Yasin Civelek, Ph.D.
Research Associate,  Division of Health Policy and Economics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Core Faculty Fellow, Cornell Health Policy Center. 

I am a health economist whose research examines how health systems and public insurance shape healthcare utilization, spending, and equity, particularly for underserved populations. My work is organized around two interrelated areas:

1. Health system performance: how provider incentives, payment models, and market structure shape spending, quality, and access, and how delivery systems remain resilient to external shocks such as climate change and natural disasters.

2. Insurance design and healthcare spending: which features of insurance design produce better health and fiscal outcomes over the long run. I currently focus on public insurance programs, particularly Medicaid and Medicare.

I use large administrative claims datasets (Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial) and quasi-experimental and experimental methods to generate causal, policy-relevant evidence. 

Previously, I worked as a Senior Researcher on the Health Economics Research Team at Elevance Health / Anthem (2020–2023) and as a consultant designing field experiments on healthcare delivery for the United Nations Development Programme (2023–2025). 

I hold a Ph.D. in Economics and an M.Sc. in Mathematics & Statistics from Georgia State University.