Research

PUBLISHED PAPERS

• Targeting intervention strategies aimed at reducing hypertension with low-income, food-insecure adults: Identifying facilitators and barriers to implementation (Devyn Mullis et al.), forthcoming at Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (2025)

• A point-of-care pilot randomized intervention to connect patients with cancer-induced financial toxicity to telehealth financial counseling (C. Alacevich, A.M. Abi Nehme, ... , R. Salloum) - Cancer Causes and Control (2024)

Media coverage: UF Health COM - News

• The association between COVID-19 status and economic costs in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a UK symptom surveillance digital survey (S. Kim, C. Alacevich, C. Nicodemo, R. Wittenberg, S. de Lusignan, S. Petrou), PharmacoEconomics-open (2024)

• The effect of immigration on occupational injuries: evidence from administrative data (C. Alacevich and C. Nicodemo), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (2023)

Media Coverage: La Repubblica (Boeri, T & Perotti, R., "Investire sulla Sicurezza")

• Depression and anxiety during and after episodes of COVID-19 in the community (C. Alacevich, I. Thalmann, C. Nicodemo, S. de Lusignan, S. Petrou), Scientific Reports (2023)

• Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 episodes and Health-Related Quality of Life (C. Alacevich, I. Thalmann, C. Nicodemo, S. de Lusignan, S. Petrou), Applied Health Economics and Health Policy (2023)

• Pro-environmental interventions and behavioral spillovers: evidence from organic waste sorting in Sweden (C. Alacevich,  P. Bonev, and M. Söderberg), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2021)

• Response strategies for promoting gender equality in natural disasters and public health emergencies: a rapid scoping review (J. Steinert, C. Alacevich, B. Steele, J. Hennegan, A. Yakubovich), BMJ Open (2021) 

• The presence of care homes and excess deaths in the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Italy (C. Alacevich, N. Cavalli, O. Giuntella, R. Lagravinese, F. Moscone, and C. Nicodemo), Health Economics (2021)

• Does violence against civilians depress voter turnout? Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina (C. Alacevich and D. Zejcirovic), Journal of Comparative Economics (2020) 

• Child Height and Intergenerational Transmission of Health: Evidence from Ethnic Indians in England (C. Alacevich and A. Tarozzi), Economics and Human Biology (2017)

Media Coverage: VoxEU, The International Growth Center, and Ideas for India

WORKING PAPERS & WORK IN PROGRESS

• Aligning incentives: performance-based payment and quality of care in nursing homes

• Association of neighborhood-level residential segregation and birth outcomes in Florida: a moving-window analysis (J. Hall & al.)

• Evaluation of an Emergency Department-based over-the-counter analgesic medication starter pack initiative and subsequent 30-day revisits (S. Sheikh et al), Supplement to Annals of Emergency Medicine 2023;82(4S): S120 

• Implementation of an Opioid Prescribing Decision Aid in the Emergency Department (S. Sheikh et al)

• Text-messaging nudges to improve adherence to child nutritional interventions (with O. Shoemaker, J.  Ostrowski, J. Gars)

GRANTS AND EXTRAMURAL FUNDING

• HHSC Texas Medicaid External Quality Review Organization (2025 - 2029). Role: Key Personnel (Director, Quantitative Research and Evaluation)

• NIH-NHGRI R01: Clinical Expansion of Precision Medicine in the Emergency Department (MPIs: J. Duarte; S. Sheikh) (2024 - 2029). Role: co-investigator

• Bringing Precision Medicine to the Emergency Department: Implementation of an Enhanced CYP2D6-guided Opioid Prescribing Decision Aid (PI: S. Sheikh) (2023). Role: co-investigator ($50,000) - UF CTSI Precision Public Health pilot grant 

• Leveraging community healthcare workers to improve blood pressure control among food insecure hypertensive adults (PIs: S. Staras and C. Fisher) (2023). Role: co-investigator ($50,000) - UF CTSI Precision Public Health pilot grant 

• Evaluation of a Quality Improvement Performance Payment program for nursing facilities in Medicaid (2022-2025) Role: Lead Researcher, Principal Investigator - Medicaid External Quality Review Organization

•  Immigration and work-related injuries - Employer-employee social security data access grant (with C. Nicodemo, C. Pavese, and G. Peri) (2019) - VisitINPS 

• Policy Design and Evaluation Research in Developing Countries PODER, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Economics (2014 - 2015) - Marie Curie Initial Training Network - Early Career Fellowship

POLICY REPORTS

• Medicaid Provider Directories - Data Quality and Content (with M. Patel), 2025

• Focus Study: Telehealth and Telemedicine Behavioral Health Services in Medicaid - Policy Report (C. Alacevich, M. Al-Rahamneh, and H.H. Xu), 2024

• Migrant workers, labor market adjustments, and occupational injuries (VisitINPS project), "Dinamiche Migratorie, Adesione di Romania e Bulgaria all’Unione Europea e Infortuni sul Lavoro" (C. Alacevich,  C. Nicodemo, C. Pavese, and G. Peri), XXII Rapporto Annuale – Allegato, Valutare con i dati amministrativi: progetti Visitinps Scholar, 2023

• Quarterly Topic Report: Physical and mental health multi-morbidity, mental health screening, and healthcare utilization: evidence from Medicaid claims data, 2023

• Evaluation of a state directed Medicaid performance-based quality incentive payment program for nursing facilities

  • • Interim Evaluation Report, Year 5 (2023)

    • Final Evaluation Report, Year 5 (2024)

    • Interim Evaluation Report, Year 6 (2024)

• Quarterly Topic Report: Non-Medical Drivers of Health and Quality of Care in Medicaid, 2022

POLICY REPORTS - IN PROGRESS

• Quarterly Topic Report: ADHD Initiation Follow-Up in Medicaid

• Focus Study: Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement - Reporting and Evaluation (with V. James and G.T. Eubanks)

• Quality Improvement Costs Reporting in Medicaid