Tyler Malone Email & Phone Number

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

As a Principal Investigator with the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, I lead multiple research projects for the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program.Project #1: Alternative Methods for Defining Rural Hospital Service Area MarketProject #2: Development of a Post-COVID Hospital Financial Distress Index

Chapel Hill, NC

• Project #1: Patterns of Inpatient Care-Seeking by Rural Residents
• Provided updated evidence about rural hospital bypass rates, including bypass rates for surgical care and changes in bypass rates follow rural hospital mergers.Project #2: Changes in Inpatient Volume at Rural Hospitals
• Compared changes in inpatient volume between rural and urban hospitals, assessed whether changes in inpatient services have been greater in rural hospitals that serve disadvantaged communities, and investigated whether.
• Explored the distribution of HCC risk scores among rural versus urban Medicare beneficiaries and tested whether risk scores are differentially associated with healthcare utilization between rural and urban.
• Estimated the effect of the swing bed payment standardization methodology as compared to the SNF PPS payment standardization methodology on the standardized cost of post-acute care provided in CAH swing beds.Project.
• Assessed the effect of rural hospital closures on local economic measures such as per-capita income and unemployment rate.Project #6: Changes in Rural Hospital Revenue

Ann Arbor, MI

• Studied impact of mental health on academic and athletic performance of collegiate athletes as part of the Athletes Connected program
• Evaluated effectiveness of mental health interventions to promote help-seeking and self-care
• Analyzed randomized control trial data and longitudinal dataAthletes Connected website: http://athletesconnected.umich.edu/

Ann Arbor, MI

• Performed statistical analysis to identify baseline and time-varying predictors of suicidal ideation in medical interns as part of the Intern Health Study
• Developed skills in the analysis of longitudinal and categorical data
• Conducted generalized estimated equations (GEE) estimation for marginal modelsIntern Health Study website: https://www.srijan-sen-lab.com/intern-health-study

Chapel Hill, NC

• Provided statistics and programming consulting services to UNC graduate and undergraduate researchershttps://odum.unc.edu/

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

• Project #1: Evaluation of a Novel Behavioral Health Home with Comprehensive Primary Care for People with Serious Mental Illness
• Examined whether individuals with severe mental illness in a behavioral health home with comprehensive primary care services experienced better clinical and utilization outcomes than individuals with severe mental.

Chapel Hill, NC

• Course #1: Public Health Concepts and Systems Thinking (Summer 2018)
• Assisted with instruction of 35 online executive graduate students
• Planned and taught a lecture on genomics applications in public health
• Created weekly quizzes to assess student understanding of course material
• Graded student-designed community health improvement plansCourse #2: Introduction to the U.S. Health Care System (Spring 2018)
• Assisted with instruction of 92 graduate and undergraduate students

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Health Policy And Management - Economics Minor

Activities and Societies: PhD Program Advisory Committee, PhD Peer Mentor, Master's Thesis Reader, Senior Honor Thesis Co-Advisor

Master Of Science - Ms, Biostatistics, Cumulative Gpa: 3.92 / 4.0

Activities and Societies: Munger Interdisciplinary Graduate Living Community

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Cumulative Gpa: 4.0 / 4.0

Activities and Societies: Honors Program, Juliano Community Ecology Lab, Kerman-Yamskulna Linear Algebra Research Group, Hammond Genomics.