Courtney Yarbrough
Asst Professor
Assistant Professor
Faculty, Health Policy and Management
Courtney R. Yarbrough is a Rollins Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management. Her research focus is health policy and the economics of health care. She specializes in pharmaceutical markets, analyzing the effects of public policies on the price and utilization of prescription drugs, especially in the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Benefit. She conducts research on policies directed at substance abuse with particular focus on opioid prescribing and access to treatment for substance use disorders. She also has research interests in the social determinants health, examining the impact of community social capital on health outcomes.
Contact Information
1518 Clifton Rd.
Atlanta , GA 30322
Phone: (404) 727-3416
Email: courtney.yarbrough@emory.edu
URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/courtney.yarbrough.1/bibliography/public/
Areas of Interest
- Addiction/Substance Abuse
- Health Disparities
- Health Economics
- Health Policy
- Social Determinants of Health
- Substance Use/Harm Reduction
Education
- PhD 2017, University of Georgia
Courses Taught
- HPM 553: Pharmaceutical Econ.& Policy
Publications
- Abraham AJ, Yarbrough CR, Harris SJ, Adams GB, Andrews, CM, 2021, Medicaid Expansion and Availability of Opioid Medications in the Specialty Substance Use Disorder Treatment System, Psychiatric Services, 72(2), 148-155
- Wetzel, M, von Esenwein S, Yarbrough CR, Hockenberry JM, 2021, Must-Use Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Laws are Associated with Increases in Bedridden Days, Health Services Research, forthcoming,
- Graetz I, Yarbrough CR, Hu X, Howard DH, 2020, Association of Mandatory-Access Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs With Opioid Prescriptions Among Medicare Patients Treated by a Medical or Hematologic Oncologist, JAMA Oncology, 6(7), 1102-1103
- Harris SJ, Abraham AJ, Andrews CM, Yarbrough CR, 2020, Gaps In Access To Opioid Use Disorder Treatment For Medicare Beneficiaries, Health Affairs, 39(2), 233-237
- Yarbrough, CR, 2020, How Protected Classes in Medicare Part D Influence U.S. Drug Sales, Utilization, and Price, Health Economics, 29(5), 608-623
- Yarbrough CR, Abraham AJ, Adams GB, 2019, The Relationship of County Opioid Epidemic Severity to Changes in Access to Substance Use Disorder Treatment (2009-2017), Psychiatric Services, 71(1), 12-20
- Hockenberry JM, Joski P, Yarbrough CR, Druss BG, 2019, Trends in Treatment and Spending for Patients Receiving Outpatient Treatment of Depression in the United States, 1998-2015, JAMA Psychiatry, 76(8), 810-817
- Yarbrough, CR, 2018, Prescription drug monitoring programs produce a limited impact on painkiller prescribing in Medicare Part D, Health Services Research, 53(2), 671-689
- Yarbrough, CR, 2017, Plan generosity in health insurance exchanges: What the Affordable Care Act can teach us about top-down versus bottom-up policy implementation, Journal of Public Policy, 37(1), 55-83