Research Interests
Dr. Frank Wharam is a general internist and health policy researcher. He studies the impact of national and state policies on the health outcomes of chronically ill and vulnerable populations. His research often examines effects of health insurance benefit designs such as value-based, consumer-directed, and high-deductible health plans. Dr. Wharam also focuses on interventions that affect people with substance use disorders, diabetes, obesity, mental illness, and respiratory diseases. Other interests include the adverse effects of wasteful health care spending on medical and non-medical outcomes. He has expertise in rigorous quasi-experiment research designs, causal inference in observational data, and large claims data analyses.