Biography
Megdalynn Fisher is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Policy & Administration at Florida International University. Her research examines the intersection of long-term care policy, public finance, and health economics, with a particular focus on how ownership and management structures, financial incentives, and public reporting shape quality, equity, and outcomes in nursing homes. She employs quasi-experimental methods and large administrative datasets to study the ways federal and state policies influence healthcare delivery and vulnerable populations.
Her current projects investigate the effects of state supplemental payments to local-government owned nursing homes on long-term care markets and resident outcomes, the effects of Medicaid expansion and federal incentive programs on the demographic composition of nursing home residents, and nursing home responses to mandated public reporting of antipsychotic medication use.
Dr. Fisher received her Ph.D. in Public Affairs from Indiana University’s O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, where she was awarded the Irsay Institute Graduate Fellowship and the Roy W. Shin Fellowship. She also holds a Master of Public Administration from Brigham Young University’s Romney Institute of Public Service and Ethics and a B.S. in Economics from Utah Valley University. At FIU, she serves on the Ph.D. Program Committee in the Department of Public Policy & Administration.