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null Claire Boone, PhD, MPH

Associate Investigator, RI-MUHC

Cardiovascular Health Across the Lifespan Program

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University

 

Keywords

health economics • health policy • clinical decision-making • quasi-experimental methods

Research Focus

My research focuses on understanding how clinicians make decisions, and how to improve health care delivery. As a health economist, I study the real-world impacts of healthcare delivery using big data and quasi-experimental methods - tools that help us learn about cause and effect even when we can’t run a traditional experiment - to evaluate policies like financial incentives for doctors or new tools like AI decision support. For example, I’ve studied what happens when health systems introduce quality metrics or what happens when patients are reminded about their preventative care appointments. My work also explores how access to care and quality of treatment vary by factors like gender, income, and geography.

Selected Publications

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  • Boone, C., Colina, C., & Pope, D. (2025). Antidepressant Use Before, During, and After Pregnancy. JAMA Network Open, 8(1), e2457324. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.57324

  • Gracner, T., Boone, C., & Gertler, P. J. (2024). Exposure to sugar rationing in the first 1000 days of life protected against chronic disease. Science, 386(6725), 1043–1048. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adn5421

  • Boone, C., Zink, A., Wright, B. J., & Robicsek, A. (2024). Value-Based Contracting in Clinical Care. JAMA Health Forum, 5(8), e242020. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2020

  • Boone, C. E., Gertler, P. J., Barasa, G. M., Gruber, J., & Kwan, A. (2023). Can a private sector engagement intervention that prioritizes pro-poor strategies improve healthcare access and quality? A randomized field experiment in Kenya. Health Policy and Planning, 38(9), 1006–1016. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10309694

  • Boone, C. E., Celhay, P., Gertler, P., Gracner, T., & Rodriguez, J. (2022). How scheduling systems with automated appointment reminders improve health clinic efficiency. Journal of Health Economics, 82, 102598. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2022.102598