MURIEL BOWSER
MAYOR
The Honorable Phil Mendelson
Chairman
Council of the District of Columbia
John A. Wilson Building
1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 504
Washington, DC 20004 Dear Chairman Mendelson:
In accordance with section 2 of the Confirmation Act of 1978, effective March 3, 1979 (D.C. Law
2-142; D.C. Official Code § 1- 523.01), and pursuant to section 6 of the Health Benefit Exchange
Authority Establishment Act of 2011, effective March 2, 2012 (D.C. Law 19- 94; D.C. Official
Code § 31-3171.05), I am pleased to nominate the following person:
Dr. Leighton Ku
Ingleside Terrace, NW
Washington, DC 20010
(Ward 1)
for reappointment as a voting member of the District of Columbia Health Benefit Exchange
Authority Executive Board, for a term to end July 6, 2025.
Enclosed you will find biographical information detailing the experience of the above-mentioned
nominee, together with a proposed resolution to assist the Council during the confirmation process.
I would appreciate the Council’s earliest consideration of this nomination for confirmation. Please
do not hesitate to contact me, or Steven Walker, Director, Mayor’s Office of Talent and Appointments, should the Council require additional information.
Sincerely,
Muriel Bowser
Mayor
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Chairman Phil Mendelson
at the request
of the Mayor
A PROPOSED RESOLUTION
IN THE COUNCIL
OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
13 To confirm the reappointment of Dr. Leighton Ku to the District of Columbia Health Benefit
14 Exchange Authority Executive Board.
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16 RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, that this
17 resolution may be cited as the "Health Benefit Exchange Authority Executive Board Leighton
18 Ku Confirmation Resolution of 2023".
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20 Sec. 2. The Council of the District of Columbia confirms the reappointment of:
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Dr. Leighton Ku
Ingleside Terrace, NW
Washington, DC 20010
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27 as a voting member of the District of Columbia Health Benefit Exchange Authority Executive
28 Board, pursuant to section 6 of the Health Benefit Exchange Authority Establishment Act of
29 2011, effective March 2, 2012 (D.C. Law 19-94; D.C. Official Code§ 31-3171.05), for a term to
30 end July 6, 2025.
31 Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia shall transmit a copy of this resolution,
32 upon its adoption, to the nominee and to the Office of the Mayor.
33 Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.
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CURRICULUM VITAE
LEIGHTON KU
Professor of Health Policy and Management Telephone:
Director, Center for Health Policy Research Mobile phone:
Department of Health Policy and Management
Milken Institute School of Public Health
Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration
The George Washington University E-mail:
Washington, DC 20052
Summary
Leighton Ku, PhD, MPH, is a professor of health policy and management at the George Washington
University (GW). He is a nationally known health policy and health services scholar with more than 25
years of experience. He has examined topics such as national and state health reforms, access to care for
low-income populations, Medicaid, preventive services, the health care safety net, cost and benefits of
health services, and immigrant health. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed
articles and 200 policy briefs and other translational reports. He directs the Center for Health Policy
Research, a multidisciplinary research center, which includes physicians, attorneys, economists, health
management and policy experts and others, with more than 20 faculty and dozens of staff; it has a
research portfolio in excess of $25 million. He has been principal investigator for a large number of
studies with support from the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Commonwealth Fund and Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, and other sources. In the course of his career at GW, the Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities and the Urban Institute, he has worked with federal and state executive and legislative agencies,
health care organizations, advocates and others in research, technical assistance, strategic advice and
advocacy. As a faculty, he has taught research methods and policy analysis at the graduate level for
more than 25 years and guided numerous students through dissertations and other research. As a member
of his community, he helped establish and guide the District of Columbia’s Health Benefits Exchange
Authority as a founding member of its Executive Board.
Education
1990 Ph.D., Health Policy, Boston University (Pew Health Policy Fellow in a joint program of
Boston University and Brandeis University)
1979 M.P.H., Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
1979 M.S., Nutritional Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
1975 A.B. (honors), Biochemistry, Harvard College
Professional Background
2015 – present Co-Director, PhD Health Policy Program. First at GW Trachtenberg School of
Public Policy and Administration, now at Milken Institute School of Public
Health.
2012 - present Executive Board, District of Columbia Health Benefit Exchange Authority
(voluntary position).
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2008 - present Director, Center for Health Policy Research, The George Washington University
2008 - present Professor of Health Policy and Management (with tenure), Department of Health
Policy and Management, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George
Washington University.
2015- 2016 Interim Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management
2000 - 2008 Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Washington, DC
1992 - present Professor in Public Policy and Public Administration, Trachtenberg School of
Public Policy and Administration, The George Washington University.
Secondary appointment. Began as Associate Professorial Lecturer.
1990 - 2000 Principal Research Associate. The Urban Institute, Washington, DC. Began as
Research Associate I.
1989 - 1990 Research Manager, SysteMetrics/McGraw-Hill, Cambridge, MA.
1987 - 1989 Pew Health Policy Fellow, Health Policy Institute, Boston University and the
Heller School, Brandeis University
1980 - 1987 Program Analyst, Office of Analysis and Evaluation and Supplemental Food
Programs Division, Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture,
Alexandria, VA and Washington, DC.
1975 - 1976 Registered Emergency Medical Technician, Dept. of Health and Hospitals,
Boston, MA
Publications Authored or Co-authored in Peer-Reviewed Journals
[Aggregate measures of scholarly productivity: H-index = 47, I10-index = 125 (according to Google
Scholar as of July 29, 2020]
Ku L. The Association of Social Vulnerabilities and Health Insurance Coverage with COVID-19
Vaccinations and Intentions, May 2021. Submitted for publication.
Ku L. Are Reductions in Immigrants’ Supplemental Security Income Participation Beneficial?
It Is Not Completely Clear (invited editorial). American Journal of Public Health. 111(6): 1003-4, June
2021.
Jewers M, Ku L. Noncitizen Children Face Higher Health Harms Compared With Their Siblings Who
Have US Citizen Status. Health Affairs. Forthcoming, July 2021.
Brantley E, Ku L. Continuous Eligibility for Medicaid Is Associated with Improved Health Access.
Medical Care Research and Review. Forthcoming, 2021.
Han X, Pittman P, Ku L. The Effect of National Health Service Corps Clinician Staffing on Medical and
Mental Health Care Costs in Community Health Centers. Medical Care. Forthcoming, 2021.
Brantley E, Darden M, Ku L. Effects of Expanding Parental Medicaid Eligibility on Parental Health and 3
Family Functioning, submitted for publication
Wang X, Babb S, Xu X, Ku L, Glover-Kudon R, Armour B. Receipt of Cessation Treatments Among
Medicaid Enrollees Trying to Quit Smoking. Nicotine and Tobacco Research. Advance Access.
Research, Feb. 2021, 1–5, doi:10.1093/ntr/ntaa213
Ku L, Han X, Chen C, Vujicic M. Dental Education and Other Factors Associated with Medicaid
Pediatric Dental Participation. Journal of Dental Education. 2020 Sept. doi: 10.1002/jdd.12390
Ku L, Brantley E. Conducting Evaluation Research for Policy and Legal Analysis in a Turbulent Policy
Environment: The Example of Medicaid and SNAP Work Requirements. Sage Research Methods Cases:
Medicine and Health, June 25, 2020. doi.org/10.4135/9781529743746 [username srmc_240620 password
cases2020]
Brantley E, Pillai D, Ku L. Associations of Work Requirements and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program Participation by Race/Ethnicity and Disability Status, 2013-2017. JAMA Network Open, Jun.
26, 2020. 2020; 3(6):e205824. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.5824,
Han X, Ku L. Enhancing Staffing in Rural Community Health Centers Can Improve Behavioral Health
Care. Health Affairs. 2019 Dec.; 38(12): 2061-68.
Ku L, Brantley E, Pillai D. The Effect of Work Requirements on SNAP Enrollment and Benefits from
2013 to 2017. American Journal of Public Health. 2019 Oct.; 109(10): 1446-1451.
https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305232]
Behn M, Pace L, Ku L. The Trump Administration’s Final Regulations Limit Insurance Coverage of
Contraception. Women’s Health Issues. 2019 Jan 7. p: S1049-3867.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.whi.2018.12.003
Han X, Pittman P, Erickson C, Mullan F, Ku L. Effect of the National Health Service Corps on Clinician
Staffing and Patient Visits in Federally Qualified Health Centers. Medical Care. 2019 Dec, 57(12): 1002-
7. 2019. DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001209.
Bruen BK, Ku L. The Effects of Community Health Center Care on Medical Expenditures for Children
and Adults: Propensity Score Analyses. Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 2019; 42(2): 128-37.
https://journals.lww.com/ambulatorycaremanagement/Fulltext/2019/04000/The_Effects_of_Community_
Health_Center_Care_on.8.aspx
Lantz P, Miller G, Ryhan C, Rosenbaum S, Ku L, Iovan S. “Pay for Success” Financing and Home-
Based Multicomponent Childhood Asthma Interventions: Modeling Results from the Detroit Medicaid
Population. Milbank Quarterly. 2018; 96(2): 272-99.
Brantley E, Greene J, Bruen B, Steinmetz E, Ku L. Policies Affecting Medicaid Beneficiaries’ Smoking
Cessation Behaviors. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 2018. 21(4): 197-204.
Holla N, Brantley E, Ku L. Physicians’ Recommendations to Medicaid Patients about Tobacco
Cessation. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Dec. 2018. 55(6): 762–769.
Ku L, Steinmetz E, Bysshe T, Bruen B. Crossing Boundaries: Medicaid and Public Health Collaborations
to Help Smokers Quit, Public Health Reports, 2017 Feb, Vol. 132(2) 164-170.
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Han X, Luo Q, Ku L. Medicaid Expansions and Increases in Grant Funding Increased the Capacity of
Community Health Centers, Health Affairs, 2017 Jan.; 36 (1):49-56.
Frogner B, Pittman P, Masselink L, Ku L. Do Years of Experience with EHRs Matter for Productivity in
Community Health Centers? Journal of Ambulatory Care Management. 2017 Jan/Mar; 40(1): 36-47.
Lantz P, Rosenbaum S, Ku L, Iovan S. Pay for Success Initiatives in the U.S.: Potential and Challenges
as a Strategy for Population Health Improvement, Health Affairs, 2016 Nov; 35:2053-2061
Pittman P, Masselink L, Bade L, Frogner B, Ku L. Determining Medical Staff Configurations in
Community Health Centers: CEO Perspectives. Journal of Healthcare Management, 61(5): 364-77,
Sept./Oct 2016.
Ku L, Brantley E, Bysshe T, Steinmetz E, Bruen B. How Medicaid and Other Public Policies Affect
Utilization of Tobacco Cessation. Preventing Chronic Diseases, 2016 Oct;13:160234. DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd13.160234.2016.
Labarthe D. Goldstein L, Antman E, Arnett D, Fonarow G, Alberts M, Hayman L, Khera A, Sallis J,
Daniels S, Sacco R, Li S, Ku L, Lantz P, Robinson J, Creager M, Van Horn L, Kris-Etherton P,
Bhatnagar A, Whitsel L. Evidence-Based Policy Making: Assessment of the American Heart
Association's Strategic Policy Portfolio. Circulation, 2016 May 3; 133(18):e615-53.
Ku L. Letter: Treating Unhealthy Behaviors: The Author Replies. Health Affairs, 35(3):551, March
2016.
Bruen B, Steinmetz E, Bysshe T, Glassman P, Ku L. Care for Potentially Preventable Dental Conditions
in Operating Rooms by Medicaid Children, Journal of the American Dental Association, 2016 Sept.
:147(9):702-708 (cover story)
Ku L, Bysshe T, Steinmetz E, Bruen B. Health Reform, Medicaid Expansions and Women’s Cancer
Screening, Women’s Health Issues, Feb. 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.whi.2016.01.0
August E, Steinmetz E, Gavin L, Rivera M, Pazol K, Moskosky S, Weik T, Ku L. Projecting the Unmet
Need and Costs for Contraception Services after Health Care Reform, American Journal of Public Health.
106(2): 334–341, Feb. 2016. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2015.302928
Ku L Bruen B, Steinmetz E, Bysshe T. Medicaid Tobacco Cessation: Big Gaps Remain In Efforts To Get
Smokers To Quit, Health Affairs, 35:62-70, Jan. 2016; doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2015.0756
Ku L. Capsule Commentary: Unauthorized Immigrants: Contributing to Medicare, But Left Out, Journal
of General Internal Medicine, 31(1):100, Jan. 2016.
Ku L. Immigrants Face Barriers Both as Health Care Patients and Providers, Harvard Health Policy
Review, 15(1):22-24, Fall 2015.
Jones E, Ku L. Sharing a Playbook: Integrated Care in Community Health Centers, American Journal of
Public Health. 105(1). 2028-2034, October 2015, doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302710
Jones E, Zur J, Rosenbaum S, Ku L. Opting Out of Medicaid Expansion: Impact on Encounters With
Behavioral Health Specialty Staff in Community Health Centers. Psychiatr Serv. 2015 Dec
1;66(12):1277-82.
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Zur J, Ku L. Factors Associated with Geographic Variation in Psychiatric Prescription Drug
Expenditures among Medicaid Beneficiaries, Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, epub
ahead of print July 24, 2015, doi: 10.1007/s11414-015-9471-x.
Ku L, Frogner B, Steinmetz E, Pittman P. Community Health Centers Use Diverse Staffing and Can
Provide Lessons for Other Medical Practices, Health Affairs 34(1):95-103, Jan. 2015.
Jones E, Ku L, Smith S, Lardiere M. County Workforce, Reimbursement, and Organizational Factors
Associated with Behavioral Health Capacity in Health Centers, Journal of Behavior and Health Services
Research, 2014 Apr;41(2):125-39.
Bruen B, Ku L, Lu X, Shin P. No Evidence That Primary Care Physicians Offer Less Care To
Medicaid, Community Health Center or Uninsured Patients, Health Affairs, 32(9): 1624-30, Sept. 2013.
Ku L, Steinmetz E, Bruen, B. Continuous Eligibility Policies Stabilize Medicaid Coverage for
Children and Could Be Extended to Adults with Similar Results, Health Affairs, 32(9): 1576-82, Sept.
2013.
Ku L, Sharac J, Bruen B, Thomas M, Norris L. Increased Use of Dental Services by Children Covered by
Medicaid: 2000-2010 Medicare and Medicaid Research Review 3(3): E1-E12. July 2013.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5600/mmrr.003.03.b01
Levy A, Bruen B, Ku L. Health Care Reform and Women’s Insurance Coverage for Breast and Cervical
Cancer Screening. Preventing Chronic Disease. 9: 120069. Oct. 25, 2012. DOI:
http//dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd9.120069.
Levy A, Bruen B, Ku L. The Potential Employment Impact of Health Reform on Working-Age Adults
With Disabilities, Journal of Disability Studies. 30 May 2012. DOI: 10.1177/1044207312446225
Willard R, Shah G, Leep C, Ku L. Impact of the 2008-2010 Economic Recession on Local Health
Departments, Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 18(2):106-114, Mar/Apr. 2012.
Richard P, West K, Ku L. The Return on Investment of a Medicaid Tobacco Cessation Program in
Massachusetts PLoS ONE, 7(1): e29665, January 2012. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029665.
Available at http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0029665
Rosenbaum S, Ku L, Lantz P, et al. Examining the Evidentiary Basis of Congress’s Commerce Clause
Power to Address Individuals’ Health Insurance Status, BNA’s Health Care Policy Report, Feb. 6, 2012,
p 1-9.
Richard P, Ku L, Dor A, Tan E, Shin P, Rosenbaum S. Cost Savings Associated with the Use of
Community Health Centers. Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, 35(1): 50-59. Jan-Mar. 2012.
Ku L, Jones E, Shin P, Burke FR, Long S. Safety-net providers after health care reform: lessons from
Massachusetts Archives of Internal Medicine, 171(15): 1379-84, Aug. 8, 2011.
Bruen B, Ku L, Burke M, Buntin M. More Than Four in Five Office-Based Physicians Could Quality for
Federal Electronic Health Record Incentives. Health Affairs, 30(3): 472-80, Mar. 2011.
