William Schpero
Associate Professor
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Schpero is an assistant professor and health economist at Weill Cornell Medicine who studies Medicaid and the U.S. health care safety net, using empirical methods to identify policy levers that reduce racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities. As Associate Director of the Cornell Health Policy Center and the Cornell Center for Health Equity, he co-founded the Medicaid Data Learning Network and the Medicaid Insights Colloquium to foster data-driven policy dialogue. His research—published in outlets such as NEJM, JAMA, and Health Affairs and cited widely in major media—has examined waste in health care and the impacts of the Affordable Care Act. He teaches in Cornell’s executive MBA/MS in Healthcare Leadership and mentors students across health policy and medical training, bringing a mix of rigorous economics, policy engagement, and practical collaboration with funders like the Commonwealth Fund and NIH. An award-winning Yale-trained scholar and former Dartmouth fellow, he balances academic rigor with efforts to translate evidence into actionable policy.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
A.B. Biology, Government, A.B. Biology, Government at Dartmouth CollegeM.Phil. Health Policy and Management (Economics Concentration), M.Phil. Health Policy and Management (Economics Concentration) at Yale UniversityM.P.H. Health Policy, M.P.H. Health Policy at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice
Github Skills (7)
stata10
fips9
notification7
push-notifications5
windows1
linux1
text-editor1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
wschpero/statapush
Feb 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:13 releases, 36 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 2 months
pushpush-notificationsnotificationsnotificationsending
wschpero/statastates
Feb 2017 - Feb 2022
Stata module to add U.S. state identifiers to dataset.
Contributions:9 releases, 8 commits, 19 pushes in 5 years
statafips
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