Mailing Address:
Harvard Medical School
Department of Population Medicine
133 Brookline Avenue, 6th Floor
Boston, MA 02215
Anita_Wagner@hms.harvard.edu
Phone: (617) 509-9956
Fax: (617) 859-9853
Staff Assistant: Joyce Cheatham
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Anita Wagner, PharmD, MPH, DrPH
Dr. Wagner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. She is a member of Population Medicines's Drug Policy Research Group and of the WHO Collaborating Center in Pharmaceutical Policy (WHO CCPP) formed jointly by Population Medicine and the Center for International Health and Development at Boston University. She co-directs the Harvard Medical School Fellowship in Pharmaceutical Policy Research and leads the global Medicines and Insurance Coverage (MedIC) Initiative on behalf of the WHO CCPP.
Dr. Wagner conducts research to inform evidence-based policy decisions that improve access to and use of medicines for vulnerable populations in the United States and particularly in developing countries. Current domestic research includes an analysis funded by The Commonwealth Fund to estimate the affordability of health care and medicines among Americans age 50 to 65 years old. Current international projects include studies to develop an outpatient benefit to cover medicines for members of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation. Her teaching activities focus on building capacity in insurance systems to design, implement, and evaluate medicines benefit policies. Together with Dr. Dennis Ross-Degnan, she developed the curriculum for the first MedIC Course on Medicines Policy Analysis for Health and Insurance Systems, held in Manila in September 2007.
Dr. Wagner received her Master of Public Health degree and a doctorate in epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health. She also holds a doctorate in clinical pharmacy from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences and is licensed to practice pharmacy in Germany and Massachusetts.
Selected Publications:
Zhang F,Wagner AK,Soumerai SB,Ross-Degnan D,.
Methods for estimating confidence intervals in interrupted time series analyses of health interventions
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J Clin Epidemiol. 2009 Feb;2:143-148
Wagner AK,Valera M,Graves AJ,Lavina S,Ross-Degnan D,.
Costs of hospital care for hypertension in an insured population without an outpatient medicines benefit: an observational study in the Philippines
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BMC Health Serv Res. 2008;161-
Vialle-Valentin CE,Ross-Degnan D,Ntaganira J,Wagner AK,.
Medicines coverage and community-based health insurance in low-income countries
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Health Res Policy Syst. 2008;11-
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