Ku L, Jones K, Shin P, Bruen B, Hayes K. The States’ Next Challenge — Securing Enough Primary
Care for an Expanded Medicaid Population. New England Journal of Medicine 364(6):493-95, Feb. 10, 6
2011. Also supplementary appendix available at
http://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMp1011623/suppl file/nejmp1011623 appendix.pdf
Ku L Ready, Set, Plan, Implement. Executing Medicaid’s Expansion. Health Affairs, 29(6): 1173-77,
June 2010.
Ku L, Pervez F. Documenting Citizenship in Medicaid: The Struggle Between Ideology and Evidence,
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 35(1): 5-28, February 2010.
Ku L. Medical and Dental Care Utilization and Expenditures Under Medicaid and Private Health
Insurance, Medical Care Research and Review, 66(4):456-71, August 2009.
Ku L Health Insurance Coverage and Medical Expenditures for Immigrants and Native-Born Citizens in
the United States, American Journal of Public Health, 99(7): 1322-28, July 2009.
Ku L, Broaddus M. Public and Private Health Insurance: Stacking Up the Costs, Health Affairs,
27(4):w318-327, June 2008. Also, Technical Appendix: Public and Private Health Insurance: Stacking
Up the Costs, at http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/hlthaff.27.4.w318/DC2.
[Note between 2000 and 2008, I was working at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and was not
principally working on refereed publications.]
Ku L Improving Health Insurance and Access to Care for Children in Immigrant Families, Ambulatory
Pediatrics, 7(6):412-20, November 2007.
Ponce, N., Ku L, Cunningham W, Brown ER. Language Barriers to Health Care Access Among
Medicare Beneficiaries, Inquiry, 43(1):66–76, Spring 2006.
Ku L, Flores G. Pay Now or Pay Later: Providing Interpreter Services In Health Care, Health Affairs,
24(2) 435-44, March/April 2005.
Park E, Ku L, Broaddus M, More Than 900,000 Children Will Lose Health Insurance Due to Reductions
in Federal SCHIP Funding, International Journal of Health Services, 33(2), 2003.
Ku L. The Number of Americans Without Health Insurance Rose in 2001 and Appears to Be Continuing
to Rise in 2002, International Journal of Health Services, 33(2), 2003.
Lessard G, Ku L. Gaps in Coverage for Children in Immigrant Families, The Future of Children,
13(1):101-115, Spring 2003.
Ku L, St. Louis M, Black C, Aral S, Turner C, Lindberg L, Sonenstein F. Risk Behaviors, Medical Care
and Chlamydial Infection Among Young Men in the United States, American Journal of Public Health,
92(7): 1140-42, July 2002.
Ku L, Matani S. Left Out: Immigrants’ Access to Health Care and Insurance, Health Affairs, 20(1):247-
56, Jan./Feb. 2001.
Ku L, Ellwood M, Hoag S, Ormond B, Wooldridge J. The Evolution of Medicaid Managed Care Systems
and Eligibility Expansions, Health Care Financing Review, 22(2):7-29, Winter 2000.
Coughlin T, Ku L, Kim J., Reforming the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Program in the 1990s, Health
Care Financing Review, 22(2):137-58, Winter 2000. 7
Ku L, Coughlin T, Sliding Scale Premium Health Insurance Programs: Four States’ Experience, Inquiry,
36(4):471-80, Winter 2000.
Lindberg L, Ku L, Sonenstein F, Adolescents' reports of reproductive health education, 1988 and 1995.
Family Planning Perspectives, 32(5):220-6, Sept./Oct. 2000.
Porter L, Ku L. Use of Reproductive Health Services Among Young Men, 1995 Journal of Adolescent
Health, 27(3):186-94, September 2000.
Bradner C, Ku L, Lindberg L. Older, but Not Wiser: How Do Men Get AIDS and Sexually Transmitted
Disease Information after High School?, Family Planning Perspectives, 32(1):33-39, January/February
2000.
Lindberg L, Ku L, Sonenstein F. Adolescent Males' Combined Use of Condoms with Partners' Use of
Female Contraceptive Methods, Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2(4): 201-9, Spring 1999.
Ku L, Sonenstein F, Lindberg L, Bradner C, Boggess S, Pleck J. Understanding Changes in Sexual
Activity Among Young Metropolitan Men: 1979 to 1995, Family Planning Perspectives, 30(6): 256-62,
November/ December 1998.
Ku L, Hoag S. Medicaid Managed Care and the Marketplace, Inquiry, 35(3):332-45, Fall 1998.
Ellwood MR, Ku L. Welfare and Immigration Reforms: Unintended Side Effects for Medicaid, Health
Affairs, 17(3):137-51, May/June 1998.
Sonenstein F, Pleck J, Ku L, Lindberg L, Turner C. Changes in Sexual Behavior and Condom Use
Among Teenaged Males: 1988 to 1995, American Journal of Public Health, 88(6):956-959, June 1998.
Turner C, Ku L, Rogers S, Lindberg L Pleck J, Sonenstein F. Adolescent Sexual Behavior, Drug Use and
Violence: New Survey Technology Detects Elevated Prevalence Among U.S. Males, Science, 280:867-
73, May 8, 1998.
Ku L, Sonenstein F, Turner C, Aral S, Black C, The Potential of Integrated Representative Surveys about
STDs and Risk Behaviors, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 24(5):299-309, May 1997.
Lindberg L, Sonenstein F, Ku L , Levine G, Young Men's Experience with Condom Breakage, Family
Planning Perspectives, 29(3): 132-36, May/June 1997.
Pleck JH, Sonenstein F, Ku L. Black-white Differences in Adolescent Males' Substance Use: Are They
Explained by Underreporting in Blacks?, Journal of Gender, Culture, and Health, 2, 247-265, 1997
Lindberg L, Sonenstein F, Ku L, Martinez G. Age Differences Between Minors Who Give Birth and
Their Adult Partners, Family Planning Perspectives, 29(2):52-60, March/April 1997.
Sonenstein F, Ku L, Schulte M, Reproductive Health Care -- Patterns in a Changing Health Care Market,
Western Journal of Medicine, 163(3 Suppl):7-14, September 1995.
Ku L, Coughlin T. Medicaid Disproportionate Share and Other Special Financing Programs, Health Care
Financing Review, 16(3): 27-54, Spring 1995.
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Holahan J, Coughlin T, Ku L, Lipson D, Rajan S. Insuring the Poor through Medicaid 1115 Waivers,
Health Affairs, 14(1): 200-17, Spring 1995.
Coughlin T, Ku L, Holahan J, Heslam D, Winterbottom C. State Responses to the Medicaid Spending
Crisis: 1988 to 1992, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 19(4):837-64, Winter 1994.
Ku L, Sonenstein F, Pleck J. The Dynamics of Young Men's Condom Use During and Between
Relationships, Family Planning Perspectives, 26(6): 246-251, November/ December 1994.
Pleck J, Sonenstein F, Ku L. Attitudes Toward Male Roles: A Discriminant Validity Analysis, Sex Roles,
30(7/8):481-501, 1994.
Ku L, Sonenstein F, Pleck J. Factors Affecting First Intercourse Among Young Men, Public Health
Reports, 108(6):680-94, November/December 1993.
Ku L, Sonenstein F, Pleck J. Neighborhood, Work and Family: Influences on the Premarital Behaviors of
Adolescent Men, Social Forces, 72(2):479-503, December 1993.
Ku L, Sonenstein F, Pleck J. Young Men's Risk Behaviors for HIV Infection and Sexually Transmitted
Diseases, 1988 through 1991, American Journal of Public Health, 83(11):1609-15, November 1993.
Pleck J, Sonenstein F, Ku L. Changes in Adolescent Males' Use of and Attitudes Towards Condoms:
1988-91, Family Planning Perspectives, 25(3):100-105, 117, May/June 1993.
Pleck J, Sonenstein F, Ku L. Masculine Ideology: Its Impact on Adolescent Males' Heterosexual
Relationships, Journal of Social Issues, 49(3):11-30, 1993.
Ku L, Sonenstein F, Pleck J. The Association of AIDS Education and Sex Education with Sexual
Behavior and Condom Use Among Teenage Men, Family Planning Perspectives, 24(3):100-106,
May/June 1992 (erratum, Family Planning Perspectives, 25(1):36, January/February 1993).
Ku L, Sonenstein F, Pleck J, Patterns of HIV Risk and Preventive Behaviors Among Teenage Men,
Public Health Reports, 107(2):131-38, March/April 1992.
Sonenstein F, Pleck J, Ku L, Levels of Sexual Activity Among Adolescent Males in the United States,
Family Planning Perspectives, 23(4):162-67, July /August 1991.
Pleck J, Sonenstein F, Ku L, Adolescent Males' Condom Use: The Influence of Perceived Costs-Benefits
on Consistency, Journal of Marriage and the Family, 53:733-45, August 1991.
Pleck J, Sonenstein F, Ku L, Contraceptive Attitudes and Intention to Use Condoms in Sexually
Experienced and Inexperienced Adolescent Males, Journal of Family Issues, 11(3):294-312, Sept. 1990.
Ku L, Ellwood MR, Klemm J. Deciphering Medicaid Data: Issues and Needs, Health Care Financing
Review, 1990 Annual Supplement, p. 35-45.
Ku L, Fisher D, Attitudes of Physicians Toward Health Care Cost Containment Policies, HSR: Health
Services Research, 25(1):25-42, April 1990 (Part I).
Sonenstein F, Pleck J, Ku L. Sexual Activity, Condom Use and AIDS Awareness Among Adolescent
Males, Family Planning Perspectives, 21(4):152-58, July/August 1989.
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Branch L, Ku L. Transition Probabilities to Disability, Institutionalization and Death for the Elderly Over
a Decade, Journal of Aging and Health, 1(3):370-408, August 1989.
Ku L. Early Prenatal Enrollment in the WIC Program, Public Health Reports, 104(3): 301-06, May/June
1989.
Ku L, Shapiro L, Crawford P, Huenemann R. Body Composition and Physical Activity in Eight Year Old
Children, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 34(12):2770-75, 1981.
Persellin R, Ku L. Effects of Steroid Hormones on Human Polymorphonuclear Leukocyte Lysosomes,
Journal of Clinical Investigation, 54(4):919-25, 1974.
Books Authored or Co-authored
Ku L, Lin M, Broaddus M, Improving Children's Health: A Chartbook about the Roles of Medicaid and
SCHIP: 2007 Edition, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Jan. 2007.
Ku L, Nimalendran S. Improving Children’s Health: A Chartbook About the Roles of Medicaid and
SCHIP, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Jan. 15. 2004
Coughlin T, Ku L, Holahan J, Medicaid Since 1980: Costs, Coverage and the Shifting Alliance Between
the Federal Government and the States, Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press, 1994. (Selected by
Choice as one of ten outstanding academic books for 1994.)
Sorensen, E, Bean F, Ku L, Zimmerman W, Immigrant Categories and the U.S. Job Market: Do They
Make a Difference?, Urban Institute Report 92-1, Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press, 1992.
Articles or Chapters in Books (Refereed)
Ku L (contributor), CCH;s Law, Explanation and Analysis of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care
Act, Vol.1, Commerce Clearinghouse, Wolters Kluwer, 2010.
Ku L. Changes in Immigrants’ Use of Medicaid and Food Stamps: the Role of Eligibility and Other
Factors, in Immigrants and Welfare, edited by Michael Fix, Russell Sage Foundation and Migration
Policy Institute, 2009, p, 153-92.
Ku L, Papademetrios DG. Access to Health Care and Health Insurance: Immigrants and Immigration, in
Securing America’s Future: U.S. Immigrant Integration Policy Reader, M. Fix, editor, Migration Policy
Institute, Feb. 2007.
Ku L. Prepared Statement. Insurance Coverage and Health Care Access for Immigrant Families, Living
Without Health Insurance. Hearings of the Senate Committee on Finance, United States Senate on Who’s
Uninsured and Why? And Solutions to the Problem. March 13 and 15, 2001. S. Hrg 107-81. U.S. Govt
Printing Office. Pg. 148-53.
https://books.google.com/books?id=ysrYaJZAew0C&pg=PA112&lpg=PA112&dq=Hearing+on+Who%2
7s+Uninsured+%26+Why?+%26+Solutions+to+the+Problem:+Charles+Grassley&source=bl&ots=l7enG
HC7pB&sig=ACfU3U2m YwHwAYhqSNaVng1PWTFhFdgMQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjJ0 G5
5pznAhXvmOAKHTH2BYIQ6AEwAHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Hearing%20on%20 Who's%20Unin
sured%20%26%20Why%3F%20%26%20Solutions%20to%20the%20Problem%3A%20Charles%20Gras
sley&f=false
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Sonenstein FL., Ellen J, Pleck J, Ku L. Taking Risks: Understanding Adolescents’ Behavior, in STDs in
Adolescents: Challenges for the 21st Century, edited by P. Hitchcock, et al. New York: Oxford
University Press Inc.1999.
Ku L, Wooldridge J, Rajan S, Ellwood MR, Dubay L, Coughlin T, Hoag S, Wall S. The New
Generation of Statewide Medicaid Managed Care Programs: State Health Reform Projects in Hawaii,
Oklahoma, Rhode Island and Tennessee in Remaking Medicaid: Managed Care for the Public Good,
edited by Steve Davidson and Steve Somers, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 1998, p. 147-78.
Wooldridge J, Ku L, Coughlin T, Dubay L., Ellwood MR, Rajan S, Hoag S, Reforming State Medicaid
Programs: First Year Implementation Experiences from Three States, in Contemporary Managed Care,
edited by Marsha Gold, Health Administration Press, pp. 211-26, 1998.
Sonenstein F, Ku L, Pleck J. Measuring Sexual Behavior Among Teenage Males in the U.S., in
Researching Sexual Behavior: Methodological Issues, Bancroft, J., ed., Bloomington, IN: Indiana
University Press, p. 87-105, 1997.
Turner, CF, Ku L, Sonenstein FL, Pleck JH, Impact of Audio-CASI on Reporting of Male-male Sexual
Contacts: Preliminary Findings from the National Survey of Adolescent Males, in Health Survey
Research Methods: Conference Proceedings, Warnecke, R.B., ed., Hyattsville, MD: National Center for
Health Statistics, p. 171-76, 1995.
Pleck J, Sonenstein F, Ku L, Problem Behaviors and Masculinity Ideology in Adolescent Males, in
Adolescent Problem Behaviors: Issues and Research, R. Ketterlinus and M. Lamb, eds., Hillsdale, NJ:
Erlbaum, 1994, p. 165-186.
Holahan J, Coughlin T, Ku L, Heslam D, Winterbottom C, Understanding the Recent Growth in
Medicaid Spending, in Medicaid Financing Crisis: Balancing Responsibilities, Priorities and Dollars, D.
Rowland, J. Feder and A. Salganicoff, eds., Washington, DC: AAAS Press, 1993, p. 23-44.
Sonenstein F, Pleck J, Ku L. Paternity Risk Among Adolescent Males in Young Unwed Fathers:
Changing Roles and Emerging Policies, R. Lerman and T. Ooms, eds., Philadelphia, PA: Temple Univ.
Press, p. 99-116, 1993.
Pleck J, Sonenstein F, Ku L. Masculine Ideology and Its Correlates in Gender Issues in Contemporary
Society, S. Oskamp and M. Constanzo, eds., Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology,
Newbury Park: Sage Publications, p. 85-110, 1993.
Translational and Other Reports, Briefs, Blogs and Publications
Health Policy
[Note: Reports marked with [PR] went through an external peer-review process prior to release.]
Ku L, Brantley E. The Economic and Employment Effects of Medicaid Expansions Under the American
Rescue Plan. Commonwealth Fund. May 21, 2021.
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2021/may/economic-employment-effects-
medicaid-expansion-under-arp?utm source=alert&utm medium=email&utm campaign=Medicaid.
Technical appendix at https://www.commonwealthfund.org/sites/default/files/2021-
05/Ku economic employment effects medicaid expansion ARP TECHNICAL APPENDIX.pdf.
[There was substantial press coverage for this report, including both national and regional media,
including public radio’s Marketplace.]
