets, evaluating the real-world impacts of policy changes on vulnerable populations.
Dr. Kaplan's current research portfolio includes NIH-funded studies examining COVID-19's impact on disparities in preventive care access, outcomes of alternative payment models (AHRQ-funded), and the health impacts of opioids on hospitalized infants. His work has been published in leading journals including Health Affairs, JAMA Network Open, Health Economics, and Annals of Internal Medicine.
Prior to joining USC in 2018, Dr. Kaplan was on faculty at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. He earned his BA in Economics from Brandeis University (2005), his PhD in Economics from UC Santa Barbara (2011), and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Pittsburgh.
