Aparna Soni, a doctoral candidate in business economics and public policy in the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, is one of nearly 20 scholars whose work is being supported by the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy.
The Horowitz Foundation has awarded Soni a $7,500 grant in support of her research project, “Reducing Health Disparities among People Diagnosed with Cancer: The Role of Public Health Insurance Expansions.”
This is the 20th year that the Horowitz Foundation has provided graduate education funding in the social sciences. Its highly competitive grants are among the largest available to social science students.
Other grant recipients this year also are studying timely issues, such as racial disparity in police action shootings, alleviating homelessness and immigration enforcement.
Through her research, Soni explores how policies and incentives can improve health outcomes and reduce risky behaviors in the population. This grant will support her research project assessing the impacts of public health insurance expansions on health outcomes for people with cancer.
Last year, she was the corresponding author of a research letter in JAMA Oncology which reported that the number of newly diagnosed cancer patients who were uninsured fell by one-third in the first year of implementation of the Affordable Care Act.