Dr. Matthay is a social epidemiologist and postdoctoral scholar for the Evidence for Action Methods Laboratory of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. Her research focuses on understanding how social and economic programs and policies can be leveraged to improve population health and health inequalities, and on addressing methodological barriers to generating rigorous evidence on this topic. Dr. Matthay received her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley and her Masters of Public Health from the University of Washington while she was a Post-Bachelor Fellow at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Dr. Matthay’s research interests and areas of expertise include causal inference and epidemiologic methods, suicide and self-harm, community and firearm violence, injury epidemiology, psychiatric epidemiology, and global health.
