Additional Title: Bernard Becker Professor, WashU School of Public Health
Timothy McBride is an influential health policy analyst and leading health economist shaping the national agenda in health insurance, health reform, rural health care, Medicare and Medicaid policy, health economics, and access to health care.
In addition to several dozen scholarly publications, he produced the book “Transdisciplinary Public Health: Education, Research and Practice” co-edited with Debra Haire-Joshu, as well as a collection of reports, white papers and other policy products that have had an important impact on the national policy debate.
McBride has been active in testifying before Congress and consulting with policy constituents on health reform, health insurance issues and rural health policy. For over 30 years, he has been a member of the Rural Policy Research Institute Health Panel that provides expert advice on rural health issues to the U.S. Congress and other policymakers.
In addition, McBride has served on various national boards, including the Midwest Comparative Effectiveness Public Advisory Council for the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, and the St. Louis City Board of Health. He served as Chair of the Missouri’s MOHealthNET Oversight Committee for nine years. McBride was awarded the Outstanding Researcher of the Year by the National Rural Health Association in 2012, and in 2024 received the Rural Excellence in Advocacy Award from the Missouri Rural Health Association. McBride served as the inaugural Associate Dean for the Master’s of Public Health program at the Brown School from 2008 to 2012.
McBride leads the Rural Health Policy Lab.
Education & Training
PhD, Economics: University of Wisconsin – Madison
MS, Economics: University of Wisconsin – Madison
BA, Economics and Journalism: University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Research Interests
Health policy and health economics
Health insurance, Medicare and Medicaid policy
Rural health care
Health reform
Social Security and pensions
Latest Publications
- CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: In this randomized clinical trial of stroke survivors, participants in both groups experienced improvements in community participation. COMPASS participants had greater improvements […]
- CONCLUSIONS: A home-based occupational therapist-led intervention that helps stroke survivors transition to home by reducing barriers in the home and improving self-management could decrease the […]
- CONCLUSIONS: Overall, these results suggest that hospital payment policy and payment model development should consider hospital fixed-to-total-cost ratios particularly in settings where economies of scale […]