Tatiane Santos, PhD, MPH

Tatiane Santos is an assistant professor at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She holds an Adjunct Senior Fellow appointment at the University of Pennsylvania Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and Penn Center for Public Health Initiatives. Dr. Santos is a fellow of AcademyHealth Public Voices Fellowship in partnership with the OpEd Project; and a member of the board of directors for the Louisiana Public Health Institute.

Dr. Santos’ research focuses broadly on three anchor institutions that contribute to population health and equity: a) state and local public health departments; b) hospitals; and c) primary care providers. Her research leverages the implementation of several policy reforms to understand how these three key actors contribute to advancing population health and health equity, alone and through their intersection.

She is the recipient of a 5-year National Institutes of Health career development K01 award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The project is titled “Not-For-Profit Hospital Community Benefit: Multi-Sectoral Collaboration in Local Health Planning to Improve Population Health, Equity, and Hospital Investment in the Social Determinants of Health”.

She also leads a study on behavioral health and substance use integration in primary care and the development of the CO Population Data Dashboard.