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Laura Wherry is an Associate Professor at NYU Wagner, specializing in Economics and Public Service. She is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, focusing on health policies and their impact on the economic well-being of individuals, with particular emphasis on access to healthcare for women, children, and low-income families. During the 2024-2025 academic year, she served as Senior Economist for health care at the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Before her tenure at NYU, Laura was an Assistant Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at the University of Michigan. She holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of Chicago's Harris School and a B.A. from the College of William and Mary. Laura teaches courses that introduce students to basic statistical methods and their application in management, policy, and financial decision-making. Her work emphasizes applied statistics and data analysis, using the software package Stata, and is tailored to foster critical thinking among students.
Open Program in Biomedical Sciences (Vilcek Institute) covers departments like Biochemistry, Pathology, Neuroscience, Microbiology, etc.