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Diana Bowser

Associate Dean for Research and Integrated Science

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Diana Bowser, Sc.D., M.P.H., is the Associate Dean for Research and Integrated Science at the Connell School of Nursing. Dr. Bowser has 20 years of experience in health system analysis related to health economics, health policy, and using econometric methods and costing techniques to evaluate health system changes in Latin America, Africa, and the United States. She is especially interested in health system issues and research related to health financing, cost impacts on efficiency and effectiveness, catastrophic health payments, evaluation, income inequality, quality improvement, workforce, decentralization, and resource allocation in the health sector, and health and economic growth. She has worked at both the global and federal level on several research projects focusing on specific populations such as women and children and migrants and topics related to behavioral health and substance use. She has provided technical assistance and conducted research with grants and funding from USAID, DFID, WHO, the Global Fund, Save the Children, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, IADB and the World Bank. She has worked closely with the following governments on these policy issues: Nigeria, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Ghana, Namibia, Swaziland, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Colombia, Chile, Belize, Saint Lucia, Dominica, Ukraine, Kosovo, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Haiti, Egypt, Oman and Kuwait. Dr. Bowser earned her BA from Harvard College, her MPH from Yale School of Public Health and her Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) in health economics from the Harvard School of Public Health. She is fluent in Spanish and has lived and worked in Latin America.

Selected Publications

  • Julie Mottl-Santiago, Dmitry Dukhovny, Emily Feinberg, Jennifer Moore, Victoria Parker, Howard Cabral,ÌýDiana Bowser, Eugene Declercq. 2024. Return-on-investment analysis of an enhanced community doula program: pre- and post-covid considerations. Birth. 
  • Priya Argawal-Harding, Brielle Ruscitti, Donald Shepard, Arturo Harker-Roa,ÌýDiana M Bowser. 2024. Disparities in health-seeing behaviors and associated costs between Venezuelan migrants and Colombians residing in Colombia. International Journal for Equity and Health: 23(202). 
  • Diana M Bowser, Kathryn McCollister, Yang Yang, Brielle Ruscitti, Grace Berchtold, Erminia Ferdone, Heather Hines, and Danica Knight. 2024. Start-Up and Implementation Costs for the Trust Based Relational Intervention. Journal of Prevention.
  • Diana M Bowser, Robert Bohler, Margot Trotter Davis, Dominic Hodgkin, and Constance M. Horgan. 2024. Payment Related Barriers to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder: A Critical Review of the Literature and Real-World Application. Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment.
  • Diana M Bowser,ÌýKaili Mauricio, Brielle Ruscitti, and William Crown. 2024. American Clusters: Using Machine Learning to Understand Health and Health Care Disparities in the United States. Health Affairs Scholar. 14 February 2024. 
  • Diana M Bowser,ÌýEckhard Kleinau, Grace Berchtold, David Kapaon, and Leulsegged Kasa. Return on investments in the Health Extension Worker Program in Ethiopia. 2023. PloS ONE 18(11): e0291958.
  • Diana M Bowser, Robert Bohler, Margot Trotter Davis, Dominic Hodgkin, Richard G. Frank, and Constance M. Horgan. 2023. New Methadone Treatment Regulations should be Complemented by Payment and Financing Reform. Health Affairs Forefront.  
  • Donald S Shepard, Adelaida Boada, Anna Sombrio, Priya Argawal-Harding, Arturo Harker Roa,ÌýDiana M Bowser. 2023. Impact of COVID-19 on healthcare utilization, cases, and deaths of citizens and displaced Venezuelans in Colombia: complementary comprehensive and safety-net systems under Colombia's constitutional commitment. PloS ONE. Mar 28;18(3):e0282786. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0282786.
  • Laura J. Dunlap, Margaret R. Kuklinski, Alexander Cowell, Kathryn E. McCollister,Ìý¶Ù¾±²¹²Ô²¹Ìý²Ñ.Ìýµþ´Ç·É²õ±ð°ù, Mark Campbell, Claudia‑Santi F. Fernandes, Pranav Kemburu, Bethany J. Livingston, Lisa A. Prosser, Vinod Rao, Rosanna Smart, Tansel Yilmazer. 2023. Economic Evaluation Design within the HEAL Prevention Cooperative. Prevention Science. 
  • Bowser, D. M., Agarwal-Harding, P., Sombrio, A. G., Shepard, D. S., & Harker Roa, A. (2022). Integrating Venezuelan Migrants into the Colombian Health System during COVID-19. Health Systems and Reform,Ìý8(1), 2079448. 
  • Bowser, D., Bohler, R., Trotter Davis, M., Hodgkin, D., Frank, R. G., & Horgan, C. M. (2023). New Methadone Treatment Regulations Should Be Complemented by Payment and Financing Reform. Health Affairs Forefront, 2023, June 1,Ìý
  • Bowser, D. M., Rowlands, K. R., Hariharan, D., Gervasio, R. M., Buckley, L., Halasa-Rappel, Y., Glaser, E. L., Nelson, C. B., & Shepard, D. S. (2022). Cost of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections in US Infants: Systematic Literature Review and Analysis. The Journal of Infectious Diseases,Ìý226(Suppl 2), S225–S235. 
  • Dunlap, L. J., Kuklinski, M. R., Cowell, A., McCollister, K. E.,ÌýBowser, D. M., Campbell, M., Fernandes, C. F., Kemburu, P., Livingston, B. J., Prosser, L. A., Rao, V., Smart, R., & Yilmazer, T. (2022). Economic Evaluation Design within the HEAL Prevention Cooperative. Prevention Science: The Official Journal of the Society for Prevention Research, 1–11. 
  • Glaser, E. L., Hariharan, D.,ÌýBowser, D. M., Gervasio, R. M., Rowlands, K. R., Buckley, L., Nelson, B. B., & Shepard, D. S. (2022). Impact of Respiratory Syncytial Virus on Child, Caregiver, and Family Quality of Life in the United States: Systematic Literature Review and Analysis. The Journal of Infectious Diseases,Ìý226(Suppl 2), S236–S245. 
  • Jason, J. S.,ÌýBowser, D. M., Harker Roa, A., Contreras Ceballos, D. C., Muñoz, S., Sombrio, A. G., & Shepard, D. S. (2022). Impact of Weekday and Weekend Mobility and Public Policies on COVID-19 Incidence and Deaths across 76 Large Municipalities in Colombia: Statistical Analysis and Simulation. BMC Public Health,Ìý22(1), 2460. 
  • Shepard, D. S., Boada, A., Newball-Ramirez, D., Sombrio, A. G., Rincon Perez, C. W., Agarwal-Harding, P., Jason, J. S., Harker Roa, A., & Bowser, D. M. (2023). Impact of COVID-19 on Healthcare Utilization, Cases, and Deaths of Citizens and Displaced Venezuelans in Colombia: Complementary Comprehensive and Safety-Net Systems under Colombia’s Constitutional Commitment. PloS One,Ìý18(3), e0282786.Â