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Ku L, Brantley E. Analysis of Montana SB 100 and Policies to Limit Medicaid 12-Month Continuous
Eligibility. April 7, 2021. https://mthcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/analysis-of-SB-100-4-7-21.pdf
Sharac J, Shin P, Ku L, Jacobs F, Rosenbaum S. Community Health Centers Move to Frontline Providers
of COVID-19 Immunization Services Under President Biden’s Health Center COVID-19 Vaccine
Program. Geiger Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative Data Note.
Feb. 18, 2021. http://gwhpmmatters.com/community-health-centers-move-frontline-providers-covid-19-
immunization-services-under-president
Brantley E, Ku L, Rosenbaum S, Handley M, Morris RE. As the Biden Administration Begins
Unwinding Them, Medicaid Work Experiments Remain Unreasonable, Unnecessary and Harmful. Health
Affairs Blog. Feb. 17, 2021. https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20210216.717854/full/
Ku, L. Brantley E. Analysis of the Impact of Dental Assignment of Benefit Laws.
Report to the American Dental Association and Fleishman Hillard. December 2, 2020.
Ku, L. Declaration in Support of Plaintiffs, State of New York, et a v Donald Trump, et al. (regarding
health harm of postal service delays) in United States District Court for the District of Columbia,
September 1, 2020.
Ku, L. Declaration in Support of Plaintiffs, Domingo A. Gomez, et al v. Donald J. Trump, et al.,
(regarding Presidential Proclamations about limiting entry of immigrants in light of COVID-19
pandemic) in United States District Court for the District of Columbia, July 29, 2020.
Ku L. Estimates of Insurance Coverage and Delays in Medical Care for the Nation and District of
Columbia, May 21 – June 16, 2020. For DC Health Benefits Exchange Authority. July 5, 2020.
https://hbx.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/hbx/event content/attachments/Estimates%20of%20
Insurance%20Coverage%20and%20Delays%20in%20Medical%20Care 1.pdf
Ku L, Brantley E. Continuous Medicaid Eligibility for Children and Their Health. Association of
Community Affiliated Plans. May 2020. https://www.communityplans.net/wp-
content/uploads/2020/06/GW-continuous-eligibility-paper.pdf
Ku L, Brantley E. Widening Social and Health Inequalities During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA
Health Forum. June 10, 2020. https://jamanetwork.com/channels/health-
forum/fullarticle/2767253?utm source=silverchair&utm medium=email&utm campaign=article alert-
jhf&utm content=olf&utm term=061120
Ku, L. Declaration in Support of Plaintiffs, New York vs. Department of Labor, et al. (regarding
regulations about paid sick and family leave under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act), United
States District Court, Southern District of New York, May 4, 2020.
Ku L. Declaration in Support of Respondents, Department of Homeland Security v New York, et al.
(regarding public charge rule and injunction). Supreme Court of the United States. April 10, 2020.
(subsequently used again in U.S, District Court of Southern New York and cited in decisions.)
Ku L. Assessing the Presidential Proclamation on Visas and Health Insurance. Health Affairs Blog. Dec.
17, 2019. https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20191217.16090/full/
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Ku L. Declaration in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for a Preliminary Injunction (regarding Presidential
Proclamation on Visas and Health Insurance), John Doe #1, et al. v Donald Trump, et al. United States
District Court, District of Oregon, filed November 8, 2019. (Cited in November 26 court decision)
Ku L. Brantley E. Indiana’s Medicaid Work Requirements Program Is Expected to Cause Tens of
Thousands to Lose Coverage. Oct. 28, 2019. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2019/indianas-
medicaid-work-requirement-program-expected-cause-tens-thousands-lose-coverage
Ku L. Op-Ed: Medicaid Expansion Can and Does Expand Access to Care. Capitol Broadcasting
Corporation. Oct. 16, 2019.
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/WhctKJVZrXGHBvSwwqpStCWklCtsCQcFsLvZxSHCLmtRjL
gFWhRBwPhHqtBqjxsksKdGFxq Similar letter to the Editor, Raleigh News and Observer,. Oct. 16,
2019. https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article236193038.html
Ku L. New Evidence Demonstrating That the Public Charge Rule Will Harm Immigrant Families and
Others. Health Affairs Blog. October 9, 2019.
https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20191008.70483/full/
Ku L. Declaration in Support of Plaintiffs' Motion for a Preliminary Injunction (regarding public charge
regulation), La Clinica de la Raza, et al. v. Donald Trump, et al. United States District Court, Northern
District of California, September 1, 2019. https://healthlaw.org/resource/declaration-of-leighton-ku-in-la-
clinica-de-la-raza-v-trump/. Similar declarations in Make the Road New York, et al v Ken Cucinelli, et al.
United States District Court, Southern District of New York, Sept. 9, 2019. State of New York, et al. v.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, et al. United States District Court, Southern District of New
York, Sept. 9, 2019. These declarations were filed again in subsequent appeals for these cases and in the
District Court for the Southern District of New York decisions by George Daniels June 29, 2020).
Ku L, Bruen B, Brantley E. The Economic and Employment Benefits of Expanding Medicaid in North
Carolina: A 2019 Update. Cone Health Foundation and Kate B Reynolds Charitable Trust. June 26,
2019. Ncmedicaidexpansion.com
Ku L, Brantley E. Approved Medicaid Work Requirement Demonstration Projects in Nine States Could
Cause About 600,000 to 800,000 Adults to Lose Medicaid Coverage. Commonwealth Fund. Blog. June
21, 2019. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2019/medicaid-work-requirements-nine-
states-could-cause-600000-800000-adults-lose-coverage
Rosenbaum S, Rothenberg S, Velasquez M, Ku L, Brantley E. Are 1115 Medicaid Work Requirement
Demonstrations Experimental Initiatives or a Way to Side-Step Congress? June 6, 2019.
http://gwhpmmatters.com/blog-are-1115-medicaid-work-requirement-demonstrations-experimental-
initiatives-or-way-side-step
Ku L, Brantley E. New Hampshire’s Medicaid Work Requirements Could Cause More than 15,000 to
Lose Coverage. Commonwealth Fund Blog. May 9, 2019. [PR]
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2019/new-hampshires-medicaid-work-requirements-
could-cause-coverage-loss
Chen CP, Ku, L, Regenstein M, Mullan F. Examining the Cost Effectiveness of Teaching Health
Centers. Geiger Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative. Policy Brief
#58. March 2019. http://gwhpmmatters.com/sites/default/files/2019-
03/Examining%20the%20Cost%20Effectiveness%20of%20Teaching%20Health%20Centers%20%28Che
n%2C%20Ku%2C%20Regenstein%2C%20Mullan%29%20Mar%2021%2C%202019.pdf
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Ku L, Brantley E. Proposed Work Requirements in Montana’s Medicaid Program: An Update. Mar. 15,
2019, revised. https://mthcf.org/resources/report-medicaid-work-requirements/
Ku L (primary author) and many co-signers. Comment Letter to Food and Nutrition Service, USDA on
Proposed Rule: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Requirements for Able-Bodied Adults
without Dependents, RIN 0584-AE57, Submitted thru regulations.gov. March 15, 2019.
Ku L, Brantley E. Potential Effects of Work Requirements in Montana’s Medicaid Program. Montana
Healthcare Foundation. Feb. 13, 2019. https://mthcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Potential-Effects-
of-Work-Requirements-in-Montana%E2%80%99s-Medicaid-Program-Ku-Brantley-2-13-19.pdf.
Ku L, Brantley E. Updated Estimates of the Effects of Medicaid Work Requirements in Kentucky. GW
Health Policy Matters. Jan. 4, 2019. http://gwhealthpolicymatters.com/sites/default/files/2019-
01/Updated%20Estimates%20of%20the%20Effects%20of%20Medicaid%20Work%20Requirements%20
in%20Kentucky%20%28Ku%2C%20Brantley%29%20GWHPMMatters%201-4-19.pdf
Ku L (primary author) and many co-signers. Comment Letter to US Department of Homeland Security:
RIN 1615-AA22 “Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds”. Dec. 9, 2018 Submitted thru
regulations.gov.
Ku L, Sharac J, Gunsalus R, Shin P, Rosenbaum S. How Could the Public Charge Proposed Rule Affect
Community Health Centers? Policy Brief # 55. Geiger Gibson RCHN Community Health Research
Collaborative. Nov 2018.
https://publichealth.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/GGRCHN/Public%20Charge%20Brief.pdf
Ku L, Pillai D. The Economic Mobility of Immigrants: Public Charge Rules Could Foreclose Future
Opportunities. Nov. 15, 2018. Social Science Research Network. http://ssrn.com/abstract=3285546
[This was in the top five downloaded reports about immigration for SSRN for late 2018.]
Ku L, Brantley E, Steinmetz E, Bruen B, Pillai D. Medicaid Work Requirements: Will They Help the
Unemployed Get Jobs or Improve Health. Issue Brief. Commonwealth Fund. Nov. 2018
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2018/nov/medicaid-work-requirements-
will-they-help-jobs-health
Brantley E, Ku L. Arkansas’ Early Experience with Work Requirements Signals Larger Losses to Come.
Commonwealth Fund Blog. Oct. 31, 2018. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2018/arkansas-
early-experience-work-requirements
Ku L (primary author). Brief of the Amici Curiae Public Health Scholars in Support of Plaintiff-Appellant
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Filed in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. United States
Department of Health and Human Services, et al. to the US Court of Appeals for the First
Circuit, Sept. 24, 2018.
Vyas A, Wood SF, Landry M, Masselink L, Mead H, Ku L. District of Columbia Family Planning
Community Needs Assessment. Conducted by The George Washington University Milken Institute
School of Public Health for Washington Area Women’s Foundation, DC Family Planning Project. Sept.
2018. [PR] https://thewomensfoundation.org/2018/new-report-family-planning-community-needs-
assessment/
Erikson C, Han X, Ku L, Pittman P. Contribution of the National Health Service Corps Providers and
Alumni to Medicare Beneficiaries in 2015. GW Health Workforce Institute. Aug. 2018. https://user-
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niv7hdi.cld.bz/Contribution-of-the-NHSC-Providers-and-Recent-Alumni-to-Medicare-Beneficiaries-in-
2015/2/
Brantley E, Ku L. A First Glance at Medicaid Work Requirements in Arkansas: More Than One-Quarter
Did Not Meet Requirement. Health Affairs Blog. Aug. 13, 2018.
https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20180812.221535/full/
Ku L, Shin P, Sharac J, Rosenbaum S. Legacy Community Health Services v Smith: What are the
National Implications for Community Health Centers and Their Communities? Geiger Gibson/RCHN
Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative Policy Research Brief # 53. August 2018.
https://www.rchnfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Legacy-GG-IB-53 FINAL 8.2.pdf
Ku L. Blog: The District of Columbia Is Trying to Preserve Health Insurance Coverage; Congress Is
Trying to Interfere. Health Affairs Blog. July 23, 2018.
https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20180722.933880/full/
Ku L. Blog: The New District of Columbia Policy to Protect Insurance Coverage. July 5, 2018.
http://gwhealthpolicymatters.com/blog-new-district-columbia-policy-protect-insurance-coverage.
Ku L. Data About Contraceptive Needs in the U.S. After the Affordable Care Act. June 26, 2018. [PR]
http://gwhealthpolicymatters.com/data-about-contraceptive-needs-us-after-affordable-care-act.
Ku L. Declaration about Public Health and Employment Effects of Terminating the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Filed in support of the Mexican American Legal Defense and
Educational Fund and the state of New Jersey, intervenors, in Texas v. United States in suit in Federal
District Court of Southern District of Texas, June 14, 2018.
Brantley E, Ku L. Work Requirements: SNAP Data Show Medicaid Losses Could Be Much Faster and
Deeper Than Projected. Health Affairs Blog. April 12, 2018.
https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20180412.310199/full/
Ku L. What is the Evidence of the Effects of the ACA’s Individual Mandate and of Its Repeal? DC
Health Benefits Exchange Authority. Revised Feb. 12, 2018.
Ku L. It Makes More Sense to Strengthen SHOP Than to Expand Association Health Plans. Jan. 4,
2018. http://gwhealthpolicymatters.com/blog-it-makes-more-sense-strengthen-shop-expand-association-
health-plans
Ku L, Steinmetz E. State Economic and Employment Losses If Community Health Center Funding Is
Not Restored. Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative Policy
Research Brief # 51. Dec. 4, 2017. [PR]
https://publichealth.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/GGRCHN/State%20Economic%20and%20Em
ployment%20Losses%20if%20CHC%20Funding%20is%20Not%20Restored%2051.pdf
Ku L. Declaration about Public Health Effects of Terminating the Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) program. Filed in support of the state of New York and other plaintiff states, New
York, et al. v. Trump in suit in Federal District Court of Eastern New York, Nov. 22, 2017.
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Ku L. May You Live in Interesting Times: The Challenges of Health Policy Analysis in a Turbulent
Period. GW Health Policy Matters. Oct. 2, 2017. http://gwhealthpolicymatters.com/may-you-live-
interesting-times-challenges-health-policy-analysis-turbulent-period-0
Ku L, Steinmetz E, Brantley E, Pillai D. The Graham-Cassidy Proposal Would Eliminate a Third of a
Million Jobs, To the Point, The Commonwealth Fund, Sept. 26, 2017, [PR] available at:
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/blog/2017/sep/graham-cassidy-job-loss. Methods
appendix at http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/files/publications/blog/2017/gc-methods-
appendix final.pdf
Ku L, Seiler N. Medicaid Expansions Help States Cope with the Opioid Epidemic. GW Dept of Health
Policy and Management. July 25, 2017.
https://publichealth.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/images/Medicaid%20Expansions%20Help%20States%20
Cope%20with%20the%20Opioid%20Epidemic%207-25-17%20report.pdf
Ku L. Cutting immigrants’ access to health insurance would drive up costs for many Americans.
Washington Post, Letter to the Editor. July 18, 2017.
Ku L, Steinmetz E, Brantley E, Holla N, Bruen B. The Better Care Reconciliation Act: Economic and
Employment Consequences for States. Commonwealth Fund, July 6, 2017.[PR]
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2017/jul/bcra-economic-employment-
consequences-states
Bruen BK, Ku L. Community Health Centers Reduce the Costs of Children’s Health Care. Geiger
Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative Policy Research Brief # 48. June
22, 2017.
https://publichealth.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/GGRCHN/Brief%2048%20Child%20Cost%20
Savings.pdf
Ku L, Steinmetz E, Brantley E, Holla N, Bruen B. The American Health Care Act: Economic and
Employment Consequences for States. Commonwealth Fund, June 14, 2017. [PR]
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2017/jun/ahca-economic-and-employment-
consequences
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report, the June 14 and July 6 reports gained considerable interest and were widely
cited by the media and by federal and state policy officials. This series of reports were among the most
often downloaded reports for the Commonwealth Fund.]
Ku L, Paradise J, Thompson V. Data Note: Medicaid’s Role in Providing Access to Preventive Care for
Adults. Kaiser Commission for Medicaid and the Uninsured. May 17, 2017. [PR]
http://kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/data-note-medicaids-role-in-providing-access-to-preventive-care-for-
adults/
Ku L In podcast: ACA Repeal Waves Goodbye to 3 Million Jobs and $1.5 Trillion. The Working Life.
May 10, 2017. http://www.workinglife.org/politics/episode-29-aca-repeal-waves-goodbye-to-3-million-
jobs-1-5-trillion/
Ku L, Brantley E. Medicaid Work Requirements: Who’s at Risk? Health Affairs Blog, April 12, 2017.
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2017/04/12/medicaid-work-requirements-whos-at-risk/
Ku L, Brantley E. Myths about the Medicaid Expansion and the “Able-Bodied.” Health Affairs Blog,
March 6, 2017. http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2017/03/06/myths-about-the-medicaid-expansion-and-the-
able-bodied/
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Ku L In podcast: The Financial Consequences of ACA Repeal. The Commonwealth Fund. Feb. 15,
2017. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/interactives-and-data/multimedia/podcasts/new-directions-in-
health-care/the-impact-of-aca-repeal
Bennett J, Brown C, Ku L, Bruen B. The Economic, Fiscal and Employment Effects of Health Care
Modernization in Oklahoma. State Chamber (of Commerce) Research Foundation. Feb. 1, 2017. [PR]
http://www.okstatechamber.com/sites/www.okstatechamber.com/files/OK%20Study%20-
%20REMI%20FINAL.pdf
Mitchell K. Interview with Leighton Ku. GW Expert: Repealing Obamacare Would Hurt Patients,
Economy. GW Today. Jan. 17, 2017. https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/gw-expert-repealing-obamacare-would-
hurt-patients-economy
Ku L Steinmetz E, Brantley E, Bruen B. Repealing Federal Health Reform: The Economic and
Employment Consequences for States. Brief, Commonwealth Fund, Jan. 6, 2017.
