I am an assistant professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of New Mexico (UNM), where I teach in the school's Master of Health Administration program. My research generally focuses on how federal- and state-level policies affect health care access and use in the United States, with a particular interest in maternal and reproductive health care as well as access and use among American Indian and Alaska Native populations. Specifically, I am interested in understanding how policies, like Medicaid expansion and post-Dobbs abortion bans, either improve outcomes or contribute to the persistent health disparities we observe in the U.S. For example, leveraging administrative and publicly available data, my research has explored how hospital ownership type affects access to postpartum contraceptive care, the impact of state-level abortion bans on abortion care access, differences in health care access and use among American Indian and Alaska Native populations, and variation in insurance status during the prenatal period. Before joining UNM, I was a health economist at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2021-2026) and an assistant professor of economics at Sam Houston State University (2018-2021).

Email: jmonnet@unm.edu

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