Mailing Address:
Harvard Medical School
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention
133 Brookline Avenue, 6th Floor
Boston, MA 02215

Email: kbackes@fas.harvard.edu

Phone: (617) 509-9202
Fax: (617) 859-8112

Katy Backes Kozhimannil, M.P.A

Katy Backes Kozhimannil is a Pharmaceutical Policy Research Fellow in the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Health Policy at Harvard University. Katy's research interests include program and policy evaluation, longitudinal analysis, and access to medicines and health insurance, particularly in the fields of reproductive and maternal health. She is currently researching the maternal health impacts of the Philippine national health insurance program and is also using data from New Jersey's Medicaid program to examine the impacts of recent statewide interventions on post-partum depression. Katy graduated summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota in 1999 with a B.A. in International Relations and Spanish; she earned an M.P.A. and a certificate in Demography at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University in 2003