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Publications/Issue-Briefs/2017/Jan/Repealing-Federal-Health-
Reform [PR]
Ku L Steinmetz E, Brantley E, Bruen B. The Economic and Employment Consequences of Repealing
Federal Health Reform: A 50 State Analysis. Milken Institute School of Public Health, George
Washington University. Jan. 6, 2017.
https://publichealth.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/HPM/Repealing Federal Health Reform.pdf
[PR]
[Note: The Jan. 6 reports were reported widely in numerous media including CBS, NBC, NPR, Forbes,
Fortune, the Atlantic, etc. Findings were frequently cited by Congressmen and Senators in Congressional
floor debates about repeal of the Affordable Care Act. One of the most popular Commonwealth Fund
reports in 2017]
Ku L, Steinmetz E, Bruen B. Changes in Insurance Coverage and Cardiovascular Risk for U.S. Adults in
States Expanding and Not Expanding Medicaid. Dec. 2016 George Washington University and American
Heart Association. [PR]
https://publichealth.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/HPM/Americans%20Cardiovascular%20Risk
%20and%20Changes%20in%20Health%20Insurance%20Coverage%20Dec%2016.pdf
Ku L. DC Health Link Has Expanded Health Insurance Coverage in the District. DC Health Benefits
Exchange Authority, Sept. 29, 2016 [no author listed]
http://hbx.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/hbx/publication/attachments/SurveyReportGainedCoverage%
20final.pdf
Ku L. Up in smoke: We’ll spend billions tomorrow for not helping poor people quit smoking today, The
Conversation. July 12, 2016. https://theconversation.com/up-in-smoke-well-spend-billions-tomorrow-
for-not-helping-poor-people-quit-smoking-today-60686
Ku L. The Role of Medicaid In Pay For Success Models For Supportive Housing For Chronically
Homeless Individuals: Opportunities And Challenges, Report to Office of the Assistant Secretary for
Planning and Evaluation, HHS, under review. [PR]
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Regenstein M, Jewers M, Nocella K, Goldberg D, Strasser J, Ku L, Mullan F. Cost Estimates for
Training a Resident in a Teaching Health Center. Report to HRSA. GW Dept. of Health Policy and
Management, Feb. 2016. [PR]
Lantz,P, Rosenbaum S., Ku L et al. Opportunities for Pay for Success Demonstrations in HHS Programs,
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, HHS, forthcoming. [PR]
Ku L, Steinmetz E, Bruen B., Bysshe T. Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Insurance
Coverage of Americans at Risk of Cardiovascular Disease, Washington, DC: American Heart
Association. Jan. 2016.
Ku L, Steinmetz, E, Bysshe T. Continuity of Medicaid Coverage in an Era of Transition, Washington,
DC: Association of Community Affiliated Plans, Nov. 1, 2015. [PR]
Ku L, Bysshe T, Steinmetz E, Bruen B. Health Reform and the Implications for Cancer Screening.
Report to American Cancer Society, Sept. 2015
Ku L, Bysshe T, Wu. X. The Changing Community Health Center Workforce: 2007-13, GW Health
Workforce Research Center, Sept. 22, 2015. [PR]
https://www.gwhwi.org/uploads/4/3/3/5/43358451/report_the_changing_community_health_cent
er__8-10-15_.pdf
Ku L, Mullan F, Serrano C, Barber Z, Shin P. Teaching Health Centers: A Promising Approach for
Building Primary Care Workforce for the 21st Century. Geiger Gibson / RCHN Community Health
Foundation Research Collaborative Policy Research Brief # 40, March 10, 2015.
http://www.rchnfoundation.org/?p=4651
Rosenbaum S, Ku l, et al. (unnamed authors). Amici Curiae Brief Of Public Health Deans, Chairs, And
Faculty And The American Public Health Association In Support Of Respondents to the Supreme
Court of the United States re: King v Burwell. Jan. 28, 2015. [PR]
Ku L. Covering the Uninsured Through DC Health Link: Report on the First Year. DC Health Benefits
Exchange Authority, Dec. 26, 2014. http://hbx.dc.gov/node/978322 [PR]
Ku L, Bruen B, Steinmetz E, Bysshe T. The Economic and Employment Costs of Not Expanding
Medicaid in North Carolina: A County-Level Analysis. Dec. 2014. Cone Health Foundation and Kate B.
Reynolds Charitable Trust. At www.ncmedicaidexpansion.com {PR]
Ku L, Bruen B, Steinmetz E, Brown C., Motamedi R, Stottlemyer C. Economic and Employment Effects
of Expanding KanCare. Kansas Hospital Association, Nov. 2014 at http://www.kha-net.org/.
Steinmetz E, Bruen, B, Ku L. Children’s Use of Dental Care in Medicaid: Federal Fiscal Years 2000 –
2012. Report to CMS, Oct. 2014. Posted at http://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid-chip-program-
information/by-topics/benefits/dental-trends-2000-to-2012.pdf. [PR]
Stewart A, Cox M, Ku L. Health Insurance Benefits Advisors: Understanding Responsibilities,
Regulations, Restrictions and Relevance in Implementing the Affordable Care Act. GW Dept of Health
Policy, Sept. 2014. [PR]
Ku L Zur, J. Jones E, Shin P, Rosenbaum S. How Medicaid Expansions and Future Community Health
Center Funding Will Shape Capacity to Meet the Nation’s Primary Care Needs: A 2014 Update Geiger
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Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative Policy Research Brief # 37, June
18, 2014. [PR]
Miller V, Ku L. The Impact of Government Transfer Programs on State and Regional Personal Incomes,
Department of Health Policy Issue Brief, April 30, 2014.
Ku L. Strengthening Immigrants’ Health Access: Current Opportunities. GW Department of Health
Policy Issue Brief, Dec. 13, 2013. http://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/sphhs_policy_briefs/29/
Ku L Zur, J. Jones E, Shin P, Rosenbaum S. How Medicaid Expansions and Future Community Health
Center Funding Will Shape Capacity to Meet the Nation’s Primary Care Needs Geiger Gibson /
RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative Policy Research Brief # 34, Nov. 18. 2013
Paradise J, Rosenbaum S, Shin P, Sharac J, Alvarez C, Zur J, Ku L. Providing outreach and enrollment
assistance: lessons learned from community health centers in Massachusetts. The Henry J. Kaiser Family
Foundation. September 24, 2013. Available at: http://kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/providing-
outreach-and-enrollment-assistance-lessons-learned-from-community-health-centers-in-massachusetts/
Ku L, Steinmetz E. Bridging the Gap: Continuity and Quality of Coverage in Medicaid, Washington DC:
Association of Community Affiliated Plans. Sept. 2013. [PR]
Ku L. The Bipartisan Senate Immigration Bill: Implications for Health Coverage and Health Access, GW
Department of Health Policy, Aug. 8, 2013
Ku L. The Senate Immigration Bill’s Impact on Health Care, blog posted at www.cmwf.org, Aug. 8,
2013. [PR]
Ku L. Comprehensive Immigration Reform and Health Care: CBO’s Analysis of S. 744, Dept of Health
Policy report, June 20, 2013. Also posted on HealthReformGPS.org.
Ku L. Explaining Recent Changes in CBO Projections of Health Insurance Coverage and Costs under the
Affordable Care Act, Implementation Brief posted on www.HealthReformGPS.org, June 5, 2013.
Ku L. Medicaid Expansions Using Private Plans: The Role of Premium Assistance and Cost-Sharing,
commentary in www.HealthReformGPS.org April 2013.
http://www.healthreformgps.org/resources/medicaid-expansions-using-private-plans-the-role-of-
premium-assistance-and-cost-sharing-2/
Ku L, Bruen B. Poor Immigrants Use Public Benefits At a Lower Rate than Poor Native-Born Citizens,
Economic Development Bulletin No. 17, Washington, DC: Cato Institute. March 4, 2013
http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/edb17.pdf [PR]
Brown C, Motamedi R, Stottlemeyer C, Bruen B, Ku L. Economic and Employment Effects of
Expanding Medicaid in Iowa, Regional Economic Models, Inc. and George Washington University.
Prepared for Iowa Hospital Association. Mar. 2013.
http://blog.iowahospital.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/IA-Medicaid-Expansion-Econ-Full-Report.pdf
Brown C, Motamedi R, Stottlemeyer C, Bruen B, Ku L. Economic and Employment Effects of
Expanding Medicaid in Arizona, Regional Economic Models, Inc. and George Washington University.
Prepared for Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association. Feb. 2013.
http://www.azhha.org/member and media resources/documents/ArizonaMedicaidExpansionReportREM
I2-28-13 000.pdf
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Brown C, Motamedi R, Stottlemeyer C, Bruen B, Ku L. Economic and Employment Effects of
Expanding Medicaid in Arkansas, Regional Economic Models, Inc. and George Washington University.
Prepared for Arkansas Hospital Association. Feb. 2013.
http://www.arkhospitals.org/Misc.%20Files/ReportBriefAppendix.pdf
Brown, C., Motamedi, R., Stottlemeyer, C., Bruen B and Ku L. Economic and Employment Effects of
Expanding Medicaid in Kansas, Regional Economic Models, Inc. and George Washington University.
Prepared for Kansas Hospital Association. Feb. 2013.
http://m.kha-net.org/communications/mediareleases/102615.aspx
Ku L, Bruen B. The Use of Public Assistance Benefits by Citizens and Non-citizen Immigrants in the
United States. Working Paper, Cato Institute, Feb. 2013. [PR]
Ku L, Jewers M. Health Care for Immigrants: Policies and Current Issues. Migration Policy Institute,
June 2013. www.migrationpolicy.org [PR]
Ku L, Bruen B, and Steinmetz E. Task 9: Medicaid DSH Simulation: Final Report to the Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Jan. 2013. [PR]
Ku L, Bruen B, Steinmetz E Beeson T. Task 7: Medicaid DSH Analytic Report to the Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Oct. 2012. [PR]
Ku L Cartwright-Smith L, Sharac J, Steinmetz E, Lewis J, Shin P. Deteriorating Access to Women's
Health Services in Texas: Potential Effects of the Women's Health Program Affiliate Rule, Geiger
Gibson/RCHN CHF Research Collaborative Brief, Issue No. 31. October 11, 2012
Ku L, Regenstein M, Shin P, Mead H, Levy A, Buchanan K, Byrne, F.. Coordinating and Integrating
Care for Safety Net Patients: Lessons from Six Communities. George Washington University Dept. of
Health Policy, May 21, 2012.
Ku L, Levy A, Bruen B. The Potential Primary Care Crisis in Texas: A County-Based Analysis Report
for Methodist Healthcare Ministries, April 2012.
Ku L, Cunningham M, Goetz-Goldberg D., Darnell J, Hiller M.. Quality Incentives for Federally
Qualified Health Centers, Rural Health Clinics and Free Clinics: A Report To Congress, report prepared
for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for submission to Congress, January 23, 2012. [PR]
Ku L. Saving Money: The Massachusetts Medicaid Tobacco Cessation Benefit: A Policy Paper.
Partnership for Prevention. Jan. 2012.
http://www.prevent.org//data/images/roi%20policy%20paper a.pdf
Ku L, Levy A, Lantz P, Pierre-Matthieu R. Options for CDC’s Cancer Screening Programs: Implications
of the Affordable Care Act. Report to the American Cancer Society and Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, Nov. 15, 2011. [PR]
Ku L, Regenstein M., Shin P, Mead H, Levy A, Buchanan K, Byrne F. Coordinating and Integrating Care
for Safety Net Patients: Lessons from Six Communities, Draft Report to the Commonwealth Fund, Sept.
2011. [PR]
Ku L, Regenstein M., Shin P, Bruen B, Byrne FR. Improving the Integration and Coordination of Safety
Net Health Providers Under Health Reform: Key Issues, Commonwealth Fund Pub 1552, Oct. 2011.
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Posted at http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/Issue%20Brief/2011/Oct/
1552_Ku_promoting_integration_safetynet_providers_under_reform_ib.pdf [PR]
Ku L, Shin P, Jones E, Bruen B. Transforming Community Health Centers into Patient-Centered Medical
Homes: The Role of Payment Reform, Report to the Commonwealth Fund, Sept. 28, 2011. Posted at
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Publications/Fund-Reports/2011/Sep/Transforming-Community-
Health-Centers.aspx. [PR]
Ku L, Ferguson C. Medicaid Works: A Review of How Public Insurance Protects the Health and
Finances of Low-Income Families and Individuals. First Focus and George Washington Univ. Dept. of
Health Policy, June 2011.
Ku L. Medicaid in the Bull’s Eye.: Blog posted at Health Affairs blog website. April 15, 2011.
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2011/04/15/medicaid-in-the-bulls-eye.
Rosenbaum S, Shin P, Ku L. Who Are the Health Center Patients Who Risk Losing Care Under the
House of Representatives Proposed FY 2011 Spending Reductions?. Issue No. 20. Geiger Gibson/RCHN
Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative Feb 24, 2011.
Ku L, Richard P, Dor A, Tan E, Shin P, Rosenbaum S. Strengthening Primary Care to Bend the Cost
Curve: The Expansion of Community Health Centers Through Health Reform, Brief No. 19. Geiger
Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, June 30, 2010.
Ku L, Shin P, Bruen B. Can Health Care Investments Stimulate the Economy?. Blog posted at Health
Affairs blog website, March 16, 2010.
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/03/16/can-health-care-investments-stimulate-the-economy/
Shin P, Bruen B, Jones E, Ku L, Rosenbaum S. The Economic Stimulus: Gauging the Early Effects of
ARRA Funding on Health Centers and Medically Underserved Populations and Communities, Brief No.
17. Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, Feb. 2010.
Shin P, Bruen B, Ku L, Mead KH, Regenstein M, Rosenbaum S, Buchanan K, Smith K. The
Early Impact of ARRA on Community Health Centers: Analysis of HCQR2. Report to Health Resources
and Services Administration, Rockville, MD. February 2010.
Ku L, Rosenbaum S, Shin P. Using Primary Care to Bend the Cost Curve: The Potential Impact of
Health Center Expansion in Senate Reforms. Brief No. 16. Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health
Foundation Research Collaborative, Oct 14, 2009.
Shin P, Ku L, Mauery R, Finnegan B, Rosenbaum S. Estimating the Economic Gains for States as a
Result of Medicaid Coverage Expansions for Adults, Brief No. 15. Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community
Health Foundation Research Collaborative, Oct 7, 2009.
Ku L, Richard P, Dor A, Tan E, Shin P, Rosenbaum S. Using Primary Care to Bend the Curve:
Estimating the Impact of a Health Center Expansion on Health Care Costs. Brief No. 14. Geiger
Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, Sep 1, 2009.
Ku L. Do Medicaid and CHIP Measure Errors Correctly?. Dept. of Health Policy, George Washington
Univ. Aug. 4, 2009.
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Ku L, Shin P, Rosenbaum S. Estimating the Effects of Health Reform on Health Centers’ Capacity to
Expand to New Medically Underserved Communities and Populations. Issue No. 11. Geiger
Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, Washington, DC. Jul 23, 2009.
Rosenbaum S, Jones E, Shin P and Ku L National Health Reform: How Will Medically Underserved
Communities Fare? Geiger Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative,
Washington, DC. July 9, 2009.
Ku L, MacTaggart P, Pervez F, Rosenbaum S. Improving Medicaid’s Continuity and Quality of Care,
Association for Community Affiliated Plans, July 2009. [PR]
Finnegan B, Ku L, Shin P, Rosenbaum S. Boosting Health Information Technology in Medicaid: The
Potential Effect of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Geiger Gibson / RCHN Community
Health Foundation Research Collaborative, Washington, DC. July 7, 2009.
