Cameron Kaplan
University of Southern California, CA·Public Health & Epidemiology
When clinics closed and people stayed home during the COVID-19 pandemic, routine medical care stopped for millions. Missed checkups, screenings and refills matter most for people already living with chronic illnesses such as diabetes and high blood pressure, where steady monitoring prevents complications years later.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
Social Science
- Topics
preventive care
primary care access
chronic disease management
- Grants
- 1 known grant, last ended Sep 2026
What they work on
- Quantify how the COVID-19 pandemic changed racial and ethnic disparities in receipt of appropriate primary care, chronic disease management and downstream health outcomes, using longitudinal individual-level claims and billing data.
- Compare the effects of pandemic mitigation efforts between a commercially insured population and patients of a large urban safety-net county health system, focusing on people with diabetes mellitus or hypertension.
- Identify who was most likely to experience disruptions in care over time, and how long those disruptions lasted, by modeling predictors of missed primary and preventive services.
- Contextualize the secondary health effects of the pandemic through qualitative interviews with patients, providers, clinic staff and health system leaders about why preventive care went unused.
More about the research
This project measures how much primary and preventive care was lost, who lost the most, and what happened to their health afterward, using patient-level records that follow the same individuals over time.
Why it matters
Disruptions to routine care leave people with diabetes or hypertension at risk of complications that surface years later, and the burden falls hardest on low-income and minority patients. Findings could guide how health systems and policymakers direct resources during future emergencies, and inform efforts to rebuild primary and preventive care so that safety-net patients are not left further behind.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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The school
University of Southern California: 47 labs on PI Pages, $1.3B a year on research, 882 research doctorates a year.
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