Professor of Health Policy
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Brian Kaskie is a doctoral gerontologist who examines federal and state health policies (statutes, regulations, decisions) that support and protect older Americans. He possess subject matter expertise with Medicare, Medicaid and the Older Americans Act and is skilled in research design, data collection, and both quantitative and qualitative analysis. He has served as a National Institute on Aging pre-doctoral fellow, an Agency for Health Research and Quality post-doctoral fellow, and was appointed as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow assigned to the United States Senate, Special Committee on Aging. He also served as Editor-in-Chief of the National Academy on Aging’s Public Policy and Aging Report. His research and schoalrship historically has focused on the identification and analysis of health and other public policies pertaining to older persons and he has been appointed as a primary investigator and co-investigator on projects funded by the Agency for Health Research and Quality, the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute on Mental Health as well as state, private, and non-profit organizations. More recently, Brian has become nationally recognized for work focusing on the increasing use of cannabis among America’s aging population. Since 2015, he has led the COPS team in securing competitive grants and contracts and has published more than twenty manuscripts examining cannabis use among older adults (https://cannabisandolderpersonsstudy.lab.uiowa.edu/)
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