Ku L. Expanding Coverage for Low-income Americans: Medicaid or Health Insurance Exchanges? Blog
posted at Health Affairs blog website, June 23, 2009. http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2009/06/23/expanding-
coverage-for-low-income-americans-medicaid-of-health-insurance-exchanges/
Shin P Ku L, Jones E, Finnegan B, Rosenbaum S. Financing Community Health Centers
As Patient- And Community-Centered Medical Homes: A Primer, George Washington Univ., May 27,
2009. [PR]
Ku L, Jones E, Finnegan B, Shin P, Rosenbaum S. Community Health Centers in the Midst of
Massachusetts’ Health Reform: How Is the Primary Care Safety Net Faring? Kaiser Commission on
Medicaid and the Uninsured and Geiger Gibson Community Health Program. March 2009. [PR]
Ku L. Restoring Medicaid and SCHIP Coverage to Legal Immigrant Children and Pregnant Women:
Implications for Community Health and Health Care for Tomorrow’s Citizens, Geiger Gibson/RCHN
Community Health Foundation Research Brief #7, Jan. 13, 2009. https://www.rchnfoundation.org/wp-
content/uploads/2013/02/GG-RCHN_No7.pdf
Ku L, Feiden K. Examining the Health Consequences of the 2008-09 Recession, Rapid Public Health
Policy Response Project, GW School of Public Health and Health Services, January 2009.
Ku L. The Dial and the Dashboard: The Child Well-Being Index and Public Policy, prepared for the
Foundation for Child Development, Jan. 2009.
Jones E, Ku L, Lippi J, Whittington R, Rosenbaum S. Designation of Medically Underserved and Health
Professional Shortage Areas: Analysis of the Public Comments on the Withdrawn Proposed Regulation.
Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Brief #5. September 2008.
Shin P, Ku L, Jones E, Rosenbaum S. Grantee-Level Estimates Show that 31 Percent of All Health
Centers would Fail to Meet Tier Two Status under HRSA’s Proposed MUA/MUP/HPSA Designation
Regulations. Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Brief #3. May 2008.
Shin P, Ku L, Jones E, Rosenbaum S. Analysis of the Proposed Rule on Designation of Medically
Underserved Populations and Health Professional Shortage Areas, (report and highlights) Geiger
Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, Department of Health Policy, The
George Washington University, revised May 1, 2008.
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Ku L, Lindblom E. (authors not named) Expanding Children’s Health Insurance and Raising Federal
Tobacco Taxes Helps Low-Income Families, Joint Paper of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Oct. 16, 2007.
Ku L. ’Crowd-Out’ Is Not the Same as Voluntarily Dropping Private Health Insurance for Public
Program Coverage, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Sept. 27, 2007
Greenstein R, Ku L (authors not named) Charge That Bipartisan SCHIP Compromise Bill Aids
Undocumented Immigrants Is False, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Sept. 25, 2007.
Ku L. Collateral Damage: Children Can Lose Coverage When Their Parents Lose Health Insurance,
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Sept. 17, 2007.
Ku L (author not named), More Americans, Including More Children, Now Lack Health Insurance,
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Aug. 31, 2007.
Ku L, New Research Shows Simplifying Medicaid Can Reduce Children's Hospitalizations, Center on
Budget and Policy Priorities, June 11, 2007.
Ku L, Comparing Public and Private Health Insurance for Children, Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities, May 11, 2007.
Ku L, Reducing Disparities in Health Coverage for Legal Immigrant Children and Pregnant Women,
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, April 20, 2007.
Ku L, Census Revises Estimates of the Number of Uninsured People, Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities, April 5, 2007.
Ku L, Schneider A, Solomon J, The Administration Again Proposes to Shift Federal Medicaid Costs to
States, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Feb.14, 2007.
Ku L. Medicaid Costs Are Growing More Slowly Than Costs For Medicare or Private Insurance, Center
on Budget and Policy Priorities, Nov. 13, 2006.
Ku L, Broaddus M. Coverage of Parents Helps Children, Too, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities,
Oct. 20, 2006.
Ku L Paying for Language Services in Medicare: Preliminary Options & Recommendations, National
Health Law Program and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Oct. 2006.
(www.healthlaw.org/library.cfm?fa=detail&id=118637&appView=folder)
Ku L, Broaddus M. Is Medicaid Responsible for the Erosion of Employer-Based Health Coverage?,
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Sept. 22, 2006.
Greenstein, R., Ku L and Dean, S. Survey Indicates House Bill Could Deny Voting Rights To Millions Of
U.S. Citizens, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Sept. 22, 2006.
Ku L, Cohen Ross D, Broaddus M. Documenting Citizenship and Identity Using Data Matches: A
Promising Strategy for State Medicaid Programs, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Sept. 1, 2006.
Ku L. Why Immigrants Lack Adequate Access to Health Care and Health Insurance, Migration
Information Source, Migration Policy Institute, Sept. 2006.
[PR](www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=417)
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Kogan R, Ku L, et al. Budget Process Bill Would Result in Deep Cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, Center
on Budget and Policy Priorities, Aug. 9, 2006.
Ku L. Revised Medicaid Documentation Requirement Jeopardizes Coverage for 1 To 2 Million Citizens,
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, July 13, 2006.
Ku L. Using Information Technology to Document Citizenship in Medicaid, Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities, June 20, 2006.
Ku L. The Slowdown in Medicaid Expenditure Growth, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, March
13, 2006.
Ku L, Broaddus M. New Requirement For Birth Certificates or Passports Could Threaten Medicaid
Coverage For Vulnerable Beneficiaries: A State-By-State Analysis, Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities, Revised Feb. 17, 2006.
Ku L Cohen Ross D. Broaddus M. Survey Indicates Deficit Reduction Act Jeopardizes Medicaid
Coverage for 3 to 5 Million U.S. Citizens, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Revised Feb. 17, 2006.
Schneider A, Ku L, et al. Administration’s Medicaid Proposals Would Shift Federal Costs to States,
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Feb. 14, 2006.
Ku L, Cohen Ross D. New Medicaid Requirement Is Unnecessary and Could Impede Citizens' Coverage,
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Revised Jan. 4, 2006.
Wachino V, Ku L, et al. Medicaid Provisions of House Reconciliation Bill Both Harmful and
Unnecessary Senate Bill Achieves Larger Savings Without Reducing Access to Care, Center on Budget
and Policy Priorities, Dec. 9, 2005
Ku L, Wachino V. Greenstein R. The House Reconciliation Bill’s Provisions On Medicaid Co-Payments
and Premiums: Are They Mild or Harsh? Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Nov. 22, 2005.
Wachino V, Ku L , et al. An Analysis of The National Governors Association’s Proposals For Short-Run
Medicaid Reform Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Oct. 14, 2005.
Ku L and Wachino V. Don't Shift Medicaid's Costs onto Those Who Can Least Afford Them The Hill,
July 20, 2005.
Ku L. Medicaid: Improving Health, Saving Lives, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, July 19, 2005.
Ku L. New Research Sheds Light on Risks from Increasing Medicaid Cost-Sharing and Reducing
Medicaid Benefits, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, July 18, 2005.
Ku L, Wachino V. Medicaid Commission Named By Secretary Leavitt Lacks Balance, Center on Budget
and Policy Priorities, July 10, 2005
Ku L, Wachino V. Assessing The National Governors Association's Proposals To Allow Increases In
Cost-Sharing Charges To Medicaid Beneficiaries, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, July 7, 2005.
Ku L, Wachino.V. The Effect Of Increased Cost-Sharing In Medicaid: A Summary Of Research
Findings, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Revised, July 7, 2005.
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Ku L, Broaddus M. Out-Of-Pocket Medical Expenses For Medicaid Beneficiaries Are Substantial And
Growing, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, May 31, 2005.
Ku L, Solomon, J. Is Missouri's Medicaid Program Out-of-Step and Inefficient?, Center on Budget and
Policy Priorities, April 4, 2005.
Wachino V, Schneider A, Ku L. Medicaid Budget Proposals Would Shift Costs To States And Be Likely
To Cause Reductions In Health Coverage: Administration’s Proposal Also Implies Cap On Federal
Funding, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Feb. 18, 2005
Ku L, Broaddus M, Wachino, V.. Medicaid and SCHIP Protected Insurance Coverage for Millions of
Low-Income Americans, Jan. 31, 2005
Ku L and Wachino V. The Potential Impact of Eliminating TennCare and Reverting to Medicaid: A
Preliminary Analysis, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Nov. 15, 2004.
Ku L, Deschamps E, Hilman J. The Effects of Copayments on the Use of Medical Services and
Prescription Drugs in Utah’s Medicaid Program, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Nov. 2, 2004.
Ku L. Will the New TennCare Cutbacks Help Tennessee’s Economy? Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities, July 8, 2004.
Ku L, Nimalendran S. Losing Out: States Are Cutting 1.2 to 1.6 Million Low-Income People from
Medicaid, SCHIP and Other State Health Insurance Programs, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities,
Dec. 22, 2003.
Ku L, Broaddus M. Funding Health Coverage For Low-Income Children In Washington,
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Nov. 10, 2003.
Ku L, Report Documents Growing Disparities in Health Care Coverage Between Immigrant and Citizen
Children as Congress Debates Immigrant Care Legislation, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Oct.
14, 2003
Ku L. CDC Data Show Medicaid and SCHIP Played a Critical Counter-Cyclical Role in Strengthening
Health Insurance Coverage during the Economic Downturn, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Rev.
Oct. 8, 2003.
Ku L. How Many Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries In Each State Would Be Denied The Medicare
Prescription Drug Benefit Under The Senate Drug Bill? Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, July 31,
2003.
Ku L. State Fiscal Relief Provides An Opportunity To Safeguard Medicaid Budgets, Center on Budget
and Policy Priorities, June 4, 2003
Ku L, Charging the Poor More For Health Care: Cost-Sharing In Medicaid, Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities, May 7, 2003.
Ku L, Fremstad S, Broaddus M. Noncitizens' Use Of Public Benefits Has Declined Since 1996, Center on
Budget and Policy Priorities, April 14, 2003.
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Nathanson M, Ku L. Proposed State Medicaid Cuts Would Jeopardize Health Insurance Coverage For 1.7
Million People: An Update, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Mar. 21, 2003.
Ku L, Shift In Costs From Medicare To Medicaid Is A Principal Reason For Rising State Medicaid
Expenditures, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, March 3, 2003.
Ku L, The Medicaid-Medicare Link: State Medicaid Programs Are Shouldering A Greater Share of The
Costs Of Care For Seniors And People With Disabilities, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Feb. 25,
2003.
Ku L, Broaddus M. Why Are States' Medicaid Expenditures Rising? Jan. 13, 2003.
Cohen-Ross D, Ku L. Quarterly Status Reporting Could Jeopardize The Health Coverage Of Hundreds Of
Thousands Of Eligible Low-Income Californians, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Revised Dec.
23, 2002
Ku L, et al., Proposed State Medicaid Cuts Would Jeopardize Health Insurance Coverage for One Million
People, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Dec. 23, 2002.
Ku L, Cohen-Ross D. Staying Covered: The Importance of Retaining Health Insurance Coverage for
Low-income Families, Commonwealth Fund, Dec. 2002. (One of the most frequently downloaded
Commonwealth Fund reports in 2006.) [PR]
Ku L, New CDC Data Show the Importance of Sustaining Medicaid and SCHIP Coverage as Private
Health Insurance Erodes in 2002, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Revised Oct. 8, 2002.
Ku L, Cohen-Ross D, Nathanson M. State Medicaid Cutbacks and the Federal Role In Providing Fiscal
Relief to States, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Revised. Aug. 8, 2002
Ku L, Park E., Improving Transitional Medicaid to Promote Work and Strengthen Health Insurance
Coverage, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, April 29, 2002.
Capps R, Ku L, et al. How Are Immigrants Faring After Welfare Reform? Preliminary Evidence from
Los Angeles County and New York City, Report to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and
Evaluation, Dept. of Health and Human Services, March 2002. Available at
http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/immigrants-faring02/index.htm. [PR]
Broaddus M, et al. Expanding Family Coverage: States' Medicaid Eligibility Policies for Working
Families in the Year 2000, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Revised Feb. 2002.
Ku L, Park E, Administration's Regulation to Reduce Medicaid Upper Payment Limit Would Further
Worsen State Budget Crises, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Dec. 11, 2001.
Ku L, Park E. Federal Aid to State Medicaid Programs Is Falling While the Economy Weakens, Center on
Budget and Policy Priorities, Oct. 6, 2001.
Ku L, Rothbaum E. Many States Are Considering Medicaid Cutbacks in the Midst of the Economic
Downturn, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, October 26, 2001.
Park E, Ku L, Health Care Provisions of House Ways And Means Committee Stimulus Package Offer
Little Help for the Health Insurance Needs of Unemployed Workers, Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities, Oct. 19, 2001.
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Park E, Ku L, Temporary Medicaid Improvements As Part of a Stimulus Package, Center on Budget and
Policy Priorities, Oct. 9, 2001.
Ku L, Counting the Uninsured: A Guide for the Perplexed, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Sept.
21, 2001
Park E, Ku L. Administration Medicaid and SCHIP Waiver Policy Encourages States to Scale Back
Benefits Significantly and Increase Cost-Sharing for Low-Income Beneficiaries, Center on Budget and
Policy Priorities, August 15, 2001.
Ku L, Guyer J. Medicaid Spending: Rising Again But Not to Crisis Levels, Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities, April 20, 2001.
Broaddus M, Ku L. Nearly 95 Percent of Low-Income Uninsured Children Now Are Eligible for
Medicaid or SCHIP, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Dec. 6, 2000.
12/6/00
Ku L, Freilich A., Caring for Immigrants: Health Care Safety Nets in Los Angeles, New York, Miami and
Houston, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, Feb. 2001.
Holahan J, Ku L, Pohl M.. Is Immigration Responsible for the Growth in the Number of Uninsured
People? Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, March 2001.
Ku L, Blaney S. Health Coverage for Legal Immigrant Children: New Census Data Highlight Importance
of Restoring Medicaid and SCHIP Coverage, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Revised. Oct. 10,
2000.
Ormond B, Ku L and Bruen B. Engine of Change or One Force among Many? Section 1115
Demonstration Projects and Trends in Medicaid Expenditures (Baltimore, MD: Health Care Financing
Administration, February 2001).
Ku L, Limiting Abuses of Medicaid Financing: HCFA’s Plan to Regulate the Medicaid Upper Payment
Limit, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Sept. 27, 2000.
Ku L, Broaddus M. The Importance of Family-Based Insurance Expansions: New Research on the Effects
of State Health Reforms, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, September 5, 2000.
Ku L, Matani S. Immigrants’ Access to Health Care and Insurance on the Cusp of Welfare Reform,
Assessing the New Federalism Discussion Paper 00-03, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, June 2000.
Ku L, Garrett B. How Welfare Reform and Economic Factors Affected Medicaid Participation: 1984-96,
Assessing the New Federalism Discussion Paper 00-01, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, February
2000.
Ku L, Ellwood MR, Hoag S, Ormond B, Wooldridge J. The Evolution of Medicaid Managed Care
Systems and Eligibility Expansions in Section 1115 Projects. Final report to the Health Care Financing
Administration, from the Urban Institute and Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., May 2000. [PR]
Coughlin T, Ku L, Kim, J., Reforming the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Program in the 1990s,
Assessing the New Federalism, The Urban Institute, Discussion Paper 99-14, (joint release with
Commonwealth Fund), 1999. [PR]
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Ku L, Bruen B. The Continuing Decline in Medicaid Coverage, Assessing the New Federalism Brief A-
37, The Urban Institute, December 1999.
Ku L, Ullman F, Almeida R, What Counts? Determining Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility for Children,
Assessing the New Federalism Discussion Paper 99-05, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, 1999.
Ku L, Hoag S. Medicaid Managed Care and the Marketplace: State Health Reforms in Hawaii,
Oklahoma, Rhode Island and Tennessee, Report to the Health Care Financing Administration from the
Urban Institute and Mathematica Policy Research, February 1998.
