Phone:

(317) 278-4640

Email:

vyeager@iu.edu

Departments:

Health Policy and Management

Degrees:

DrPH, Health Care Management and Policy, University of Alabama at Birmingham

MPH, Health Care Management and Policy, University of Alabama at Birmingham

MPhil, Journalism, University of Stellenbosch

BA, Anthropology, Franklin and Marshall College

Resume/CV

Biography

Dr. Valerie Yeager is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management and is the interim director of the Center for Health Policy. She is also a principal investigator in the Consortium for Workforce Research in Public Health (CWORPH), a collaboration of universities and public health organizations conducting practice-oriented research and analysis on public health finance, workforce, and infrastructure. She has a DrPH and MPH from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a Master's in Philosophy (MPhil) from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. Dr. Yeager previously served as a Lister Hill Policy Fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine.

Research Interests

Dr. Yeager’s research broadly focuses on the intersection of healthcare and public health systems including studies of nonprofit hospital community benefits, Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs), wrap-around service provision, and care coordination. In the field of Public Health Services and Systems Research, Dr. Yeager studies voluntary national accreditation of public health departments and workforce topics such as recruitment, retention, and training needs.

Courses Taught

• Doctoral Seminar in Public Health Systems and Services Research
• Doctoral Seminar in Qualitative Research Methods
• H101 Influencing the Public's Health: The Role of Health Policy
• H501 Introduction to the US Health System and Policy