Tiffany Lemon

Dr. Lemon is an epidemiologist focused on investigating how social and institutional health policy affect health care access and patient outcomes--those measured in the clinic and beyond. She also studies how disruptions in insurance coverage impact health care utilization and patient outcomes, particularly among people living with HIV and people with justice-involvement.

Dr. Lemon serves as assistant professor of health services research at the Arizona State University's College of Health Solutions and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Health Information and Research and the Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center.

Dr. Lemon’s current work leverages longitudinal data and causal inference methodologies to estimate the effects of health insurance coverage on patient outcomes including health care utilization, HIV disease progression, and health-related quality of life. Using the target trial framework, Lemon emulates hypothetical randomized trials to reduce the impact of biases and to assess the comparative effectiveness of health access strategies when resources or support for research in real-world settings are lacking. 

Prior to her current role, Dr. Lemon earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry at Louisiana State University as a LA-STEM Research Scholar, a master's of public health degree in global epidemiology from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health, a doctorate in population health sciences from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship as a T32 trainee at the Center for Global Health and Massachusetts General Hospital.