Eric Slade

PhD, MS, BA

Eric Slade is a health economist with expertise in public insurance programs, serious mental illness, preventive interventions, and advanced econometric methods for causal inference. His research uses surveys and large administrative datasets to assess how health care financing systems and policies influence service use, costs, and health outcomes. Dr. Slade has received research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the U.S. Department of Education, the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, and other federal agencies and foundations. He formerly served as a member of the NIH Mental Health Services in Non-Specialty Settings internal review group and the VA Healthcare Organization and Delivery review panel. He currently directs the Nursing Workforce Group, which is conducting a series of studies on workforce outcomes among advanced practice nurse providers and on how they influence health care cost, access, and quality. Dr. Slade also serves as a lead economist on clinical trials and demonstration projects assessing the economic value of novel interventions and programs and is an associate editor of the journal Administration and Policy in Mental Health & Mental Health Services Research.

JHU Center Affiliation:
PROMOTE Center

Full CV

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Specialties and Expertise

Administration/Healthcare Organizational Leadership
Big Data
Business
Care Coordination
Disparities
Economics
Health Behavior
Health Policy
Health Technology
Informatics
Mental Health
Public Health
Qualitative Research
Quantitative Research Methods/Statistics
Research Design
Social Determinants of Health
Workforce Development

Publications

Nothelle S, Slade EP, Zhou J, Magidson P, Chotrani T, Pritchett L, Amjad H, Szanton S, Boyd CM, Woff JL. Emergency Department Length of Stay for Older Adults with Dementia, Annals of Emergency Medicine, In Press, Sept. 2023.

Tracy C, Russell NG, DePriest K, Knestrick J, D’Aoust R, Slade E. The Impact of Full Practice Authority on Nurse Practitioner Compensation, Collaboration, and Billing. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, November 2023; 35(11).

Shepard DS, Slade EP, Nighbor TD, Kurti AN, Heil SH, Solomon LJ, Lynch ME, Johnson HK, Markesich C, Rippberger PL, Skelly JM, DeSarno M, Bunn J, Hammond JB, Roemhildt ML, Williams RK, O’Reilly DM, Bernstein IM, , Higgins ST (2022). Randomized Controlled Trial Examining the Efficacy of Adding Financial Incentives to Best Practices for Smoking Cessation Among Pregnant and Newly Postpartum Women, Preventive Medicine. (In press.)

Higgins ST, Nighbor TD, Kurti AN, Heil SH, Slade EP, Shepard DS, Solomon LJ, Lynch ME, Johnson HK, Markesich C, Rippberger PL, Skelly JM, DeSarno M, Bunn J, Hammond JB, Roemhildt ML, Williams RK, O’Reilly DM, Bernstein IM (2022). Randomized Controlled Trial Examining the Efficacy of Adding Financial Incentives to Best Practices for Smoking Cessation Among Pregnant and Newly Postpartum Women, Preventive Medicine. (In press.)

Slade EP, Ginsburg GS, Riddle M (2021). Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Coping and Promoting Strength Program, Prevention Science.

Samuel LJ, Gaskin DJ, Trujillo AJ, Szanton SL, Samuel A., Slade E (2021). Race, ethnicity, poverty and the social determinants of the coronavirus divide: U.S. county-level disparities and risk factors. BMC Public Health, 21(1), 1-11.

Commodore-Mensah Y, DePriest K, Samuel L, Hanson G, D’Aoust R, Slade EP (2021). Prevalence and Characteristics of Non-US-Born and US-Born Health Care Professionals, 2010-2018. JAMA Network Open. 2021;4(4):e218396. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.8396.

Weiser M, Davis J, Brown CH, Slade EP, Fang LJ, Medoff DR, Buchanan RW, Levi L, Davidson M, Kreyenbuhl J (2021). Differences in Antipsychotic Treatment Discontinuation among Veterans with Schizophrenia in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. American Journal of Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.20111657.

Goodwin M, Fingerhood M, Slade E, Davidson P (2021). Development of an innovative curriculum-to-career transition program for nurse practitioners in primary care. Nursing Outlook. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2020.11.012.

Higgins ST, Slade EP, Shepard DS (2020). Decreasing smoking during pregnancy: Potential economic benefit of reducing sudden unexpected infant death. Preventive Medicine. 2020 Nov 1;140:106238.

DePriest K, D’Aoust R, Samuel L, Commodore-Mensah Y, Hanson G, Slade EP (2020). Nurse practitioners’ workforce outcomes under implementation of full practice authority. Nursing Outlook, 68(4):459-467.

National Institute of Mental Health K01 Research Career Award

2007-2009 Independent Investigator Award, NARSAD Foundation

2003 Adam Smith Award, International Center for Mental Health Policy and Economics, Awarded annually for Best Article in the Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics

2002 Development Award, Johns Hopkins University, Center for Adolescent Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

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