Jeffrey Lienert, PhD
Jeffrey Lienert, PhD
Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship, Health Services Research
Research Interests
Jeffrey Lienert, PhD, is an Advanced Fellow in Health Services Research at the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP) at the Crescenz VA Medical Center and the Nudge Unit at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Lienert earned his PhD in social epidemiology at the University of Oxford and the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Lienert’s research areas of expertise are two-fold: electronic medical records (EMR) and social networks analysis (SNA). His dissertation at Oxford University combined these foci to examine how patients co-present in a British hospital ward affected each other’s health through the spread of infectious agents and through social influence mechanisms. Moving forward, Dr. Lienert plans to incorporate VA EMR data into these approaches. This will involve a combination of secondary analyses centered around natural experiments within the VA (e.g. the effect of VA priority levels on health outcomes) as well as randomized clinical trials to ameliorate inequities uncovered through his other work.
Dr. Lienert is also involved in health equity work with colleagues examining the effect of precarity on antibiotic use resistance in low and middle income countries.
His research has been recognized by the National Human Genome Research Institute, International Network for Social Network Analysis, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Society for Epidemiologic Research, and the American Sociological Association.
Select Recent Publications
Haenssgen M, Charoenboon N, Mayxay M, Reed-Tsochas F, Jones C, Kosaikanont R, Praphattong P, Lubell Y, Newton P, Keomany S, Wetheim H, Lienert J, Xayavong T, Khine Zaw Y, Greer R, Althaus T, Nedsuwan S, Intralawan D, Wangrangsimakul T, Cheah PY, Limmathurotsakul D, and Ariana P. 2018. Research protocol: antibiotics and activity spaces: An exploratory study of behaviour, marginalisation, and knowledge diffusion. BMJ Global Health. 3(2):e00621.
Lienert J, Marcum CS, Finney J, Reed-Tsochas F, and Koehly L. 2017. Social influence on 5-year survival in chemotherapy co-presence network. Network Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/nws.2017.16.
Website: https://jlienert.github.io
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8534-8377
