Dr. Erin Trish is a postdoctoral fellow at the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California and the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California Los Angeles. She graduated from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public health in 2013 with a doctorate in Health Policy and Economics. She also holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and worked as a research assistant in a stem cell research lab at Harvard University prior to starting graduate school.

Her research focuses on private health insurance markets in the US, including how the Affordable Care Act may affect how these markets function. Her dissertation work focused on the offsetting effects of the level of competition among insurers on health insurance premiums and on how insurance market regulations affect employers’ decisions about the health benefits they offer. Additionally, she has worked on several other research projects related to the ACA including simulations of the population expected to obtain coverage through the exchanges as well as the risk adjustment programs included in the law.