Lori Ann Post, PhD
Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics, Director
Dr. Post is the Buehler Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Departments of Emergency Medicine and Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. She did her training in Anatomy and Toxicology at the Faculdade de Medicina - Câmpus de Botucatu, Brazi; Forensic Science and Osteology at the University of London and Cambridge University respectively; International Development, African Studies, Demography, and Applied Demography (Sociology) from MSU; and postdoc in a joint program at the Emory Rollins School of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control in Epidemiology.
Dr. Post is a lifelong student completing certificate programs at Carnegie Mellon University in Multiple System Estimation Techniques and Log Linear Modeling, Geographical Information Systems from both Penn State and Harvard University. She recently completed the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine from Drexel University. As a sociologist, Dr. Post studies the roll of Public and Political Will in social change, how to mobilize “will” to create better policy. She was a Rockefeller Fellow and served as a “scholar in residence” at the Bellagio Center in Italy where she worked on a body of science to define public and political will and its application in a variety of public health issues. Her Public and Political Will research has been funded by the USAID, USDA-International, the World Bank and the Department of Defense. Her injury prevention work has been funded by both Medicare and Medicaid, the Centers for Disease Control, Robert Wood Johnson, the Skillman Foundation, Department of Education, AHRQ, National Institute of Justice, and Office for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
Currently, Dr. Post’s injury work on Elder Abuse is funded by the Department of Justice- Office for Victims of Crime, Opioid impact on rural economies is funded by USDA, and her policy work on food security is funded by USAID. Before coming to Northwestern, Post was Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Research Director and Section Chief of Research at the Yale School of Medicine, Faculty affiliate of the Yale Center for Informatics, and a Research Scientist at the Veterans Administration.