Ku L, Kessler B. The Number and Cost of Immigrants on Medicaid: National and State Estimates,
Report to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation from the Urban Institute,
December 1997. [PR]
Ku L, Berkowitz, A., Ullman F, Regenstein M. Health Policy for Low-Income People in Mississippi,
Assessing the New Federalism, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, December 1997. [PR]
Nichols L, Ku L, Norton S, Wall S. Health Policy for Low-Income People in Washington Assessing the
New Federalism, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, November 1997. [PR]
Ku L, Wall S. The Implementation of Oklahoma's Medicaid Reform Program: SoonerCare, Report to the
Health Care Financing Administration from the Urban Institute and Mathematica Policy Research,
October 1997. [PR]
Ku L, Coughlin T, The Use of Sliding Scale Premiums in Subsidized Insurance Programs, Urban Institute
Working Paper, March 1997. [PR]
Ku L, Coughlin T, How the New Welfare Reform Law Affects Medicaid, Assessing New Federalism
Policy Brief No. A-7, the Urban Institute, February 1997. [PR]
Wooldridge J., Ku L, Coughlin T, Dubay L, Ellwood MR, Rajan S, Hoag S., Reforming State Medicaid
Programs: First Year Implementation Experiences from Three States, Mathematica Policy Research,
January 1997. [PR]
Wooldridge J, Ku L, Coughlin T, Dubay L, Ellwood MR, Rajan S, Hoag S. Implementing State Health
Care Reform: What Have We Learned from the First Year? The First Annual Report of the Evaluation of
Health Reform in Five States. Report to the Health Care Financing Administration, from Mathematica
Policy Research Inc. and the Urban Institute, December 1996. [PR]
Ku L, Wade M, Dodds S. How Cost-Reimbursement Affected Patients, Health Centers and Medicaid:
The Federally Qualified Health Center Program, Report to the Health Care Financing Administration,
from the Urban Institute and Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., August 1996.
Long S, Ciemnecki A, Coughlin T, Kenney G, Ku L, Mitchell J, Rajan S, Rosenbach M, Thornton C,
Wade M, Zuckerman S. Designing an Evaluation of the Medicaid Health Reform Demonstrations, Report
to the Health Care Financing Administration, from the Urban Institute, Center for Health Economics
Research and Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Feb. 1996.
Holahan J, Coughlin T, Liu K, Ku L, Kuntz C, Wade M, Wall S. Cutting Medicaid Spending in
Response to Budget Caps, Report to the Kaiser Commission on the Future of Medicaid, Sept. 1995. [PR]
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Wade M, Ku L, Dodds S. (1995). The Impact of the Medicaid FQHC Program on Center Users, FQHCs
and the Medicaid Program, Urban Institute Working Paper 06428-03, May 1995.
Ku L, Coughlin T. Medicaid Disproportionate Share and Related Programs: A Fiscal Dilemma for the
States and the Federal Government, Report to the Kaiser Commission on the Future of Medicaid from the
Urban Institute, December 1994.
Holahan J, Coughlin T, Ku L, Lipson D, Rajan S. Increasing Insurance Coverage through Medicaid
Waiver Programs, Urban Institute Working Paper 06433-005-01, November 1994.
Rajan S, Coughlin T, Ku L, Holahan J, Lipson, D. Increasing Insurance Coverage through Medicaid
Waiver Programs: Case Studies, Urban Institute Working Paper 06433-005-02, November 1994.
Ku L, Publicly Supported Family Planning in the United States: Financing of Family Planning Services.
Report to the Kaiser Family Foundation, The Urban Institute, June 1993.
Holahan J, Coughlin T, Ku L, Heslam D, Winterbottom C, The States' Response to Medicaid Financing
Crisis: Case Studies Report, Health Policy Center Report 6272-02, The Urban Institute, December 1992
(revised).
Sonenstein F, Ku L, Juffras J, Cohen B. Promising Prevention Programs for Children, Report to the
United Way of America, The Urban Institute, March 1991.
Ellwood MR, Ku L. Summary and Policy Recommendations: Studies on Health Care Services to
Severely Disabled Children, Report Submitted to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and
Evaluation, DHHS, Lexington, MA: SysteMetrics/ McGraw-Hill, August 1990.
Ku L, Who's Paying the Big Bills?: Very High Cost Pediatric Hospitalizations in California in 1987,
Report to Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, DHHS, Lexington, MA:
SysteMetrics/McGraw-Hill, August 1990.
Sonenstein F, Ku L, Adams EK, Orloff T. Potential Research Strategies to Evaluate the Effect of
Transitional Medicaid and Child Care Benefits, Report to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for
Planning and Evaluation, DHHS, Lexington, MA: SysteMetrics/McGraw-Hill, May 1990.
HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health
Lindberg L, Ku L, Sonenstein F. Minor Mothers and Adult Fathers: Age Differences Between Teen
Mothers and Their Partners, Urban Institute Working Paper, 1996.
Sonenstein FL., Pleck JH, Ku L. Why Young Men Don't Use Condoms: Factors Related to Consistency
of Utilization, Sexuality and American Policy Seminar Series, Kaiser Family Foundation and American
Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C., May 1995.
Ku L and the NSAM Study Team, Preliminary Results of the Pretest for the National Survey of
Adolescent Males, Report to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute for
Child Health and Human Development, November 1994.
Ku L, Levine G, Sonenstein F, State STD Reporting Rules and Research Surveys, Report to the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, September 1994.
Sonenstein F, Pleck J, Ku L, The Male Side of the Equation, TEC Networks, 33:3-4, June 1992.
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Sonenstein F, Pleck J, Ku L, Influences on Adolescent Male Premarital Sexual Behavior, Final Report to
the Office of Population Affairs, DHHS from Urban Institute, May 1992.
Sonenstein F, Pleck J, Ku L, Sex and Contraception Among Adolescent Males, TEC Networks, 29:1-3,
June 1991.
Sonenstein F, Pleck J, Calhoun C, Ku L, 1988 National Survey of Adolescent Males: A User's Guide to
the Machine Readable Files and Documentation, Data Set G6, Data Archives on Adolescent Pregnancy
and Pregnancy Prevention, Los Altos, CA: Sociometrics Corp, 1991.
Sonenstein F, Pleck J, Calhoun C, Ku L, Determinants of Contraceptive Use by Adolescent Males, Final
Report to the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, Urban Institute, February
1991.
Food and Nutrition Policy
Ku L, Debating WIC, The Public Interest, 135: 108-12, Spring 1999. [PR]
Ku L, Cohen B, Pindus N. Full Funding for WIC: A Policy Review, Washington, DC: Urban Institute
Press, 1994.
Ku L, Long S, Brayfield A. and others, Low-Income Children's Nutritional Needs and Participation in
USDA's Food Assistance Programs. Final Report to the Food and Nutrition Service, USDA from the
Urban Institute, September 1993.
Ku L, Institutional Participation in the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs, Final Report to
the Food and Nutrition Service, USDA from the Urban Institute, March 1993.
Ku L, Reported Meal Production Costs and Reimbursement Rates in the National School Lunch Program,
Draft Report to the Food and Nutrition Service, USDA from the Urban Institute, April 1992.
Ku L, Brayfield A, and others, Evaluation of Low-Income Children's Nutritional Needs and Participation
in USDA's Food Assistance Programs: Conceptual Assessment. Report to Food and Nutrition Service,
USDA from the Urban Institute, February 1992.
Ku L, McKearn M. Effects of the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) on
Displacement of Commercial Sales, (with the Economic Research Service and Mathematica Policy
Research), Report to Congress, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, August 1987.* [PR]
Ku L, Dalrymple R., Differences Between SIPP and Food and Nutrition Service Program Data on Child
Nutrition and WIC Program Participation, Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) Working
Papers, No. 8707, Bureau of the Census, May 1987.
Ku L, Nutritional Research Relating to Infant Feeding in the WIC Program, Report to the Assistant
Secretary for Food and Consumer Services, June 1986.*
Richman L, Hidelbaugh T, McMahon-Cox N, Ku L, Dayton CM, Goodrich N. Study of WIC Participant
and Program Characteristics, Report to Congress, Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
(with Ebon Research Systems and Abt Associates Inc.), April 1986. [PR]
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Ku L, Abbot J, Forchheimer M. The Feasibility, Costs and Impacts of a Universal School Lunch Program,
Draft Report to Congress, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, June 1985.
Puma M, Ku L, Economic Analysis of the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program, Report to
Congress, Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, May 1985.* [PR]
Ku L, Nichols A. Report on the Food Bank Demonstration Project, Report to Congress, Food and
Nutrition Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, April 1984.* [PR]
* These reports were issued as official Agency or Department reports with no listed authors. In
addition, Leighton Ku wrote numerous proposed and final regulations and legislative and budget
reports while on the staff of the Food and Nutrition Service. In many cases, these were published
in the Federal Register, Congressional Record and related Federal series.
Selected Presentations and Testimony
Ku L. Medicaid Expansion: a Potential Shot in the Arm for North Carolina’s Economy. Presentation to
Cone Health Foundation Advisory Board, June 9, 2021.
Ku L. Medicaid and Smoking: Still a Public Health Crisis. National webinar for Self-Made Health
Network (for CDC), May 25, 2021.
Ku L. Immigrants and Community Health Centers. Webinar for the Geiger Gibson./RCHN Community
Health Foundation series. March 1, 2021.
Ku L. Tracking Medicaid Tobacco Cessation Utilization. Presented to American Lung Association State
Affiliates. Dec. 14, 2020.
Ku L. 17
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Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference: Georgetown Law School, Migration Policy
Institute and Catholic Legal Immigration Network. The Two Pandemics: How COVID-19 and Systemic
Racism Affect Immigrants and Their Families. Sept. 22, 2020.
Ku L. Immigrant Health Court Declarations. Protecting Immigrant Families. Aug. 12, 2020.
Ku L. Webinar: Health Policy Responses to Covid-19. George Washington Univ. April 9, 2020.
Han X, Ku L. Enhancing Staffing in Rural Community Health Centers Can Improve Behavioral Health
Care. Health Affairs press briefing, National Press Club, Washington DC, Dec. 4, 2019
Ku, L. Testimony: Economic and Employment Benefits of Expanding Medicaid in North Carolina. Field
Hearing, North Carolina Assembly. Winston-Salem, NC. Aug. 16, 2019. Similar presentation at Field
Hearing, North Carolina Legislature, Raleigh, NC, Oct. 1, 2019.
Ku L. Current Threats to Medicaid. Dialogue on Diversity. Unidos US. Washington, DC. June 26,
2019.
Ku, L, Rosenbaum S, Keith K, Blumberg L, Sidhu A. Health Policy Goes to Court: Collaborations of
Law and Research. AcademyHealth Annual Research Conf. Washington, DC. June 2, 2019
Ku L, Brantley E, Pillai D. The Effects of SNAP Work Requirements in Reducing Participation and
Benefits. AcademyHealth Annual Research Conf. Washington, DC. June 4, 2019
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Brantley E, Pillai D, Ku L. Factors Affecting Enrollment in Public Programs. AcademyHealth Annual
Research Conf. Washington, DC. June 2, 2019
Ku, L. Immigrants and American Health Policy. Boston College. Global Migration Conference:
Inclusion and Exclusion. Boston MA April 12, 2019.
Ku, L. Medicaid Policy in the States. Scholars Strategy Network National Leadership Conference,
Washington DC. Jan. 18, 2019.
Ku, L. Health Insurance Coverage for DC Latinos. DC Latino Health Leadership Symposium.
Washington DC. Jan. 9, 2019.
Seiler N, Ku L. Medicaid’s Role in Addressing the Opioid Crisis. GW seminar, Nov. 16, 2017.
Ku L. Medicaid: Addressing Tobacco & Opioid Addictions. Presentation at Addressing Addiction:
Policy Prescriptions to Preventing Opiate Abuse and Tobacco Use. Health Policy Institute of Ohio,
Columbus, OH, Sept. 26, 2017.
Ku L. Economic and Employment Effects of the Better Care Reconciliation Act. Testimony to the
Maryland Legislative Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission, Maryland House of Delegates,
Annapolis, MD. Aug. 1, 2017. Similar presentation at REMI webinar, Aug. 2, 2017.
Ku L. Economic and Employment Effects of the American Health Care Act. Presentation at
AcademyHealth Annual Research Conference, New Orleans, June 25, 2017. Similar presentations at
Policy in the Trump Era: National, State, and Regional Economic Impacts Conference, Hall of States,
Washington, D.C. June 19, 2017 and at Medicaid Policy Conference, Council of State Governments,
Washington, DC, June 29, 2017.
Ku L. Repealing Obamacare: Effects on the Health Workforce. Presentation at AcademyHealth Annual
Research Conference, New Orleans, June 26, 2017.
Brantley E, Ku L. Promoting Tobacco Cessation: The Role of Medicaid and Other Policies. Poster at
AcademyHealth Annual Research Conference, New Orleans, June 26, 2017.
Ku L. The Future of Medicaid. Conference on Obamacare After Obama. Southern Illinois
Healthcare/Southern Illinois University School of Law. Springfield, IL, May 19, 2017.
Brantley E, Ku L. Linking Data to Uncover Medicaid's Role in Cessation. National Conference on
Tobacco or Health, Austin TX, March 23, 2107.
Ku L. The Future of Medicaid and the Safety Net. Health Policy Expert Series. Milken Institute School
of Public Health. March 21, 2017.
Ku L. Financial Consequences of ACA Repeal. Podcast, Feb. 15, 2017
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/interactives-and-data/multimedia/podcasts/new-directions-in-health-
care/the-impact-of-aca-repeal
Ku L. Repealing Health Reform: Economic and Employment Consequences for States. REMI Seminar,
Washington, DC. Jan. 27, 2016. Similar national webinar Feb. 1, 2017.
Ku L. Pay for Success Demonstrations of Supportive Housing for Chronically Homeless Individuals: The
Role of Medicaid. Association for Public Policy and Management Research Conference, Washington,
DC. Nov. 4, 2016.
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Ku L. Immigrants and Community Health Centers. Pennsylvania Association of Community Health
Centers, Lancaster PA. Oct. 12, 2016.
Ku L. Moving Medicaid Data Forward (discussant). Mathematica Policy Research, Washington, DC Oct.
11, 2016.
Ku L. Medicaid Can Do More to Help Smokers Quit, Michael Davis Lecture, University of Chicago,
Oct. 4, 2016. Similar seminar at Univ. of Maryland, Sept. 15, 2016.
Ku L, Borkowski L. Publish or Perish: Advice for Publishing for Peer-Reviewed Journals in Health
Policy. GW Department of Health Policy & Management seminar, Sept. 20, 2016.
Ku L . Family Planning, Health Reform and Potential Restrictions on Coverage or Access, presented at
Contraception Challenged: Putting Zubik v. Burwell in Context, sponsored by National Family Planning
and Reproductive Health Association meeting at Capitol Visitors Center, Washington, DC, June 7, 2016.
Ku L Russell T. et al. Debate on the Role of Public Programs in Care for the Poor. Benjamin Rush
Institute, Washington, DC, April 1, 2016.
Brantley E, Ku L. Improved Access and Coverage Under The ACA: Are Immigrants at the Table?,
presented at GW Research Day, March 30, 2016. (Won prize for best policy and practice research.)
Ku L. The Role of the Health Care Safety Net, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, March
17, 2016.
Ku L, Steinmetz E, Bysshe T. Medicaid Continuity of Coverage in an Era of Transition. Webinar for
Association of Community-Affiliated Plans, Nov. 2, 2015.
Ku L Bruen B, Steinmetz E, Bysshe T. Trends in Tobacco Cessation Among Medicaid Enrollees,
presented at AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Minneapolis, June 15, 2015.
Ku L. Using Economic Impact Analysis in Medicaid Advocacy, presented at AcademyHealth Annual
Research Meeting, Minneapolis, June 13, 2015.
Ku L. The Translation of Health Services Research into Policy Related to the Affordable Care Act,
Presented at American Association of Medical Colleges, March 20, 2015.
Ku L. Policy and Market Pressures on Safety Net Providers, National Health Policy Conference, Feb. 10,
2015.
