Laura Wherry

Associate Professor of Economics and Public Service, NYU

Laura Wherry's research focuses on the role of public programs and policies on the health and economic well-being of individuals in the US. She has a particular interest in policies that affect access to health care for women and children in lower income families. Recent research examines the longer-term effects of several large expansions in Medicaid targeting low-income pregnant women and children in the 1980s and 1990s.

Prior to joining NYU, Laura was an assistant professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of Chicago's Harris School and her B.A. from the College of William and Mary.