Professor
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Department of Public Health Sciences (SMD)
Dean's Professorship
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Department of Public Health Sciences (SMD)
Professor
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Department of Economics RC (RC) - Joint
Professor
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (SMD) - Joint
Credentials
Education
PhD | Cornell University.Applied Economics and Management.2014
B.A. | Oberlin College.Economics and Mathematics, Economics Departmental Honors.2005
Awards
Raymond Vernon Memorial Award (Best JPAM Paper).2024
NIH Loan Repayment Program Renewal Award.2020
NIH Loan Repayment Program Renewal Award.2019
Faculty Mentorship Award from UPSTAT Conference.2018
NIH Loan Repayment Program.2016 - 2018
NIH Director's Early Independence Award.2015
Cornell Population Center Rapid Response Grant ($2,000).2013
Cornell Population Center Conference Travel Grant to PAA Meetings ($400).2013
Population Association of America Poster Award.2013
Cornell Population Center Conference Travel Grant to PAA Meetings ($400).2012
Cornell Population Center Seed Grant with David Sahn ($9,950).2011
Economics Departmental Honors.2005
Comfort Starr Prize in Economics.2005
National Academic Squad by National Field Hockey Coaches Association.2004
Jesse Phillips Prize for most outstanding junior economics major.2004
Albert Rees Assistantship to the President's Council of Economic Advisors.2003
Research
As an applied microeconomist, Dr. Hill's primary research interests are in health economics and environmental economics. In particular, her research focuses on the intersection between health, health policy, the environment and human capital formation. The unifying theme within these broad areas is ...
As an applied microeconomist, Dr. Hill's primary research interests are in health economics and environmental economics. In particular, her research focuses on the intersection between health, health policy, the environment and human capital formation. The unifying theme within these broad areas is the use of quasi-experimental designs to identify modifiable factors that are clinically- and policy- relevant. Her research also primarily studies vulnerable populations (e.g., pregnant women, children, rural populations, and older adults).
Dr. Hill is currently actively pursuing multiple NIH-funded research directions. First, her NIH-funded research utilizes quasi-experimental methods to study the impacts of shale gas development on human health in the US. Through support from a DP5 award, Dr. Hill's team has studied the impacts of shale gas development on childhood asthma, drinking water contamination, mortality and environmental justice concerns as well as the economic consequences of this industry via hedonic models. Second, Dr. Hill is PI of an NCI-funded R01 equivalent grant studying drug shortages in oncology care and Co-I with the University of Rochester NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) Research Base which is directed by Drs. Gary Morrow and Karen Mustian. Third, she examines public policies and health system factors that influence the overdose crisis. Within this area, Dr. Hill is studying opioid-related mortality, opioid use during pregnancy, and access to treatment. Her NIDA U01 grant (MPI Meredith Adams) provides five years of funding to study how the COVID-19 Pandemic exacerbated the opioid crisis with a particular focus on policies and economic factors. Fourth, Dr. Hill's team is funded as part of the HEAL Initiative (PI Adams) to provide documentation and best practices on the use of Medicaid and Medicare claims for use in OUD and pain research. Fifth, Dr. Hill is co-lead of the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Pregnancy Domain Team, member of the Pain N3C Domain Team, and site-PI/Co-I of the RECOVER project to uncover risk factors for long COVID using N3C data. Finally, Dr. Hill has received a NIA pilot to develop methods for identifying pregnancy in Medicaid claims, describe disparities in maternal mortality during the Pandemic, and to understand how continuous coverage in Medicaid may have protected postpartum women from adverse outcomes.
Other research projects include: understanding how hazardous waste clean-ups impact housing valuation and infant health, estimating the causal effect of wildfire smoke exposure on risk of fatal and nonfatal overdoses, and studying the impact of shale gas development exposure during pregnancy on education outcomes. Dr. Hill is also pursuing funding to expand her research into Medicaid payment policies for children, pregnant and postpartum women, people with OUD, people living with disabilities, and low-income childless Americans during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Dr. Hill is a recipient of the NIH Director's Early Independence Award. She is also affiliated with Wilmot Cancer Institute, the Goergen Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, the Environmental Health Sciences Center, the Institute for Human Health and the Environment, the UR Aging Institute, and the Center for Community Health & Prevention, and maintains courtesy faculty positions at external institutions. Dr. Hill received her BA in Economics and Mathematics at Oberlin College in 2005 and her PhD in Applied Economics from Cornell University in 2014.
Bhatia A, Preiss AJ, Xiao X, Brannock MD, Alexander GC, Chew RF, Davis H, Fitzgerald M, Hill E, Kelly EP, Mehta HB, Madlock-Brown C, Wilkins KJ, Chute CG, Haendel M, Moffitt R, Pfaff ER
PLoS medicine.. 2025 January 1722 (1):e1004493. Epub 01/17/2025.
Islam JY, Hurwitz E, Li D, Camacho-Rivera M, Sun J, Safo S, Ross JM, Wilkins K, Hassan S, Hill EL, Nosyk B, Varley C, Fadul N, Madlock-Brown C, Patel RC,
AIDS and behavior.. 2024 October 28 (Suppl 1):136-148. Epub 09/18/2024.
Hadley E, Yoo YJ, Patel S, Zhou A, Laraway B, Wong R, Preiss A, Chew R, Davis H, Brannock MD, Chute CG, Pfaff ER, Loomba J, Haendel M, Hill E, Moffitt R
Communications medicine.. 2024 July 114 (1):129. Epub 07/11/2024.
Journal of policy analysis and management : [the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management].. 2024 43 (2):368-399. Epub 12/14/2023.
Vaidya D, Wilkins KJ, Hurwitz E, Islam JY, Li D, Sun J, Safo SE, Ross JM, Hassan S, Hill E, Nosyk B, Varley CD, Fadul N, Camacho-Rivera M, Madlock-Brown C, Patel RC
Journal of clinical and translational science.. 2024 8 (1):e107. Epub 05/21/2024.
Jones SE, Bradwell KR, Chan LE, McMurry JA, Olson-Chen C, Tarleton J, Wilkins KJ, Ly V, Ljazouli S, Qin Q, Faherty EG, Lau YK, Xie C, Kao YH, Liebman MN, Mariona F, Challa AP, Li L, Ratcliffe SJ, Haendel MA, Patel RC, Hill EL,
JAMIA open.. 2023 October 6 (3):ooad067. Epub 08/16/2023.
Pfaff ER, Madlock-Brown C, Baratta JM, Bhatia A, Davis H, Girvin A, Hill E, Kelly L, Kostka K, Loomba J, McMurry JA, Wong R, Bennett TD, Moffitt R, Chute CG, Haendel M, ,
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences.. 2022 September 2 Epub 09/02/2022.
Hill E, Mehta H, Sharma S, Mane K, Xie C, Cathey E, Loomba J, Russell S, Spratt H, DeWitt PE, Ammar N, Madlock-Brown C, Brown D, McMurry JA, Chute CG, Haendel MA, Moffitt R, Pfaff ER, Bennett TD,
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences.. 2022 August 17 Epub 08/17/2022.
Arastu A, Patel A, Mohile SG, Ciminelli J, Kaushik R, Wells M, Culakova E, Lei L, Xu H, Dougherty DW, Mohamed MR, Hill E, Duberstein P, Flannery MA, Kamen CS, Pandya C, Berenberg JL, Aarne Grossman VG, Liu Y, Loh KP
JAMA network open.. 2020 December 13 (12):e2025810. Epub 12/01/2020.
