Puneet Chehal
Asst Professor
Assistant Professor
Faculty, Health Policy and Management
Dr. Chehal's existing and planned future research agenda centers principally on the following two areas: (1) state Medicaid managed care program design and the health needs of vulnerable populations served by these programs, and more recently, (2) longitudinal (or life course) population prevention and management of chronic disease(s). Currently, she mostly focus on diabetes, a chronic disease that imposes substantial burden on Medicaid programs and enrollees. In future work, Dr. Chehal will expand her research to consider cardiometabolic diseases and multimorbidity. Throughout her work in both these areas, Dr. Chehal considers or explicitly study racial/ethnic minority populations who experience accelerated deterioration in health over their lives due to stressors from living in a racialized society.
Areas of Interest
- Cardiometabolic Diseases
- Ecology, Demography and Environmental Sciences
- Health Economics
- Health Policy
- Health Services Research
Education
- BA 2008, University of California, Davis
- MA 2015, Duke University
- PhD 2017, Duke University
Courses Taught
- HPM 525: Health Services Data Analytics
- HPM 586: Quantitative Methods II(Stata)
Affiliations & Activities
Emory Global Diabetes Research Center - Emory University
Maternal and Child Health - Emory University
Publications
- Chehal, P. K., Selvin, E., DeVoe, J. E., Mangione, C. M., & Ali, M. K. , 2022, Diabetes And The Fragmented State Of US Health Care And Policy: Overview examines diabetes and the fragmented state of US health care and policy, Health Affairs, 41, 939-946
- Chehal, P.K., Uppal, T.S., Ng, B.P. et al. , 2022, Trends and Race/Ethnic Disparities in Diabetes-Related Hospital Use in Medicaid Enrollees: Analyses of Serial Cross-sectional State Data, 2008–2017. , J GEN INTERN MED. , ,
- Chehal, PK, Shafer L and Argeseanu, S. , 2021, Examination of Sleep and Obesity in Children and Adolescents in the United States , American Journal of Health Promotion., ,
- Xin Hu*, Chehal PK, Kaplan C, Krukowski RA, Lan RH, Stepanski E, Schwartzberg L, Vidal G, and Graetz I. , 2021, Patient-reported symptoms for women diagnosed with early stage, hormone receptor-positive breast cancer before starting chemotherapy: differences by race, , JAMA Network Open, 4, e2112076-e211207
- D Montoya*, Chehal P and EK Adams , 2020, Medicaid Managed Care's Effects on Spending, Utilization, and Health Outcomes, the Annual Review of Public Health, 41, 537-549