Ku L. ‘Economic and Employment Costs of Not Expanding Medicaid in North Carolina, Cone Health
Foundation, Greensboro, NC, Jan. 9, 2015.
Ku L . Health Reform: How Did We Get Here, What the Heck Is Going On and What Next?
Keynote Address: Medical Librarians Association, Alexandria VA, Oct. 20, 2014.
Ku L. Health Reform and the Safety Net. Testimony before Maryland Community Health Resources
Commission. Annapolis, MD, Oct. 2, 2014.
Ku L. Some Key Issues in Health Reform. Presented at American Association for the Advancement of
Science Health Policy Affinity Group Meeting, Washington, DC July 24, 2014.
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Ku L, Curtis D. Barlow P. District of Columbia’s Health Benefits Exchange at the Launch of a State-
Based Exchange: Challenges and Lessons Learned Georgetown Law School Summer Session on Health
Reform, July 23, 2014.
Ku L. The Big Picture on Medicaid for State Legislators Presented at Council of State Governments.
Medicaid Workshop for Health Leaders, Washington, DC June 20, 2014.
Ku L, Frogner B, Steinmetz E, Pittman P. Many Paths to Primary Care: Flexible Staffing and
Productivity in Community Health Centers, Presented at Annual Research Conference AcademyHealth,
San Diego, CA, June 10, 2014.
Ku L, Zur J., Jones E, Shin, P, Rosenbaum S. How Medicaid Expansions and Post-ACA Funding Will
Affect Community Health Centers’ Capacity. Presented at Annual Research Conference AcademyHealth,
San Diego, CA, June 9, 2014.
Ku L. Critical Issues for Community Health Centers, Alliance for Health Reform briefing,
Commonwealth Fund, Washington, DC. May 16, 2014.
Ku L. Immigrants' Health Access: At the Nexus of Welfare, Health and Immigration Reform, Keynote
talk at Leadership Conference on Health Disparities, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA May 6, 2014.
Ku L. Wellness and the District of Columbia. District of Columbia Chamber of Commerce forum,
Washington, DC, March 11, 2014.
Ku L. Health Care for Immigrant Families: A National Overview. Congressional Health Justice Summit,
Univ. of New Mexico - Robert Wood Johnson Center for Health Policy, Albuquerque, NM, Sept. 7, 2013.
Ku L. Health Reform: Promoting Cancer Prevention and Care. Talk to DC Citywide Navigators
Network, Washington, DC, July 15, 2013.
Ku L. Analyzing Policies to Promote Prevention and Health Reform. Seminar at the Centers for Disease
Prevention and Promotion, Atlanta, GA. July 10, 2013.
Ku L. Medicaid: Key Issues for State Legislators. Council on State Governments, Medicaid Workshop
for Health Leaders, Washington, DC, June 22, 2013.
Ku L, Steinmetz E. Improving Medicaid’s Continuity of Care: An Update. Association of Community
Plans Congressional Briefing, May 10, 2013.
Ku L (with Brown C, Motamedi R, Stottlemeyer C, Bruen B) Economic and Employment Impacts of
Medicaid Expansions. REMI Monthly Policy Seminar, Washington, DC, April 24, 2013.
Ku L. Building Texas’ Primary Care Workforce, Legislative Briefing: Health Care Coverage Expansion
& Primary Care Access in Texas, Center on Public Priorities and Methodist Healthcare Ministries, Texas
Capitol, Austin, TX, Mar. 8, 2013
Ku L, Jewers M. Health Care for Immigrants: Policies and Issues in a New Year. Presentation to
Conference on After the Election: Policies Affecting Young Children of Immigrants, Migration Policy
Institute, Washington, DC, Jan. 17, 2013.
Ku L. Health Reform and the New Health Insurance Exchanges: Issues for Indiana Families, Indiana
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Family Impact Seminar at Indiana State Legislature, Nov. 19, 2012.
Ku L. Pediatric Preventive Medical and Dental Care: The Role of Insurance and Poverty,
AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Orlando, FL, June 24, 2012.
Ku L. A Medicaid Tobacco Cessation Benefit: Return on Investment, Webinar for Partnership for
Prevention and Action to Quit, Feb. 8, 2012.
Ku L. Safety Net Financing Issues, Webinar for National Workgroup on Integrating a Safety Net,
National Academy for State Health Policy, Feb. 6, 2012
Ku L. How Medicaid Helps Children: An Introduction. Briefing to Congressional Children’s Health
Caucus, Jan. 25, 2012
Ku L. Market Access Webinar: Provider Access: Coordinating Medicaid & Exchanges: Continuity of
Services & the Role of Safety Net Providers, Webinar for Center for Consumer Information and
Insurance Oversight, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Dec. 15, 2011.
Ku L. The Safety Net: An Evolving Landscape, Presented to Grantmakers in Health, Washington, DC.
Nov. 3, 2011. [Similar talks in Orlando, FL to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation, Feb. 17,
2012 and in Williamsburg, VA to Williamsburg Community Health Foundation Apr. 3, 2012 and to
Virginia Health Foundation, Nov. 13, 2012]
Ku L. Open Access Publishing. Presented at forum for GW Medical Center faculty and staff, Oct. 24,
2011.
Ku L, Levy A. Implications of Health Reform for CDC’s Cancer Screening Programs: Preliminary
Results, Presentation to National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program and Colorectal
Cancer Control Program Directors Meeting, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 21, 2011.
Ku L. Coordinating Medicaid & Exchanges: Continuity of Services & the Role of Safety Net Providers,
Presented to America’s Health Insurance Plans, Washington, DC. Sept. 16, 2011.
Ku L. The Potential Impact of Health Reform on CDC’s Cancer Screening Programs:
Preliminary Results, Presented to NBCCEDP Federal Advisory Committee Meeting, Atlanta, GA, Jun.
17, 2011. (Similar presentations to the American Cancer Society, Sept. 2011.)
Ku L. Crystal Balls and Safety Nets: What Happens After Health Reform? Presented at AcademyHealth,
Seattle, WA, June 2011.
Ku L. Strengthening Primary Care to Bend the Cost Curve: Using Research to Inform U.S. Policy,
International Community Health Center Conference, Toronto, Canada, June 2011
Ku L. Integrating/Coordinating Care for Safety Net Providers: Issues and Local Examples, International
Community Health Center Conference, Toronto, Canada, June 2011.
Ku L. Health Reform: Federal Implementation and More Unanswered Questions Presented at American
Society of Public Administration, Baltimore, MD, Mar. 14, 2011.
Ku L. Key Issues in the Confusing World of Health Reform, Presented to Industrial College of the
Armed Forces, National Defense University, Washington, DC, Feb. 25, 2011.
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Ku L. Reducing Disparities and Public Policy Conflicts, Institute of Medicine Workshop on Reducing
Disparities in Life Expectancy, Washington, DC, Feb. 24, 2011.
Ku L. Primary Care, Hospitalizations and Health Reform, American Enterprise Institute Workshop,
Washington, DC, Feb. 17, 2011.
Ku L. The Promise and Perils of Health Policy for Asians in the United States, Invited keynote talk at 4
th
International Asian Health and Wellbeing Conference, Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand, NZ, July 6,
2010. Similar talk at symposium sponsored by the New Zealand Office of Ethnic Affairs, Wellington,
NZ, July 8, 2010.
Ku L, Strengthening Primary Care to Bend the Cost Curve: The Expansion of Community Health Centers
Through Health Reform, Briefing for Senate and House staff and media, convened by Sen. Bernie
Sanders (VT), Russell Senate Office Building, June 30, 2010.
Ku L. Ready, Set, Plan, Implement. Executing Medicaid’s Expansion, Health Affairs Conference on
Health Reform, Washington, DC, June 8, 2010.
Ku L. Coordinating Care Among Safety Net Providers, Primary Care Forum, National Academy of State
Health Policy, Alexandria, VA, June 2, 2010.
Ku L. Title VI: The Role of Culturally Competent Communication in Reducing Ethnic and Racial Health
Care Disparities, National Minority AIDS Education and Training Center Spring Symposium, Howard
Univ. May 29, 2010.
Ku L. American Health Reform as Massive Incrementalism, American Association for Budget and
Program Analysis, Nov. 24, 2009.
Ku L. The Health Care Safety Net and Health Reform, National Academy of Public Administration,
Conference on Health Care for the Future, Nov. 22, 2009.
Ku L. The Health of Latino Children, National Council of La Raza Symposium on Latino Children and
Youth, Oct. 22, 2009.
Ku L. What the Obama Administration Will Mean for Child Health, AcademyHealth preconference
session on Child Health, Chicago, IL June 2009.
Ku L. Immigrants and health reform, 6
th
Annual Immigration and Law Conference, Georgetown Univ.
Law School, Migration Policy Institute and Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Washington, DC, June
24, 2009.
Ku L. From the Politics of No! to the Potential for Progress, invited keynote talk about immigrant policy
and research to Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO, April 1, 2009.
Ku L. Strengthening the Primary Care Safety Net, National Association of Community Health Centers,
Policy and Issues Conference, March 26, 2009.
Ku L. The Dial and the Dashboard: Assessing the Child Well-Being Index, Presentation to the Board of
the Foundation for Child Development, March 3, 2009.
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Ku L. Key Data Concerning Health Coverage for Legal Immigrant Children and Pregnant Women,
invited presentation to Senate staff, Jan. 13, 2009.
Ku L. Comparing the Obama and McCain Health Plans, George Washington Univ. Medical School
Alumni Conference, Sept. 27, 2008.
Ku L. The Future of Medicaid, Medicaid Congress, sponsored by Avalere Health and Health Affairs,
Washington, DC, June 5, 2008.
Ku L. A Brief Appreciation of Health Advocates: Progress Made, Some Setbacks, Challenges Ahead,
Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia Conference, Philadelphia, PA, May 14, 2008.
Ku L. Financing Health Care Reform in New Jersey: Making Down Payments on Reform, Rutgers-AARP
Conference, New Brunswick, NJ. Mar. 18, 2008
Ku L, Perez T, Lillie-Blanton M. Immigration and Health Care-What Are the Issues, Kaiser Family
Foundation Health Cast, webcast interview March 12, 2008.
Ku L. How Research Might Affect SCHIP Reauthorization, Child Health Services Research Meeting at
AcademyHealth, Orlando, FL, June 2, 2007.
Ku L. Immigrant Children and SCHIP Reauthorization, Capital Hill Briefing conducted by the Population
Resource Center, April 20, 2007.
Ku L. Health Policy and Think Tanks, Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellows, Institute of
Medicine, June 2006. Similar talk in other years.
Ku L. Medicaid Reform and Mental Health, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Annual Conference,
Austin, TX, June 20, 2005.
Ku L. Cost-sharing in Medicaid and SCHIP: Research and Issues, National Association of State Medicaid
Directors, Washington, DC, Nov. 18, 2004. Similar talk given to National Academy of State Health
Policy, St. Louis, MO, Aug. 2, 2004.
Ku L. Coverage of Poverty-Level Aged and Disabled in Mississippi’s Medicaid Program, Testimony to
Mississippi Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee, Aug. 24, 2004
Ku L. Medicaid Managed Care Issues, Testimony to Georgia House of Representatives Appropriations
Committee, March 2, 2004.
Ku L. Medi-Cal Budget Issues, Testimony to Joint Hearing of California Senate Budget and Health and
Human Services Committees, Feb. 26, 2003.
Ku L .New Opportunities to Improve Health Care Access and Coverage, American College of Emergency
Physicians, May 1, 2001.
Ku L,. Medicaid DSH and UPL: Perplexing Issues, National Association of Public Hospitals Health
Policy Fellows Conference, Washington, DC, Mar. 20, 2001.
Ku L, Insurance Coverage and Health Care Access for Immigrant Families, Testimony Before the U.S.
Senate Finance Committee, Washington, DC, March 13, 2001.
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Ku L. Increasing Health Insurance Coverage for Low-Income Families and Children, Insuring the
Uninsured Project Conference, Sacramento, CA, Feb. 13, 2001.
Ku L, Concerning the Healthy Families Program Parent Expansion Proposal, Testimony
Before a Joint Hearing of the California Senate Health and Human Services and Insurance Committees
and Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee # 3, Sacramento, CA, January 30, 2001.
Ku L, Insurance Trends and Strategies for Covering the Uninsured, National Health Law Program
Conference, Washington, DC, Dec. 3, 2000.
Ku L, Improving Health Care Access and Coverage: New Opportunities for States in 2001, Midwest
Leadership Conference, Council of State Governments, Minneapolis, MN, August 6, 2000.
Ku L, Health Care for Immigrants: Recent Trends and Policy Issues, Alliance for Health Reform,
Washington, DC, August 2, 2000. Similar talks in Miami at Florida Governor’s Health Care Summit and
in San Diego at California Program on Access to Care conference.
Ku L, Matani S, Immigrants’ Access to Health Care and Insurance on the Cusp of Welfare Reform,
presented at Association for Health Services Research Conference, Los Angeles, CA, June 25, 2000.
Ku L, Matani S. Immigrants and Health Care: Recent Trends and Issues, presented to the Association of
Maternal and Child Health Programs meeting, Washington, DC, March 7, 2000.
Ku L, Ellwood MR., Hoag S, Ormond B, Wooldridge J. Building a Newer Mousetrap: the Evolution of
Medicaid Managed Care Systems and Eligibility Expansions in Section 1115 Projects, presented at
American Public Health Association meeting, Chicago, IL, Nov. 10, 1999.
Ku L. Young Men’s Reproductive Health: Risk Behaviors and Medical Care@, presented at D.C.
Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy Meeting, Washington, DC, Oct. 19, 1999.
Ku L, Medicaid and Welfare Reform: Recent Data, presented at Getting Kids Covered Conference,
sponsored by National Institute for Health Care Management and Health Resources and Services
Administration, Washington, DC, Oct. 6, 1999.
Ku L, Garrett B. How Welfare Reform and Economic Factors Affected Medicaid Participation, presented
at Association for Health Services Research meeting, Chicago, IL, June 29, 1999.
Ku L. Recent Factors Affecting Young Men's Condom Use, presented to conference sponsored by
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and Advocates for Youth, Washington, DC, February
1999.
Medicaid, Welfare Reform and CHIP: The Growing Gulf of Eligibility Between Children and Adults,
presented to National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems, Washington, DC, and to
Generations United, Washington, DC, September 1998.
Ku L. Sliding Scale Premiums and Cost-Sharing: What the Research Shows presented at workshop on
CHIP: Implementing Effective Programs and Understanding Their Impacts, Agency for Health Care
Policy and Research User Liaison Program, Sanibel Island, FL, June 30, 1998.
Ku L, Sonenstein F, Boggess S, Pleck J. Understanding Changes in Teenage Men's Sexual Activity: 1979
to 1995, presented at 1998 Population Association of America Meetings, Chicago, IL, April 4, 1998.
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Ku L. Welfare Reform, Immigrants and Medicaid presented at Annual Meeting of the Association of
Maternal and Child Health Programs, Washington, DC, March 9, 1998. Similar talk presented at
Association for Health Services Research Meeting, Washington, DC, June 23, 1998.
Ku L. Medicaid Policy and Data Issues: An Overview presented to National Committee on Vital and
Health Statistics, DHHS, September 29, 1997.
Ku L. How Welfare Reform Will Affect Medicaid Coverage presented to National Ryan White Title IV
Program Conference, Washington, DC, November 8, 1996.
Ku L, Rajan S, Wooldridge J, Ellwood MR, Coughlin T, Dubay L. Using Section 1115 Demonstration
Projects to Expand Medicaid Managed Care in Tennessee, Hawaii and Rhode Island, presented at
Association of Public Policy and Management, Pittsburgh, Nov. 1, 1996.
Ku L. The Federal-State Partnership in Medicaid: Is Divorce Inevitable or Would Therapy Be Enough?
presented to Council of State Governments Conference on Managing the New Fiscal Federalism,
Lexington, KY, May 10, 1996.
Ku L. The Male Role in the Prevention of Teen Pregnancy, presented to the Human Services Committee,
National Council of State Legislatures, Washington, DC, May 9, 1996
Ku L. Implications of Converting Medicaid to a Block Grant with Budget Caps, presented to American
Medical Association State Legislation Meeting, Aventura, FL, Jan. 1996 and to the American Psychiatric
Association Public Policy Institute, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, March 1996.
