Annie E Larson, PhD is an investigator at OCHIN with a doctorate in Public Health Policy. Dr. Larson has over 15 years of public health work experience including policy work in state and local health departments, quantitative and qualitative research, applied epidemiology, and statistical and evaluation consulting for non-profits. She has extensive experience in analysis and data extraction using electronic health record data, administrative claims and eligibility data, vital statistics data, hospital discharge data, cancer registries, and community-level data. Her research expertise encompasses a range of health policy topics with a focus on the impact of health system reform on preventive and behavioral health service use and quality of care for underserved populations, with an emphasis on rural populations. She is currently funded by a career development award (K01) from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to evaluate the impact of the wide-scale expansion of telemedicine has affected the use of preventive healthcare services and quality of care among rural, low-income patients as compared to those residing in more urban areas.These findings will inform efforts to improve healthcare access and quality of care among low-income, rural patients and ensure disparities in health outcomes do not continue to widen. Publications: Luck J, Larson AE, Tong VT, Yoon J, Harvey SM, Oakley LP. Tobacco use by pregnant Medicaid beneficiaries: Validating a claims-based measure in Oregon. Preventive Medicine Reports, 2020; 19: 101039, doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2019.101039. PMID: 32435578. Zahnd WE, Bell N, Larson AE. Geographic, Racial/Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Inequities in Broadband Access. The Journal of Rural Health. 2021 Nov 18, doi: 10.1111/jrh.12635. Gold R, Larson AE, Sperl-Hillen J, Boston D, Sheppler C, Heintzman J, et al. Effect of clinical decision support tool for cardiovascular preventive care in community health centers: A randomized clinical trial. JAMA Network Open. 2022; 5(2): e2146519, doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.46519 Larson AE, Zahnd WE, Davis MM, Stange KC, Yoon J, Heintzman J, Harvey SM. Before and during pandemic telemedicine use: an analysis of rural and urban safety-net clinics. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2022, doi: 10.1016/jamepre.2022.012