Nandita Mitra
University of Pennsylvania · Rehabilitation Medicine
Active 1975–2026
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About
Nandita Mitra, Ph.D., is a Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine. She holds the position of Senior Scholar at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and is an Associate Member of the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, she is a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute in Health Economics. Dr. Mitra serves as the Director of Statistics for the Masters in Health Policy Research Graduate Program and the Director of Statistics Didactics in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the Chair of the Graduate Group in Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Vice Chair for Faculty Professional Development in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics. Her educational background includes an AB in Mathematics from Brown University, an MA in Biostatistics from the University of California at Berkeley, and a PhD in Biostatistics from Columbia University. Her research focuses on statistical methods in medical research, including causal inference, cost-effectiveness analysis, and treatment effect estimation, as evidenced by her numerous publications in these areas.
Research topics
- Medicine
- Environmental health
- Business
- Computer Science
- Economics
- Internal medicine
- Nursing
- Political Science
- Demography
- Agricultural economics
Selected publications
JAMA Network Open · 2020 · 659 citations
Importance: The Press Ganey Outpatient Medical Practice Survey is used to measure the patient experience. An understanding of the patient- and physician-related determinants of the patient experience may help identify opportunities to improve health care delivery and physician ratings. Objective: To evaluate the associations between the patient experience as measured by scores on the Press Ganey survey and patient-physician racial/ethnic and gender concordance. Design, Setting, and Participants:…
Health Affairs · 2020 · 240 citations
Interventions that address socioeconomic determinants of health are receiving considerable attention from policy makers and health care executives. The interest is fueled in part by expected returns on investment. However, many current estimates of returns on investment are likely overestimated, because they are based on pre-post study designs that are susceptible to regression to the mean. We present a return-on-investment analysis that is based on a randomized controlled trial of Individualize…
JAMA Network Open · 2020 · 135 citations
Importance: The effect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion on cancer care delivery and outcomes is unknown. Patients with cancer are a high-risk group for whom treatment delays are particularly detrimental. Objective: To examine the association between Medicaid expansion and changes in insurance status, stage at diagnosis, and timely treatment among patients with incident breast, colon, and non-small cell lung cancer. Design, Setting, and Participants: This qua…
Health Affairs · 2020 · 59 citations
In January 2017 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, implemented an excise tax of 1.5 cents per ounce on beverages sweetened with sugar or artificial sweeteners. Small independent stores are an important yet understudied setting. They are visited frequently in urban and low-income areas, and sugary beverages are among the most commonly purchased items in them. We compared changes in beverage prices and purchases before and twelve months after tax implementation at small independent stores in Philadelphia…
Health Services Research · 2020 · 58 citations
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the effects of a standardized community health worker (CHW) intervention on hospitalization. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING: Pooled data from three randomized clinical trials (n = 1340) conducted between 2011 and 2016. STUDY DESIGN: The trials in this pooled analysis were conducted across diseases and settings, with a common study design, intervention, and outcome measures. Participants were patients living in high-poverty regions of Philadelphia and were predominantly Medicaid…
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Timothy R. Rebbeck
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Irene Orlow
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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Klaus J. Busam
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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Colin B. Begg
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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Marianne Berwick
University of New Mexico
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Bruce K. Armstrong
University of Sydney
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Roberto Zanetti
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Anne Kricker
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