Ku L. Medicaid: Program Under Reconstruction, presented at Speaker's Forum at New York City
Council, September 12, 1995.
Ku L. State Health Reform Through Medicaid Section 1115 Waivers, presented at Pew Health Policy
Conference, Chicago, IL, June 3, 1995.
Ku L. Setting Premiums for Participants in Subsidized Insurance Programs, presented at Conference on
the Federal-State Partnership for State Health Reform, sponsored by HCFA, the National Academy of
State Health Policy and RTI, March 15, 1995.
Ku L. Medicaid Disproportionate Share and Related Programs: A Fiscal Dilemma for the Federal
Government and the States, with Teresa Coughlin, presented to the Kaiser Commission on the Future of
Medicaid, November 13, 1994.
Ku L. Full Funding for WIC: A Policy Review, with Barbara Cohen and Nancy Pindus, presented at
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC, in a panel hosted by the Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities, Bread for the World, the Food Research and Action Center and the National Association of
WIC Directors, May 5, 1994.
Ku L. The Financing of Family Planning Services in the U.S., presented at the Institute of Medicine,
National Academy of Sciences on February 15, 1994 and at the American Public Health Association
meeting, San Francisco, CA, October 25, 1993.
Ku L. Using SUDAAN to Adjust for Complex Survey Design in the National Survey of Adolescent
Males, with John Marcotte and Karol Krotki, briefing at National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development, Rockville, MD, April 2, 1992.
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Ku L. The Association of HIV/AIDS Education with Sexual Behavior and Condom Use Among Teenage
Men in the United States with Freya Sonenstein and Joseph Pleck, presented at the Seventh International
Conference on AIDS, Florence, Italy, June 1991.
Ku L. Patterns of HIV-Related Risk and Preventive Behaviors Among Teenage Men in the United States,
with Freya Sonenstein and Joseph Pleck, paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on AIDS,
San Francisco, CA, June 23, 1990.
Ku L. Trends in Teenage Childbearing, Pregnancy and Sexual Behavior, paper presented at the American
Sociological Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., August 15, 1990.
Ku L. Research Designs to Assess the Effect of WIC Participation by Pregnant Women on Reducing
Neonatal Medicaid Costs, briefing to Congressional staff, February 1987.
Ku L. Testimony about the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children
(WIC), with Frank Sasinowski, presented to House Education and Labor Committee on behalf of the
American Public Health Association, March 1983.
Media
Leighton Ku has extensive experience with electronic and print media. He has been interviewed by ABC,
NBC, CBS, Fox, PBS, National Public Radio, CNN, Bloomberg TV, BBC and other television or radio
news broadcasts and webcasts. He has been quoted or his research has been cited in the New York Times,
Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor,
Congressional Record, Huffington Post, Forbes, Fortune, US News and World Report, Politico, The Hill,
Buzzfeed, and trade publications, such as Modern Health Care, Nation’s Health, CQ HealthBeat, Kaiser
Health News, etc. He has been an online contributor to the Washington Post. He was a regular panelist
on a radio talk show about health policy, broadcast on WMAL in the Washington DC region. He has
been cited as an expert by PolitiFact and related fact-checking sources.
Service and Honors
Member, Executive Board, District of Columbia Health Benefits Exchange Authority (2012-now) (The
board governs the new health insurance exchange for the District of Columbia, based on the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act. This is a voluntary, unpaid position, appointed by the Mayor and
approved by the City Council. I was reappointed in 2018.) Chair of the Research Committee and the
Information Technology Committee. Led working groups that developed the financial sustainability plan
for the Exchange, dental plans, standardized benefit plans and changes required in light of threats to the
Affordable Care Act.
One of three top reviewers of the year, Milbank Quarterly, December 2019
Social Science Research Network, one of five most downloaded papers in field, Oct-Dec. 2018.
Commonwealth Fund, two of the top ten most frequently downloaded reports (2017).
Commonwealth Fund, one of top ten most frequently downloaded reports (2006).
Award for promoting racial and economic justice, Mississippi Center for Justice, 2005
Service award from the National WIC Directors Association (2002).
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Choice (the magazine of the American Library Association for academic publications), top ten academic
books of the year (1994)
Pew Health Policy Fellow, Boston University and Brandeis University, 1987-1990.
Public Health Service traineeship, University of California, Berkeley, 1976-79.
Other Service
Organizer, HPM Research and Policy Issues Seminar Series, 2020-21
Submitted expert witness declaration in a federal lawsuit regarding the President’s proclamation which
would have denied visas to those without approved forms of health insurance, Declaration in Support of
Plaintiffs' Motion for a Preliminary Injunction (regarding Presidential Proclamation on Visas and Health
Insurance), John Doe #1, et al. v Donald Trump, et al. United States District Court, District of Oregon,
filed November 8, 2019. [Resulted in an injunction prohibiting implementation of the visa denials.]
Submitted expert witness declaration in federal lawsuits on public charge regulations and health,
including La Clinica de la Raza, et al. v. Donald Trump, et al. United States District Court, Northern
District of California, September 1, 2019. Make the Road New York, et al v Ken Cucinelli, et al. United
States District Court, Southern District of New York, Sept. 9, 2019. State of New York, et al. v. U.S.
Department of Homeland Security, et al. United States District Court, Southern District of New York,
Sept. 9, 2019. [Ultimately resulted in injunctions prohibiting implementation of the public charge
regulations.]
Helped develop and cosigned amicus briefs on behalf of public health scholars in key federal lawsuits,
including King v Burwell (health insurance exchanges), Stewart v Azar (approval of Kentucky work
requirement waiver, versions 1 and 2), Gresham v Azar (approval of Arkansas work requirements). Texas
v Azar (constitutionality of ACA), Philbrick v Azar (approval of New Hampshire work requirement) and
Massachusetts v. US Dept of Health and Human Service (contraceptive mandate).
Parliamentarian, Milken Institute School of Public Health, 2019
Member, Technical Expert Panel, AHRQ Panel on Future of Health Services Research, RAND, 2019.
Served as expert witness in federal lawsuits on immigration and health, including State of Texas v United
States and Perez and State of New York v Trump (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). 2018.
Co-Director, PhD Health Policy Program. First at GW Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and
Administration, now at Milken Institute School of Public Health, 2015-now
Served as search committee member, chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, 2019 and
2020 and faculty, Dept. of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, 2019.
Search committee, Associate Provost for Graduate Studies, George Washington Univ, 2019
Member, AcademyHealth/NCHS Health Policy Fellowship Program board. 2016-17.
Affiliated faculty, Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health, 2015-now.
Advisory Board, Remaining Uninsured Access to Community Health Centers (REACH) Project, Univ. of
California Los Angeles, 2015-17.
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Member, DC Metro Tobacco Research and Instruction Consortium (MeTRIC). 2014- present
Member, Health Workforce Research Institute, GW, 2013-present.
Member, National Advisory Board, Public Policy Center of University of Iowa, 2014-18.
Chair/Vice Chair, Advocacy Interest Group, AcademyHealth, 2014-17.
Member, Advisory Committee on Non-Health Effects of the Affordable Care Act, Russell Sage
Foundation, Dec. 2013.
Member, Technical Expert Group on the Affordable Care Act and the National Survey of Family Growth,
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Nov. 2013
Member, Steering Committee, GW Institute of Public Policy, 2013-now
Member, External Review Committee for Department of Family Science for the University of Maryland
School of Public Health, 2012.
GW Faculty Senator, representing School of Public Health and Health Services, 2010-12.
Member of numerous University, School and Departmental committees. 2008-present.
Member or chair, numerous faculty and dean search committees, Milken Institute School of Public Health
and School of Nursing, George Washington University. 2008-present.
National Institutes of Health, member of various grant review study sections (1996-now).
Invited reviewer. Committee on National Statistics. National Academy of Sciences. Databases for
Estimating Health Insurance Coverage for Children. 2010-11.
Grant reviewer. Robert Wood Johnson Public Health and Law program. 2010.
Invited reviewer, Institute of Medicine report on family planning services in the U.S., 2009.
External reviewer for faculty promotion and tenure for Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical
School, Univ. of California at Los Angeles and at San Diego, Boston University, Baruch College, George
Mason University, University of Maryland, University of Iowa, Kansas University, Portland State
University, etc., 2008-present.
Submitted expert witness affidavits/declarations in federal, state and local lawsuits including: Texas v
United States and New York, et al. v. Trump (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), Wood, et al. v.
Betlach, (Medicaid cost sharing), Lozano v. City of Hazleton (immigrant rights), Spry, et al., v. Thompson
(Medicaid cost-sharing), Dahl v. Goodno (Medicaid cost-sharing), Newton-Nations, et al., v. Rogers
(Medicaid cost-sharing) and Alford v. County of San Diego (cost-sharing for a local health program).
Board Member and Treasurer, Alliance for Fairness in Reforms to Medicaid (2002-2008)
Urban Institute, founding member, Institutional Review Board (1997-2000)
National Health Research Institute (Taiwan’s NIH) grant reviewer (1999).
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Urban Institute, member, Diversity Task Force (1995)
Pew Health Policy Fellow, Boston University and Brandeis University, 1987-1990.
Consultant Services
Consortia of law practices, including Justice Action Center, Paul Weiss, National Health Law Program
and New York State Attorney General, 2019-2020
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, 2018
New Jersey State Attorney General, 2018
New York State Attorney General, 2017
First Hospital Foundation, Philadelphia PA, 2017
Wilmer Hale/Planned Parenthood Federation, 2017
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016
Professional Society Memberships and Service
AcademyHealth (formerly Association for Health Services Research), Program Selection Committees
(multiple years), chair Advocacy Interest Group (2014-16).
American Public Health Association
Association of Public Policy and Management, Program Selection Committees (many years)
Editorial Peer Review Service
Associate editor, BMC Health Services Research, 2009 – 2013.
Reviewer for numerous journals, including Health Affairs, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of
the American Medical Association, Milbank Quarterly, Pediatrics, American Journal of Public Health,
Inquiry, Medical Care, HSR, Medicare and Medicaid Research Review, American Journal of Preventive
Medicine, Family Planning Perspectives, Journal of Association of Public Policy and Management,
Nicotine and Tobacco Research, Maternal and Child Health, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and
Underserved, JAMA-Internal Medicine, Public Administration Review (1990 to now). In 2017, I
reviewed 16 manuscripts for journals. External reviewer for RAND Corporation, National Academy of
Science, Oxford Univ. Press, etc.
Awarded as one of three top reviewers of the year, Milbank Quarterly, December 2019
Public Health Practice Portfolio
Member, New York Fiscal Policy Institute Immigration Advisory Group (2021).
Member, Protecting Immigrant Families Research Group. 2019 to now.
Member, Executive Board, District of Columbia Health Benefits Exchange Authority (2012-now). The
board governs the new health insurance exchange for the District. (Nominated by the Mayor and
appointed by the City Council; reappointed in 2017). Chair of the IT and Eligibility Committee, Research
Committee and various working groups.
Member, Technical Expert Group, the Future of Health Services Research, for Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality, conducted by RAND. Jan. 2019.
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Expert Advisor, Russell Sage Foundation. Non-health effects of the Affordable Care Act. (2013).
Expert Advisor, Revisions to the National Survey of Family Growth, National Center for Health
Statistics, CDC (2013)
Member, Technical Advisory Committee for Monitoring the Impact of the Market Reform and Coverage
Expansions of the Affordable Care Act, sponsored by ASPE. (2013)
Member, Technical Advisory Group for the Design of the Evaluation of the Medicaid Expansion Under
the ACA, sponsored by ASPE (2012)
Member, National Workgroup on Integrating the Safety Net, National Academy of State Health Policy,
July 2011 – 2013.
Member, National Advisory group for Iowa Safety Net Integration project, 2011-2013.
Foundation for Child Development, Selection Committee, Young Scholars Program, 2008-2015.
Foundation for Child Development, Advisory Committee, Child Well-Being Index, 2008-present
Member, National Advisory Board, Center on Social Disparities on Health, University of California at
San Francisco, 2005-2008.
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, Member, Effective Programs and Research Task Force
(2000)
Doctoral Students Mentored/Advised
Dissertations Completed
Prof. Peter Shin (chair)
Prof. Megan McHugh
Dr. Sarah Benatar
Dr. Emily Jones (chair)
Dr. Saqi Cho (chair)
Dr. DaShawn Groves (chair)
Dr. Heitor Werneck
Dr. Brad Finnegan (chair)
Dr. Maliha Ali
Dr. Christal Ramos
Prof. Qian (Eric) Luo
Dr. Bill Freeman
Dr. Serena Phillips
Dr. Julia Strasser
Dr. Kristal Vardaman (chair)*
Dr. Brian Bruen
Dr. Xinxin Han (chair)*
Dr. Jessica Sharac (chair)*
Dr. Nina Brown
Dr. Mariellen Jewers (chair)*
Dr. Leo Quigley (chair)*
Dr. Erin Brantley
Dr. Roberto Delhy
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Dr. Chelsea Richwine
Dr. Shin Nozaki
Dr. Drishti Pillai (chair)*
In Progress
Brent Sandmeyer (chair)
Rachel Landis (chair)
Derrick Beasley (chair)
Thomas Hammang (TSPPPA general)
Kan Giannastasio
* I use the traditional term “chair,” although alternative terminology is that I was the “director”,
the faculty who worked most closely with the student and directs the dissertation.
Other Student Advising
Co-Director, Health Policy PhD Program
Faculty advisor, MPH, health policy. Provide guidance to about a dozen MPH students per cohort.
Faculty Advisor, GW Health Policy Student Association, 2016-now
Mentor to high school student at DC Schools without Walls, 2020-now
Executive Office of the Mayor – Mayor’s Office of Talent and Appointments
John A. Wilson Building | 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 600 | Washington, DC 20004
Dr. Leighton Ku
Dr. Leighton Ku is the Director and a Professor at The Center
for Health Policy Research at The George Washington
University (GWU). He is also a current member of the Health
Benefit Exchange Authority Executive Board in the District.
Dr. Ku is a nationally known health policy and health services
scholar with more than 25 years of experience. He has
examined topics such as national and state health reforms;
access to care for low-income populations; Medicaid;
preventive services; the health care safety net; cost and benefits of health services; and immigrant
health. Dr. Ku joined the Milken Institute School of Public Health at The George Washington
University as a full-time faculty member in 2008. However, he has held adjunct positions at
George Washington's School of Public Policy and Public Administration since the early 1990s.
Currently, Dr. Ku directs the multidisciplinary research Center for Health Policy at GWU. The
Center for Health Policy has a research portfolio of more than $25 million, with its members
including physicians, attorneys, economists, and health management experts. Prior to this, Dr. Ku
served as a senior fellow at the Washington based Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. He was
the principal researcher at the Urban Institute and a policy and budget analyst for the federal
nutrition program WIC (Women, Infants, and Children). Here, he focused on improving policies
for low- and moderate-income Americans. In addition, Dr. Ku has been a principal investigator
for many studies from the National Institutes of Health; Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ; and the Commonwealth Fund and
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
A Ward 1 resident, Dr. Leighton Ku earned his Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry from Harvard
University, his Master of Science in Nutritional Sciences from the University of California
Berkeley, his Master of Public Health from the University of California Berkeley, and his
Doctorate in Health Policy from Boston University. GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Executive Office of Mayor Muriel Bowser
Office of the General Counsel to the Mayor
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The John A. Wilson Building • 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW • Suite 300 • Washington, D.C. 20004 • Office (202) 724 -7681
To: Tommy Wells, Steve Walker
From: Betsy Cavendish
Date: July 28, 2023
Subject: Legal sufficiency review of Resolutions nominating Henry J. Aaron, Leighton
Ku, Gabriela Mossi, and Tamara Watkins as members of the Health Benefit Exchange Authority Executive Board
This is to Certify that this office has reviewed the above- referenced resolutions and
found them to be legally unobjectionable. If you have any questions in this regard, please do not
hesitate to call Vanessa Careiro, Deputy General Counsel, Executive Office of the Mayor, at 202-724-1303, or me at 202- 724-7681.
______________________________ Elizabeth A. (Betsy) Cavendish