Assistant Professor of International Affairs
Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management
Faculty Affiliate of Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
Dr. Ishtiaque Fazlul is an applied microeconomist working on data-driven and evidence-based policy design in the fields of health and education. His research evaluates how policies and institutions affect health and education and explores ways of better measuring policy-relevant variables in these fields. Dr. Fazlul’s work explores how social factors, financing systems, and organizational structures and processes affect health and education. He has published articles on the impact of federal and state health policies on access to and disparities in care, risky health behavior, the social determinants of health, maternal and child health, global health, measurement of student disadvantage, and school funding. In recent years, Dr. Fazlul has worked on the effect of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its various components on health insurance coverage, coverage disparity, and healthcare utilization; the effect of child marriage on later life risky health behavior, including tobacco consumption and obesity; and the lack of accuracy in K-12 school level poverty measurement and possible alternative measures of poverty and disadvantage at schools.
